boost that optical zoom

I personally have a 10×50 model pocket sized but some unknown company years ago. Did some research for a new one recently. I’d suggest not to spend too much time on reading into all the details, its never ending 😅 So here’s a summary… The…

tiny frog

Yesterday night, saw this frog who’d somehow made it indoors… the size of a thumbnail… seemed to be well adapted to the flooring tiles 🙂 Looking at the movement of the throat… I’d assumed it was the frog’s pulse. Or maybe it was practicing…

invisible interconnections

They are invisible only as we take them for granted, but visible if we really look out for them. Since Darwin, we have generally thought of trees as striving, disconnected loners, competing for water, nutrients and sunlight, with the winners shading out the losers…

sloths in action

Going beyond the conventional meaning of being slothful – the slow movement of a sloth may well be a survival skill to avoid detection by predators. In this pretty cool clip from the BBC, legendary David Attenborough has a close encounter with a sloth,…

a lake bed over time

This a tiny lake with maybe no name. Anyway in Bangalore, we just have to wish a lake by any other name, remains a lake! Around April while walking around southern part of Banashankari over a small dry lake bed, there were some sheep…

attempting sketching

Don’t bother if its nice or not… just in making an attempt – we learn so many details that we’d ignored otherwise. “A drawing is simply a line going for a walk” (Paul Klee) Don’t bother if its nice or not… just in making…

baya weaver nest’s funnel

Looked like the funnel is the final part of the nest after it gets approved. Yes, the funnel (or the entrance lobby!) is the finishing touch, after the nest has passed inspection. ~ Deepa Mohan

a tiny spider

Got a good site, next to a light, dinner is served, without much of a fight 😏 (Wonder which of those lines are the non-sticky lines the spider itself walks on without itself getting stuck!)

halo in the sky

What causes this halo in the sky? As we approach summer and the sun is coming out you may notice a ring, or halo, around the sun. This unusual sight is caused by cirrus clouds. Those thin cirrus clouds are around 20,000 feet or…

beyond your comfort zone

Have seen many amazing animal videos since childhood, but this was quite incredible. The comments are based on the video below, and are only relevant if you watch it. Usually langurs give out an alarm call, but the langur mother here is very calm…