Just back from an amazing 7 day trip to the Jim Corbett National Park, the oldest park in the country.
Sharing an image I made at the park.
This month I feature a small wading bird, Ruddy Turnstone.
I made this picture on a beach near Alibaug.
After many months, did I get a chance to go into the wild & make a few decent pictures! I am sharing with you a picture of a Small Green Bee Eater, I made at Veer. Veer is a dam near Pune, where the migratory Bar Headed Geese make home every winter. Visited the place with the intention of making a few pictures of the Geese, but was unsuccessful this time.
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"Why did you take up photography and focus on Indian Wildlife?" - The question I asked myself a few days back.
I really don't know why I took up photography. But I do know why I took up Wildlife Photography.
My tryst with wildlife goes back about 15 years. My parents sent me to Lakshadweep with a local tour group. That was my first experience with eco-tourism, took to like fish taking to water! After that, I visited quite a few reserve forests, sanctuaries and tiger reserves. I also try and spend my weekends somewhere in the wilderness around Pune.
During the first few trips, I learnt, why we need to protect our forests and jungles. Now whenever I camp, I try and educate kids about the same. I realized one thing, we city people, who have never had a chance to travel to such locations, never know what existed in the forests. But on the other hand somebody or the else is trying to hammer into people why we must save the forests and jungles. If people never knew what existed in the forests and jungles, why would they want help protect it?
I thought I could try and bridge this gap by making pictures of the beautiful things that we see there and present it to people. If they know what they need to protect, it might help them to understand why they need to protect it.
To be honest, somewhere on the way, I lost this focus and made pictures just for myself! But then retrospecting, I realized I am not going in the direction I started. I have decided that from today, I will start taking pictures to show people the beauty and make them understand what lies in those forests.
To facilitate this, first, I need to change the licensing on all my pictures so sharing them can become easy. In the very early days, all my photos were under a full copyright license. Later changed the licensing to 'Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs'. Which still restricts people from using it or using it. Just to make it even simpler for people to use my pictures, I will be relicensing my photos under the 'Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike' license. All my pictures shared on Flickr are now re-licensed (It won't be possible to change the actual license plate on the photo, all new photos will have the new license plate).
I hope that helps in sharing the pictures and spreading the message. I would also request other wildlife photographers, to share their pictures under this license.
Replicating a post from VirtualBox forum for self reference and archival. Original port is available here. Additionally, on my MBP, I could not see vboxnet0 adapter. The procedure to make it available is as follows:
You are now set to follow the post below.
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Has anybody been able to communicate by SSH between a Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) host and a guest running on VirtualBox? My guest is Ubuntu Server 10.10 (64-bit). I have done the following, but to no avail:
$ ifconfig vboxnet0 vboxnet0: flags=8843 mtu ether 0a:00:27:00:00: inet 192.168.56.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.56
auto eth1 iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.56.10 netmask 255.255.255.0
But my Mac OS X ssh client just hung there without a response until it timed out. :-( There must be something else I am supposed to do to make this work—but what could it be? Does anybody know? Thank you!
Here are my thoughts for you. Just like the way you decide, who to talk to by remaining invisible, I am going to decide whether to respond to your chat ping or not.
Once in a while u r in invisible mode, I can understand, but everyday? If you don't want other's to ping you as you are busy, set the busy status & politely tell ppl, you will get back to them. If you have a pesky friend on the list delete / block him or her.
Note: This post is not for any one person but in general to all my invisible friends.
