the calm after the storm

After some heavy rain, a forest looks radically fresh the next day. Nature showing us impermanence.

full moon

Was a lovely full moon in the night… super, considering its the last ‘super moon’ of 2020 – the closest that it comes to the Earth. Couple of attempts with a 16mb mobile camera.

confronting colorfully

These peacocks seem to be having quite a discussion, while confronting colorfully… (video taken from far away and the zoom misses clarity)

no, not a snake…

This was an amazing sight… it looked like a snake at first sight, but then it was pretty strange… After a quick search based on a wild guess, it turned out to be larvae migrating, possibly some kind of a gnat larvae. But why…

birds at Lalbagh, Bengaluru…

Lalbagh is just a park in the city which I hadn’t visited in a long while! But every visit there taking it for granted, is a visit where we can find the joy of rediscovering it again… This visit it was really surprising to…

sea the magic

While exploring the seaside, there’s a lovely place to visit… Came face to face with different friends along the way… Flaunting off the pretty wings… Meowwelcome… …wwwhatever… back to my nap now… Lovely water side… No hurry here… The Mantra Surf Club, at Mulki,…

a star attraction

A star fruit tree at a friend’s house was in full blossom… it has this phase for just a week’s time or so. It had rained heavily and though it had stopped, it was fun to feel it raining again from the tree while…

a centipede meets its match

A centipede itself is a predator but who could guess what would happen when it took on these ants just by walking on their track…

power in the sky

It was a stormy night… Revisiting a well known fact… By definition, lightning is a sudden electrostatic discharge during an electrical storm. This discharge allows charged regions in the atmosphere to temporarily equalize themselves, when they strike an object on the ground. Although lightning…

birds coexisting with people

Kokkare Belluru One may have heard of the bird sanctuary at Ranganthittu, near Mysore. This is a nearby, relatively almost unknown place. Here birds co-exist with villagers like an extended family. The people are quite knowledgable… they said look how they are providing shade…