Vicky
02-04-2009, 07:07 PM
Hi,
It was 4pm on Saturday the 24th Jan and as usual, I was in office, on the phone with my brother in law.. I said that there were two days holiday ahead (25th sunday and 26th republic day) and how boring the coming weekend was going to be... then he suddenly said that instead of grumbling, why not do something about it... made a few calls here and there and by 6pm, the six of us (myself, wife, yashu, sis, bro-in-law & neice) were in the car and on way to Kaziranga... about 225 kms from here:eek:
Before leaving office, I had booked two rooms at The Landmark Woods, a newly opened premium resort... about 1km inside the jungle from the National Highway. There's a lot of construction going on in this stretch of the highway, and we reached the place tired and exhausted at 11:30pm. The tiredness was soon swept away by the freshness in the cool jungle air... the large flower filled garden lawns and the spacious & clean rooms..
Freshened up, had some dinner and tried to put the kids to bed... useless attempt... having slept in the car, they were now too charged up to sleep again. We sat by the bonfire and had some self roasted corn and sweet potatoes... finally retired to for the night by around 2pm:)
Having seen the beautiful garden the previous night, I woke up early the next day to capture the flowers in the morning dew..
A Cottage at the resort..
#1http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg143/Vikash2007/IMG_7989.jpg
#2http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg143/Vikash2007/IMG_7936.jpg
#3http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg143/Vikash2007/IMG_7934.jpg
#4http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg143/Vikash2007/IMG_7921.jpg
#5http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg143/Vikash2007/IMG_7944.jpg
#6http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg143/Vikash2007/IMG_7914.jpg
Numbers #2, #3 & #5 are focus stacked from 5 images each whereas #6 is a 2x life size macro shot with the reverse 28mm FD:)
More to come.....
It was 4pm on Saturday the 24th Jan and as usual, I was in office, on the phone with my brother in law.. I said that there were two days holiday ahead (25th sunday and 26th republic day) and how boring the coming weekend was going to be... then he suddenly said that instead of grumbling, why not do something about it... made a few calls here and there and by 6pm, the six of us (myself, wife, yashu, sis, bro-in-law & neice) were in the car and on way to Kaziranga... about 225 kms from here:eek:
Before leaving office, I had booked two rooms at The Landmark Woods, a newly opened premium resort... about 1km inside the jungle from the National Highway. There's a lot of construction going on in this stretch of the highway, and we reached the place tired and exhausted at 11:30pm. The tiredness was soon swept away by the freshness in the cool jungle air... the large flower filled garden lawns and the spacious & clean rooms..
Freshened up, had some dinner and tried to put the kids to bed... useless attempt... having slept in the car, they were now too charged up to sleep again. We sat by the bonfire and had some self roasted corn and sweet potatoes... finally retired to for the night by around 2pm:)
Having seen the beautiful garden the previous night, I woke up early the next day to capture the flowers in the morning dew..
A Cottage at the resort..
#1http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg143/Vikash2007/IMG_7989.jpg
#2http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg143/Vikash2007/IMG_7936.jpg
#3http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg143/Vikash2007/IMG_7934.jpg
#4http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg143/Vikash2007/IMG_7921.jpg
#5http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg143/Vikash2007/IMG_7944.jpg
#6http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg143/Vikash2007/IMG_7914.jpg
Numbers #2, #3 & #5 are focus stacked from 5 images each whereas #6 is a 2x life size macro shot with the reverse 28mm FD:)
More to come.....