Last Sunday along with Shashank and Arun of BWS, I went for my first bird photography trip on Kanakapura road, around Valley school campus. There were lots of birds. Robins, Munias, Bulbuls and many more, that i can’t identify as yet, were around. Early on we couldn’t get good shots even with Shashank’s 100-400mm + 1.4x extender at they were very busy and were getting disturbed easily in more or less open field.
Flowers don't fly - This is what you'd capture when birds are hard to find
Down the road towards the school, driving in the car we spotted few laughing doves, spotted doves, bulbuls, pied bushchats and sun-birds. Photographing them from inside the car is much easier as they don’t get disturbed.
Clicking butterflies when birds are hard to find:
Plain Tiger Butterfly
Wallpaper version of the above pic is here.
On the launch pad, ready to take-off
But then these Pied Bushchats are so co-operative:
Pied Bushchat - male
Soon, we spotted a green bee eater perched on a pole, started clicking few shots. Then, i spotted a white throated kingfisher on the far side. Clicked a few shots of two of my favorite birds on my first bird photography trip.
In the field there we could get decent pics of green bee eaters. Hiding in a bush, when Shashank kinda was scaring then with his tripod mounted 100-400mm lens, i shot my best pics of the trip of the beautiful green bee eater.
Looking out for bees:
Green Bee Eater
White-throated kingfisher:
White-throated Kingfisher
That’s all folks! ;-)
P.S.: All images captured on Canon EOS 450D + 55-250mm IS, and RJ It’s not over yet. :D
wonderful!!!!!! hey what are white dots in bee eater pic which brighten up as i scroll down the page??
please don’t stop :) lovely…I want a DSLR!!!!
OMG!! I like 3 and 5 the best !!
They’re like official Nat Geo photos!! Really!!
Freaking good!!
I say, go ahead with a photo blog man!!
Am i jealous, am i jealous! :) yes, i am, yes i am!!! what pics man! and i liked your copyright thingy! cool snaps and if your camera gets stolen, you can easily blame me for that :)
Beautiful pics :)
@Reema
Thanks.. what white dots? something on the bottom left of the pic?
those are some flowers in the background.
@Vishesh
Okie.. Thanks :)
@Priya
Thanks Priya.. NatGeo.. looooooooooooong way to go :)
Decided against Photoblog.. i think this blog has enough audience and search engine reach.. so i’d stick with just this
@Sakhi
hahaa… i’d better be careful with my cam :)
@Nova
Thanks.
cool pictures. The photos are awesome. You camera is good.
@San – :) I like the pics. Ok, I will be truthful – I LOVE the pics! Pretty damn neat, man!!
Dude – as always, you da rockstar! Simblllllyyy superbb!
Wowie Sandeep!!
The Kingfisher is to die for. Call Mallya and asks if he wants to launch a campaign with it ;)
Naa not the white flowers. There were some white dots behind the bird. Now i cant see them. Maybe something was wrong with my monitor.
@Xylene
Thanks.. so is the cameraman i guess :D
@RJ
Thanks.. i know the pics have come out well.. i got lucky with birds..
@Deepu
Again.. Thanks..
Mallya might be interested in other kind of birds for the campaign :D
@Reema
ah hmm.. may be.. sometimes when you scroll, the refresh of the monitor won’t happen instantaneously.. so.. :)
Hey Sandeep,
Thnx for dropping by my blog
tht butterfly is beautiful, rather beautifully captured
Cheers!
@Swats
That butterfly is beautiful, and i’ve just captured as it was :)
Thanks for your comment!
Beautiful. They look straight out of National Geographic!!!!!
@Amit
haha.. not yet… looong way to go.. thanks anyway
@San – Macha send me the plain tiger butterfly in a 280 wallpaper resolution, I came back to look at it…nice daa! :)
Those are really beautiful pics!!
Kanakpura Raod… well thats next to my school… You get to see such awesome stuff there?
http://www.oystercracker.wordpress.com
Nice :)
Amazing Photography and Collection! Will look forward for more in this space… can u put pics of twilight, or wild animals, or nature in different moods, in general?
Jus Loved the pics… the launch-pad butterfly took my breath away! :)
speechless :)
These pictures are so beautiful. I used to have a Canon Film SLR EOS 500N ( I think) but switched to Digital Point and Shoot. I used to shoot with 75 to 300 MM Tamron lens and pictures used to come out great. Your pictures makes me want to go back to a Digital SLR, if only I have the time for it!
@RJ
I’ll put a wallpaper version of the pic in a couple of days.
@Prarthana
Yup, it’s an awesome place.. you got to have an eye for it ;)
@Manasa
Thanks.. something more than that would have been helpful :)
@Su
Thanks.. i’ll put up more pics as i capture.. takes time to go out and take pics.. until then keep visiting :)
@Megs
You got to speak :)
@Dinesh babu
Thanks man… How could you resist buying DSLR when you’ve used an SLR earlier!!
Make some time… :)
WOWW!!….amazing pics man!…cant wait to get a 450D…please reply back with the price of the DSLR…
looking forward for more pics…
Cheers,
Teja
I like the first one the best! Good going, dude! Join a newspaper and become a professional photographer!! :D
Superb!
@Tejas
Thanks.. i’ve mailed you the details
@Nikhil
haha.. got any contacts there?
@wass
Thanks
nice pics sandeep … but wont the 100-400mm lose AF capability at 400mm with 1.4x?
@USandeep
It gets slower… lot slower than otherwise what is an amazingly fast lens.
Man your pics are really awesome !
Thanks Radhesh
hey dude superb photos.great to see them,very nice.planing to buy canon DSLR. what is the cost of 450D.can you mail me the details.
Nitesh
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Sandeep,the photos are indeed very good..infact,excellent..I am also interested in photography..I tried to learn some basics in food photography..your blog has given me some motivation..Thanks :)
@Nimmy
Thanks. I’m honored to hear that :)
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