Tropical Island Green – A photo essay

There should be a colour called ‘Tropical Island Green’. It is not the green of the palm tree fronds lining the fashionable walkways of a desert metropolis nor is it the colour of the monsoon washed leaves of the tree clumps leading a precarious existence on the borders of the pulsing thoroughfares in a growing…

Milky Way Timelapse (and editing notes)

Every stellar sky needs its own timelapse… A month ago, I was at Havelock Island where I shot a few nice pictures of the Milky Way in the sky. I have now stitched these images together in a timelapse. Enjoy A note on postprocessing: Most digital photographs published online have gone through some kind of…

Summer Reads #9 – #13

These last few weeks, I have been making steading progress in reading through my TBR piles – not as fast as I would like, but slow and steady wins the race and all that. A quick snapshot of the books that I have read since late July. #9, 10 and 11 The Fionavar Tapestry by…

Endemic Birds- The Andaman Flowerpecker

I don’t think I’d quite heard the word ‘endemic’ before I started birding over a decade ago. Unlike a pandemic (ouch! sorry for using the P word), anything endemic is restricted to a particular (narrow?) geographical area. The Andaman Flowerpecker is an endemic bird which is only found in the Andaman and Nicobar island chain…

White throated kingfisher on the beach