Prasad Np

Running the Rat race, scheming to swim with the sharks. Wondering what is left in rat race after conquering the corner office. Writes India Travel Blog desi Traveler, with stories and pictures from India.

Cut your food bill: Plant a garden

Apr 242012
 

Cut your food bill: Plant a garden I have myself tried growing tomatoes in past successfully. I must say the tomatoes were much more juicy and tasty than anything I have bought in a store. I am seriously thinking of starting an herb garden. I am sure the Missus will be happy to see some leaves as our current Botanical adventures are limited to Cacti and Succulents, started as an approach to be frugal with water and yet enjoy the beautiful plants. Check some of mine and some friends cacti plants here. Hopefully I will be able to post some [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Birds Around PBEL II

Apr 222012
 
Birds Around PBEL II

Observing Birds in City Bulbul The humming bird remains elusive and is beating the fastest shutter speed I have tried. It seems Shutter priority mode is is not the thing to do. But I was lucky again and caught the Indian Bulbul and a Pied Bushchat enjoying a worm.  The Early Bird Catches The Worm I will continue to try to shoot the Hummingbird, any suggestions on camera settings would be welcome. To read the earlier post in this series please click here Thanks for reading, do leave a comment.

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Karma Chameleon

Apr 212012
 
Karma Chameleon

I started my day with the hopes of capturing a few photos of the elusive dark blue Hummingbird that I have been spotting every day in the flower bed. But it has been proving too fast to be captured on my phone the only equipment I have when I come down every morning to drop my daughter for her school bus. So today I came down armed with my Nikon D7000 and 55-300 lens hoping to be faster than the hummingbird.  But the hummingbird had other plans and had decided to take off the moment it saw me equipped [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Birds Around Us in Hyderabad

Apr 152012
 
Birds Around Us in Hyderabad

Birds around  us give happiness without any expectations As part of my project to photograph birds around  us our apartment complex  I have clicked photos of the bird that visit the complex. I spoke to the Customer Service team of the complex and we are collaborating to install some bird nests and bird feeders build by Nature Forever Society, whose founder Mohammad Dilawar was featured in Time Magazine some time back. The idea is to try to provide a habitat to these birds so that they keep on coming to the complex. I have been able to spot the [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Essence Of Old Hyderabad-II

Apr 082012
 
Essence Of Old Hyderabad-II

Making Bread  This photo is being submitted as part of Thursday challenge with the topic Hands. I clicked this picture during a visit to the Old Hyderabad with TCPC when we were trying to capture the Essence of Old Hyderabad. Check the other photos by clicking here  

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A Visit to Medak Church, Fort and Pocharam Sanctuary

Apr 032012
 
A Visit to Medak Church, Fort and Pocharam Sanctuary

Road Trip to Medak From Hyderabad With GHAC The Medak Cathedral The joys of travel are hard to explain, words cannot capture the thrill of discovering new lands, photos struggle to do justice to the bounty of nature. Yet here I am trying to write a blog about an incredible travel. I guess the next best thing to travel to distant lands is to write and share the stories of falling in love again and again with the places one discover. I specially enjoy driving trips as they give me both flexibility and control not only on the destination [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Essence Of Old Hyderabad

Apr 012012
 
Essence Of Old Hyderabad

We are getting  more and more alienated with our roots and forgetting our heritage, so every once in a while I get a bug to visit old city of Hyderabad to connect to the glorious past of the city. So this Saturday with a group  of TCPC  shutterbugs we decided to visit the old city behind the  Salarjung museum. The meeting point was Darush Shifa Jamia Masjid which has  pure white  presence in sea of color around it. I have never been in this part of the city and was very excited about the visit.  The group leader Rahul [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Bird watching in Hyderabad At ICRISAT- part II

Mar 102012
 
Bird watching in Hyderabad At ICRISAT- part II

We again visited ICRISAT campus with Purushotham Rudraraju  who was leading the GHAC group. ICRISAT is one of the best places for Bird Watching in Hyderabad. Today was not a very successful day from clicking photographs of the birds point of view even though we spotted 50+ species of the birds in the ICRISAT Campus. The lake that was brimming with water last month was almost empty and most of the water birds have already left. The branches of the tree that used to bend due to the weight of the birds was mostly deserted. Hopefully this year we will [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Hiking in Peerancheru Boulders

Mar 032012
 
Hiking in Peerancheru Boulders

Today in the morning I went for hiking in Peerancheru boulders near our apartment with a GHAC group. My wife was kind enough to make a cup of tea for me at 6 am in the morning.  We both had the tea together and then I left for the meeting point with the GHAC group that was coming.  We started the day with the introduction round by forming the circle and Shraddha the group leader gave instructions like: ·         No littering, ·         No talking loudly or disturbing any birds or animals in area ·         No breaking away from the group etc. Under [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Half Day In Hong Kong

Feb 252012
 

desi Goes for Half Day Tour of Hong Kong What is it with travel that makes you addicted? Is it the new places you discover? Or is it the small treasures you keep on accumulating from one flea market in a distant town to another? Or is it the bragging rights one gets for the number of vivid stamps on the passport? Or is it the collage of photos clicked by strangers for you that gives one high that can beat the evening tipple? Well, I guess it is all or a mixture of all of them.  For me [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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