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Gudimalkapur Flower Market Hyderabad

May 122012

Gudimalkapur Flower Market- Morning Ragas with Colors Photography ka keeda is slowly spreading in my mind-body and soul and I visited Gudimalkapur flower market early morning to see some action with flowers. A little history first-I had thought that I had overcome it after I mothballed my film Nikon and after that every single point and shoot camera that we had been monopolized by our daughter. But then I read about Nikon D7000 and got hooked again. Not that I am very good at photography I just point and shoot and then pray that the subject would have understood [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, Incredible India Tagged with: Bazaars of India, colors of India, Flowers, Gudimalkapur, street market, Streets of India 10 Responses »

Save Peerancheru Lake – An initiative by PBEL City Residents

May 052012

How Residents of PBEL City Got Together to Clean The Peerancheru Lake While your lazy bones Desi Traveler was struggling to get out of bed on Saturday morning, some of the environmentally conscious residents of PBEL City decided to get up early on a weekend and clean the Peerancheru lake to bring back its pristine glory. The lake that has a good population of water birds like Ducks, Egrets, Pond Heron, Painted Stork, Kingfishers etc. But unfortunately due to pollution and dumping of waste it has become dirty. Well not any more today morning more than 10 of our residents and some staff [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Andhra Pradesh & Telangana Tagged with: citizen action, PBEL, Peerancheru 5 Responses »

Birdwatching at Mrugavani National Park Hyderabad Telangana

May 012012

A Visit To Mruguvani National Park for Birdwatching Recently I went again to Mrugavani National Park in the morning, I got up without an alarm at 7 am on Sunday and thinking this is some divine sign decided to hit the road. It is only about 5 km from our home and is one of the last surviving green lungs for the city of Nizams. It is approachable both from Mehdipattnam via Lunger House and Hitech City via Outer ring road on the way to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport Shamshabad. You take exit 18 on the airport highway on the Vikarabad [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, Wildlife and Nature Tagged with: birding, birds, Bulbul, Chameleon, Chilkur, Jungle, Monitor Lizard, Mrugavani, Sunbird 24 Responses »

Purple Sunbird is not Hummingbird

Apr 282012

Hummingbird vs Sunbird in India As mentioned in the earlier post I was able to capture the hummingbird or more accurately the purple sunbird in the camera. Why I say Sunbird is that Hummingbirds are only naturally found in the Americas, what we have in India are Sunbirds. They seem to have developed independently and as their habitat and feeding habits are similar they look and behave very similar to each other. But scientifically there are no Hummingbirds found in India or Asia for that matter. I am totally amazed at the way nature works. Two continents separated by thousands [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, Wildlife and Nature Tagged with: birding, PBEL, Sunbird 2 Responses »

Birds Around PBEL II

Apr 222012

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.

Posted by Prasad Np Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, Wildlife and Nature Tagged with: birding, birds, PBEL, Peerancheru, Sunbird 4 Responses »

Birds Around Us in Hyderabad

Apr 152012

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…]

Posted by Prasad Np Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, Wildlife and Nature Tagged with: birding, birds, PBEL City 9 Responses »

Essence Of Old Hyderabad-II

Apr 082012

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

Posted by Prasad Np Andhra Pradesh & Telangana Tagged with: old city, Street Photography, Twin Cities 1 Response »

Essence Of Old Hyderabad

Apr 012012

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…]

Posted by Prasad Np Andhra Pradesh & Telangana Tagged with: old city, Tandoor, Twin Cities 1 Response »

Bird watching in Hyderabad At ICRISAT- part II

Mar 102012

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…]

Posted by Prasad Np Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, Wildlife and Nature Tagged with: birding, birds, GHAC, ICRISAT 5 Responses »

Hiking in Peerancheru Boulders

Mar 032012

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…]

Posted by Prasad Np Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, Trekking and Exploring Tagged with: GHAC, Hiking, PBEL, Peerancheru 5 Responses »

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