Parushni

Coming to Life

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:30 -0800

Just messing around.

Sunrise 2

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:57 -0800

Yet another image taken in the summer of 2008 at Jim Corbett National Park in India.

Ladder

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:46 -0800

Figured it was about time I resurrected this photoblog

Stephanie

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:10 -0800

I just noticed I don't actually have any pictures of people up here... so here's something that I shot a few weeks ago.
This is Stephanie

In Dreams

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:37 -0800

Shot at Jim Corbett National Park in India.

This is a male cheetal... seen some time in the evening on our way back to the camp.

Saris

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:35 -0800

This is from Amritsar in the state of Punjab.

Taken at a sari shop.

More Eyes

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:33 -0800

Yet another image taken while I was at Jim Corbett National Park in India.

This is a Juvenile Changeable Hawk Eagle... as improbably as that sounds.

his guy sat around for about 10 minute while we shot off 100+ pictures of him. I have another of him looking right at me... and a few of him drinking water...
pretty good stuff.

500mm at 1/30th of second... not too bad for a bean bag, huh?

Kitty Cat

Sun, 25 May 2008 18:13 -0800

I just love this girl's expression... it's so very cat-like... I guess it is appropriate after all... but it's just odd to think of a beast that could rip your head off with a swipe of its paw being all cute.
Taken from the back of an elephant.

Tiger Walking

Sun, 25 May 2008 17:50 -0800

Tigers! The reason everyone goes to Corbett National Park.
We were there for about 5 days and had 7 tiger sightings, which is pretty cool, because some people end up going to Corbett and not seeing a single tiger. That we were able to shoot as many pictures of the tigers that we did is pretty frickin' cool too.
Anyway... shot from elephant-back, after two nights of no electricity/my laptop being rained on, so I wasn't able to transfer my old pictures... which meant that while I actually wanted to just click pictures in the high-speed burst mode at 6 frames per second... I actually couldn't because I had barely enough space for 40 or so frames spread over 4 or 5 CF cards... so I had to really choose which shots to take, and then while the tiger was still there, and I should have been shooting, I had to quickly review and delete the bad ones to make room.
thankfully, my laptop dried up that night, and the power came back too... so I wasn't in that situation again.

Stork in Flight

Sun, 25 May 2008 17:25 -0800

This too was taken on elephant back during an evening safari.
I tried any number of times to get these guys in flight... this is possibly the clearest photo I have of them.
It's surprisingly hard to hold a 500mm lens steady while sitting on the back of an elephant that would rather just wander and eat grass.
I can't remember the exact name of the type of stork... though I think it may be a black stork

Langur

Sun, 25 May 2008 17:04 -0800

This too was taken at Jim Corbett National Park in India.
On this particular evening, just after a large downpour, with the dark clouds still hanging in the sky, we left on our elephant-back safari in the evening... in search of tigers.
On the way we passed under a tree with a few langurs. I got a few frames of this gal, perfectly posed, with the beautiful gray behind her... We were on the elephant... so just barely a few feet away.

Sunrise over Corbett

Sun, 25 May 2008 05:43 -0800

This was taken early in the morning as the sun was just starting to rise over Jim Corbett National Park

Eye of the Tiger

Thu, 22 May 2008 10:21 -0800

Another picture of the tiger we saw on the second day at Corbett.

Damn color profiles!... this photo was so much more saturated in photoshop and in my camera... it looks so washed out now.

Tiger Staring

Thu, 22 May 2008 10:13 -0800

This is a picture of the first tiger we saw at Jim Corbett National Park. It was on the second day we got there. It was actually just a little bit off to the side of the road... and man! the crowd of safari vehicles that gathered around to see it... damn... I thought we were going to get seriously mauled when it got pissed at all the noise and potentially scary things...
we were about 10 or 15 feet when this was taken... there was one vehicle beside us (between us and the tiger) and a whole line of vehicles ahead and behind us... so we were completely blocked in...

This tiger is about 2 years old.
As are all the other tigers I was able to photograph.

Froggy Love

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 23:39 -0800