Award: A Present For Your Blog

ARIPI DE FLUTURE has awarded me "A Present For Your Blog" :) What a cool present, isn't it? She's just amazing at photography. Check her blog out.

I am passing the present on to the great blogs mentioned in the table below. I didn't know that I know so many great people! Check them out randomly if you don't have time to check all of them :) The list is sorted by blog name.

Blog Name	Author
- A TRAVES DE MI LENTE -	Carina Felice
2050 A Journey	Jeevan
A Certain Kind of Woman	Devika Jyothi
A Little Of This And That	Gramma Ann
a piece of nature at home	JM
A Wandering Mind	Anu
A&T BIRDING	The Abbot
Abbey Of Astoend	The Abbot
abirritante fotográfico	Ferreira-Pinto
Abstract Deductions	Devika Jyothi
amatamari©	amatamari©
AMAZING	Babli
Anca Photography	Anca Erdei
Ann's Photo Blog	Gramma Ann
Ann's Quotes and Things	Gramma Ann
Around the world- Megha Chhatbar	Megha Chhatbar
Art on Sketchbook - by Megha Chhatbar	Megha Chhatbar
Art Propelled	Robyn Gordon
Artesanatos da Nossa Casa	Nice Lima
Babzy Photos Blog	Babzy
bAREeYEDsUN	O'Dasor De
Beyond All Measure	Beyond All Measure
Birds2blog	Pete Woodruff
Blog de sarbatori	Valy
Bonjour Luxembourg	Cezar and Léia
bophapursat	bophapursat
boylerpf	Alicia
Brincando de Fotografar	Nice Lima
Butterflies and Candles	Gramma Ann
Cedar Key (Florida) Daily Photo	Jacob
Chandler A to Z	Thérèse
Chandler Addendum	Thérèse
colour lines	:: flyingstars ::
Comfort Spiral	Cloudia
Creative Confections	Jacob
Dagrun's photos	Dagrun
Daily haiku	joo
Dakota Recipes	Margaret Cloud
DANSONS SELON MTA	MTA
Deepak M C	Deepak Chhatbar
Desert Colors	Diane AZ
Dream Chymecindy	Dream Chymecindy
Dusty Lens - North Metro and Beyond	Dusty Lens
Evry Daily Photo	Olivier Perrin
Evry Videos	Olivier Perrin
Exposemaximum	DEEPAK ACHARYA
Florida Fotos	Jacob
frozen moments	Indrani
gaelikaa - Out of Ireland, into India	gaelikaa
gaelikaa's diary	gaelikaa
Glennis's Blog page ................... Welcome.	Glennis
Glennis's other blog.	Glennis
Hart & Soul	Ginnie Hart
holdingmoments	holdingmoments
hooooodah thunk! . . . , agin?	O'Dasor De
i Share	Indrani
In My World	ladyviral
India is a curious place	Hobo
Janie & Steve's Utah Trails	Janie
Jeevan's World	Jeevan
KARELTJE en ikke !!!	Anya
KHANA MASALA	Babli
langkawi	Glennis
Let's go for a vacation - Saru and Vamsee's Travels	Vamsee Modugula
Letters from Usedom	Angela
Life	Deepak Chhatbar
Lord Moore of Raveningham	The Abbot
lori times five	Lori ann
Mumbai daily	magiceye
my favorites	charmine.
My Travelogue	Bhushavali
Nature and The Earth- Megha Chhatbar	Megha Chhatbar
Nikon Sniper	Stephen Baird
Norsk Nettfoto	Dagrun
Norsk Nettfoto Tema	Dagrun
Nutty Gnome	Nutty Gnome
Ocala (Florida) Daily Photo	Jacob
O'Dasor De, LAM	O'Dasor De
Oeiras and environs daily photo	JM
Old Digger	Margaret Cloud
On a quirky quest with Lady Fi	Lady Fi
OUR INDIA	Jeevan
Paree - Photos of the City of Light	Jacob
Photings	magiceye
Photography ഫോട്ടോഗ്രാഫി	Prasanth - പ്രശാന്ത്‌
Pixellicious Photos	Kcalpesh Ajugia
Q's Corner	Q
Recollections of a Vagabonde	Vagabonde
Redefining Oblivion © ®	Rakesh Vanamali
RoShooters Blog oficial	Anca Erdei
Sarah Owens Photography	Sarah
scraps of bread...!	divsi
Serendipitous Garden	Prospero
somethingDeeperSomethingCheaper	I am Alive
St Austell Baywatch	The Watcher
Stare at the stars	Robert Weber
Tantra Flower	Tantra Flower
the gypsy on words unspoken	GYPSYWOMAN
the gypsy's travel journal	GYPSYWOMAN
The Utah Hive	Rush
The Villages Daily Photo	Jacob
The World in a Nutshell	Margaret Cloud
This is my blog	This Is My Blog - fishing guy
Thoughts from Meme's Corner	LV
TRAVEL IT'S FUN.	charmine.
Travel magic	magiceye
travelling	JM
Trevor Richard Moore	The Abbot
Under The Blood Red Sky	Janet
UNIQUE AND INTERESTING	Babli
Unseen Rajasthan	Bharat Khatri
UPROAD	uproad
Urban stories	joo
veredit - art	Isabella Kramer
veredit - photographic - poems	Isabella Kramer
veredit- iertes	Isabella Kramer
Walk the Wilderness	T and S
Welcome to Penniwig's Dearies and Elf-Friends	Olde Dame Penniwig
What is left of a whole new life	Lucille Horky
www.decoloveblog.com	Daniela Valdez de la Torre

Have a suppppppperb day :)

Purandar Fort

This place holds many pages in history. Records date back more than 650 years with several rulers fighting for their holds over this 4500 feet altitude fort in the Western Ghats mountain range. A record even notes German prisoners in this fort when it was in the powers of the British.

I know these are not the best snaps from this majestic place, but these photos were taken way back when I didn't have an SLR. The many aspects of this fort WILL be covered by me whenever I get another chance to visit the giant again. Until then, here's the archive I have…


Way to Purandar


Gate to Purandar on halfway


Statue of Murar Baji Prabhu on Purandar


Now cacti rule the Purandar Fort

Balaji Temple Replica in Pune

There used to be a small unknown town named Kapurhol in the district of Pune. One day, someone decided to build a replica of the very famous temple of Tirumala, of Lord Balaji. And, this was created. Now, the town is not so unknown. If you reach at 6 in the morning, this is worth a visit, believe me. All the other day times, evening times, etc. are not worth at all because hundreds of visitors gather messing up the pleasure of meeting the GOD. I have always believed that meeting the almighty should be private and personal. It's only then you can share your feelings with it and confess any errors you have done. I know this very clearly, so I reached there at about 6:30 in the morning. Was able to click these pictures at around 7 after discussing many things with the almighty :) No no, I don't need to go to temples to meet the most powerful; I feel it in every atom of the uncountable. But if I wouldn't have gone to this temple, how would have I shown its beauty to you?

Controlling Crowd

Yesterday, I made a new post that was from the memories from the past. One more thing, from not so past, was a post published by me — What a Wonderful Business! I opened the links and was again astonished by the business idea.

Life in India is very different than most of you visiting this blog from outside India. People are way mismanaged and indisciplined here in India. A simple example is that they don't stand in queues. All of them feel that they need to be attended first even if many are waiting already for a long time. The business mentioned in my post from the past, mentioned above, has tools to control the indiscipline… there are many crowd control products that help keep such people in queue. The names and terminologies may be different like stanchions, velvet rope, barricades, in this business, but all are for controlling crowd.

Direct TV

I remember those times when we didn't have satellite TV or what we call Direct TV, but used to have a cable guy with a common dish antenna with him.

Sitting and thinking this morning, I was lost so much in time that all the past memories were popping up, even the not important ones. One of those, not primarily, was about not having DirectTV. There was so much problem with the picture and sound quality when the cable guys used to give connections. There were so many faults at his end. There were so many amazing channels missing at that time, that were not even dreamt about in that era! Now with the Directv connections, I feel so comfortable.

But still there's a big lack of HD connections here in India. However I feel that the lack will be fulfilled very soon. Let's hope so.

I am just guessing, thinking that I'm about 90% correct in my guess, that most of you friends outside India are already enjoying HD TVs.

I would love to know any random and unusual remembrances from your past :)

Crafted Leaf

Roaming in the small forest reserves of Baneshwar, I found this beauty on the slopes of a small hill. Hope you like it :)

Simple Diwali

Wish you all a Very Happy Yet Simple Diwali.

Kade Varcha Ganpati [कडे वरचा गणपति]

The place I mentioned in my post named 2 Types of Bridges has a very beautiful temple of Lord Ganesh [the Elephant-Headed GOD]. From one of my trips in the past, here is a collection as a present to you all :) from the beautiful Kade Varcha Ganpati Temple located on the sea shore of Harne. The photographs are in sequence starting from the morning time in Harne to the evening back to Harne.


Harne Beach


Harne Beach Island


Tiny Crab of Harne Beach


For crossing the small gulf at Harne


Fishing Boat at Harne


Boatman taking passengers to the other side, towards Kade Varcha Ganpati Temple


Boats and Passengers to Kade Varcha Ganapati


Boatman and his boat at Harne beach


Sand of Harne beach island


Dog at Harne beach island


Areca Nut [सुपारी] trees at Harne beach


Steps to Kade Varcha Ganpati Temple


Areca Nut [सुपारी] and banana trees from the steps to Kade Varcha Ganpati Temple


Construction information about Kade Varcha Ganpati Temple in local language — Marathi [मराठी]


Dome of Kade Varcha Ganpati Temple


Mini statue of an elephant at Kade Varcha Ganpati Temple


Kade Varcha Ganpati Temple Premises


Kade Varcha Ganpati [The Elephant-Headed GOD]


Pentabloom hibiscus in Kade Varcha Ganpati Temple premises


Sea View from Kade Varcha Ganpati Temple


Shiv Ling at Kade Varcha Ganpati Temple


Harne Sea Face


Fort at the Harne Sea Face

Elephant Statue [Decorated]

What is it saying? Perhaps it's saying to save its species, else in the future, we'll just see the statues like it.

Please don't encroach new lands; we are spoiling earth's efforts worth billions of years. Shame on me that I'm also a contributor indirectly.

I've mentioned in the past few posts that I'm working on a project that may have a great impact on saving the forests. I'm so eager to disclose it, but let it be a secret for a few more days, until it proves itself.

Thoseghar Waterfall

Let the photographs load; these are worth the wait.

In the beginning of August 2009, I went to Kas Plateau and Thoseghar Waterfall. I have already published posts on Kas Plateau [I had to visit Kas again in the mid of September 2009 to photograph the wild flowers]. It's time to showcase the beauty of the twin attraction — Thoseghar Waterfall.

I like vertically long photographs. One of the examples from the past is Moon and Sun in One Photograph — a vertical panorama. But which is the best subject for long vertical photography? There may be many, but in monsoon? You obviously guessed it right — waterfalls!

Thoseghar has many large and small waterfalls, but there are 4-5 main falls in the canyon. Facing towards the falls, the first photograph below shows the second waterfall from the left.

Note: None of the below pictures are panoramas. All are single shots.

Scroll slowly for a feast for eyes.


I hope you liked it! The photo below is of the first waterfall from the left. There's a reason behind putting them in the reverse order as I have a good size-comparison photograph for the below one, which I want to end the post with.



I guess your eyeballs are popping out now by excitement. All the falls are just huge in size. The best way to express their size is to have a comparison subject. In the photo above, do you see a leafless tree at the halt of the waterfall, in front of the the tiny lake? Below is a close-up of that tree. Now I know that you know how mighty the waterfall is!



I am sure you're drenched!

My Eat-out at Sinhagad

Needless to say Sinhagad is a majestic place [see these for example…
• What's Beyond This?,
• Lilies of Sinhagad,
• Slow and Beautiful — Snail,
• TV Tower on Sinhagad - Going Inside Clouds,
• Kanda Bhaji from Sinhgadh].

But needful here to say that food at Sinhagad is just as good. Pitla Bhakri is what the villagers haved named the tastiest food available on the fort. Not just the tastiest, but one of the mostly available food too!

My eat out at Sinhagad was just tongue-blowing. Here are some snaps from there… Oh sorry, we Indians eat using our hands.


I'm ready to feast on Pitla Bhakri on Sinhagad


Me, eating and enjoying Pitla Bhakri. Just see my eyes expressing on behalf of my taste buds.


Me expressing how hot the red pepper paste covered chutney is


Wanna try?