Guiding Light

This path was surprisingly isolated and we were the first ones there. The other people just stared at us as if we were criminals running off into the woods.

Soon after we walked down this path they followed us. Apparently they didn't know that we were allowed down this path.

Since it got crowded soon we turned right and walked up the hill following a tiny mud path. Those people watched us and then followed us. We gave up trying to find a quiet spot to rest because they followed us everywhere. So we turned back with quite a few good pictures.

Just Hanging

We saw these beautiful flower at a place called Batasia Loop in Darjeeling. That's a place that I've spoke of in one of my previous blog posts.

There are quite a few pictures from this place as it is really beautiful, specially when there are pretty flowers like this particular one.

Anyway the Auto Focus on the SX50 isn't particularly great when it comes to macro shots and even though I manually shifted the focus point it still didn't do a great job.

Sleepy Cat

This cat just wandered in when I was taking a few pictures of its owner at a Tibetan Refugee Center.

The lady was knitted some woolen caps and this cat just came there stared at her for a few minutes and probably decided that she was too busy to be disturbed.

It then went and lay down right in front of here and gave me a good opportunity :)

Bully

This is the picture I wanted to share yesterday. I like mixing things up a bit and of late I've been sharing quite a few landscape photographs - not that I don't like landscape photographs.

This is the Indian Bullfrog. It a big frog and my dog doesn't really like it but I think it's great.

If you remember I posted a picture a few months back of two eyes sticking out of a body of water. Well that was an Indian Bullfrog too. Not sure if it was the same as this but it was a bullfrog for sure.

Oh and recently I saw a Lesser Adjuant Stork in the field and it just poked its beak into the ground and pull out this massive frog, which I'm guessing was a bull frog. I did get a picture of it but it was too far off so is not really detailed.

The End

First off I must apologize because I wanted to share another picture today but my internet connection is acting up and it's not even letting me log in from my laptop.

So I'll be sharing an iPhone shot with you all. But it's not so bad after all as I quite like this shot from today.

Yellow Beauty

On a recent trip to a nearby hill-station we stopped at a watch-tower sort of place to take in the view. Although the fog was really thick and we couldn't see more than a few feet in front of us, we weren't completely disappointed because of all the pretty flowers in that place.

While the others were busy trying to see how far off into the distance they could see, I decided to photograph there amazing flowers.

There were so many of them and they were just beautiful.

The SX50 HS isn't one for great bokeh so I had to improvise. After a few adjustment layers, I added the iris blur filter. If you don't have that in Photoshop then you should try out the lens blur filter.

Through The Foliage

Yup...another cheesy caption/title...I know. Kinda hit a block there with captions. Can't seem to come up with catchy non-cheesy ones.

Anyway back to the picture. I wouldn't have got this picture if I had lost my way. There was a football (soccer...for the others) match that I was supposed to by playing in and also take pictures when I wasn't and I didn't know where they'd gone to play.

I assumed they'd be at the usual place but when I got there they weren't there. Figuring I was too late to play anyway, I decided to take it slow and get some good landscape shots on the way to the place they were actually at.

I didn't get to play that day but I did get some good pictures.