Sachin, you can use my images provided that you let me know exactly which images you are using, acknowledge the photographer, and send me a copy.
With best regards, Krushnamegh. ------------------------------------------------- Krushnamegh Kunte, PhD Ramanujan Fellow and Reader National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS) Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) GKVK, Bellary Road, Bengaluru 560065, India. Ph: +91 80 2366-6001/02, extension 6410 Mobile: + 91 9403-975-925 Email: [email protected], [email protected] Website: http://biodiversitylab.org/ Indian Foundation for Butterflies: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/ Emails: [email protected], [email protected] From: Sachin Aggarwal <[email protected]> Reply-To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:09:17 +0530 To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Cc: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Photo(s) of the year 2011 Folks, Great seeing some awesome shots. I would like to add some of these to a butterflies page to a "Naturalist's Journal" that Bamboo Rustles is printing for a naturalist training camp. For those who are ok with me using the pics posted here, please let me know Thanks Sachin www.bamboorustles.com <http://www.bamboorustles.com> On Jan 30, 2012, at 9:47 PM, Krushnamegh Kunte <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Rohan, thanks! You have made your year with much more than the Brown Gorgon > and Jewelled Nawab. You also photographed the Pointed Palmfly (Elymnias > penanga): > > http://ifoundbutterflies.org/425-elymnias/elymnias-penanga > > This is not a species many people have seen, or even heard of. I bet most > people could not even ID it if they saw if before. But now your picture is a > great reference for everyone. I hope that you will get many such ³firsts² in > 2012. > > With best regards, > > Krushnamegh. > ------------------------------------------------- > > Krushnamegh Kunte, PhD > > Ramanujan Fellow and Reader > National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS) > Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) > GKVK, Bellary Road, > Bengaluru 560065, India. > Ph: +91 80 2366-6001/02, extension 6410 > Mobile: + 91 9403-975-925 > Email: [email protected], [email protected] > Website: http://biodiversitylab.org/ > > Indian Foundation for Butterflies: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/ > Emails: [email protected], [email protected] > > > > From: rohan lovalekar <[email protected]> > Reply-To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:46:56 +0530 > To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Photo(s) of the year 2011 > > > > > > > Dear Krushnamegh > > This is just sensational! Especially that Large Siverstripe underwing pic! > That for me Shot of the year! While processing that image for IFB I really > feel jealous! :) I hope we can have blast in Northeast some time in future! > And I did compensated for Krishna Peacock with Brown Gorgon and Jewelled Nawab > > Cheers > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Krushnamegh Kunte <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> Here is my late entry for the ³Photo of the Year². I have been busy setting >> up my lab and settling down in India since I moved back from Boston at the >> end of December. Anyway, I was hoping to make two field trips to India in >> 2011, but I managed to make just one. This is because I received my job offer >> and wanted to make progress on some work back in Boston before I left. But >> that turned out to be one wonderful whirlwind of a trip! In that month, May >> 2011, following the advice of Usha Lachungpa, I visited parts of South, East, >> West and North Sikkim Districts, and saw many butterfly species that I had >> dreamed of for many years. Some of them were new to me, others were new only >> to my camera. Gaurav Purohit joined me for two weeks, and we had a blast! I >> also made a new friend, Harsha Kumar, a young and fairly inexperienced fella, >> who scared away many a butterfly and made me miss many pictures that I wanted >> to take, but I enjoyed our time together, anyway. Here¹s the selection from >> our trip: >> >> Large Silverstripe (Argynnis childreni): This is a common species and anyone >> who has been to mid-elevation Himalaya has probably seen this butterfly. I >> had seen it many times but had never managed to take a decent picture. And >> then one day we saw this individual that would not go away no matter what was >> going on in its neighborhood. I even managed to take out some larger stones >> from its background by hand while it was feeding. That¹s how I got a clean, >> diffused, out of focus background in this picture. And I loved the green and >> pink in this frame. The picture is also available online at: >> >> http://ifoundbutterflies.org/122-argynnis/argynnis-childreni >> >> Green Awlet (Burara vasutana): I had never seen this species but had been >> waiting for it for years! One evening, as I walked along my favorite Pabung >> Khola, a reddish-brown butterfly swung around in front of me and kept >> circling round and round at super high speeds. When it finally settled on a >> bird dropping, I could not take my eyes off the metallic yellow-green! You >> can see why in the attached picture, and online: >> >> http://ifoundbutterflies.org/275-burara/burara-vasutana >> >> Krishna Peacock (Papilio krishna): This was another lifer for me. The only >> picture I knew of this species was that of Alka Vaidya from the Eaglenest >> WLS, which she had posted on this group some time ago. One day, after a >> morning of heavy rains, I opted out of field work to process my samples and >> tidy up notes in my field notebook. Unencumbered by such scholarly concerns >> about notes and data, Gaurav and Harsha set out to look for whatever >> butterflies they could photograph. They returned an hour or so afterward, >> their faces grinning ear to ear! They produced two species that made me turn >> green: the Tailed Redbreast (Papilio bootes) and the Krishna Peacock! >> Gaurav¹s picture of the Krishna Peacock is now online (see URL below), and it >> is such a fantastic image! I did not think anyone would be able to take a >> picture of this species coming anywhere close in quality to Gaurav¹s picture. >> But then, this was Sikkim, and just a few days later, we faced another >> Krishna Peacock that was just born to pose for pictures. See what I mean: >> >> http://ifoundbutterflies.org/47-papilio/papilio-krishna >> >> I must end this narrative with perhaps my biggest discovery so far, the >> Scarce Jester (Symbrenthia silana). You probably remember the history of this >> species; if not, check my website and my paper on the species. I have been to >> Sikkim three times, and I have seen this very rare species every single time! >> The attached picture was taken at Pabung Khola, at almost exactly the same >> spot where I had photographed this species one and half years before this >> picture. I like to think that this individual was perhaps the >> great-great-grandson of the individual that I had photographed here in 2009. >> Who knows! Pictures of both the individuals are available at: >> >> http://ifoundbutterflies.org/173-symbrenthia/symbrenthia-silana >> >> I met Subhasis on this trip for the first time, and met Arjan on my way out >> after a few years. Rohan, Usha and others wanted to join me on this trip but >> could not for various reasons. Now that I am back in India and will be in the >> field often, I hope to meet many of you in our forests to watch butterflies >> together. >> >> Wish you a happy and very productive 2012. >> >> With best regards, >> >> Krushnamegh. >> >> PS: I had replied to a few emails in the past two weeks (e.g., to emails by >> Subhasis and Sahil), I am not sure those emails made it to the group. I am >> copying this email to Vijay in the hopes that at least this email will reach >> you folks. My primary email address has changed, and there may be some >> hiccups before emails from the new email address start rolling out smoothly. >> >> ------------------------------------------------- >> >> Krushnamegh Kunte, PhD >> >> Ramanujan Fellow and Reader >> National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS) >> Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) >> GKVK, Bellary Road, >> Bengaluru 560065, India. >> Ph: +91 80 2366-6001/02/18/19, ext 6410 >> Mobile: + 91 9403-975-925 >> Email: [email protected] <http://[email protected]> , >> [email protected] <http://[email protected]> >> Website: http://biodiversitylab.org/ >> >> Indian Foundation for Butterflies: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/ >> Emails: [email protected] >> <http://[email protected]> , [email protected] >> <http://[email protected]> >> >> >> > > > > > > > > -- Enjoy
