Thanks, Singh ji, for your advice. For me approach is different as I have yet to completely understand the nuances of Indian Flora. I try to capture anything I see flowering (particularly if I am not sure if I have photographed it earlier), sort out Ids with my earlier collection & the books. Few which are left or I am not sure, I try to process first & post for Id.
2009/9/21 Satish Phadke <[email protected]> > Thanks Gurcharan ji for sharing your thoughts. > I think that was the approach Mr Shrikant ji Ingalhalikar had followed > during his commendable study which resulted in the publication of his second > book "Further flowers of Sahyadri" and he happily adds a page near the end > of the book which gives the lists of flowers not included in the book. I > wish and pray that he will come up with Still further flowers of Sahyadris > which includes these and many more species which are even not there in the > Floras of Maharashtra. I had experience to work with him in one of the field > trip. He has such a dedication that when he gets the news that a particular > species is flowering somewhere; he squeezes out time from his work takes out > his car and driving himself far distances reaches the spot and catures it in > his camera. > We are happy to have him on the group to solve many mysteries. > I hope and am sure many members of the group might have similar ideas > Regards > Dr Satish Phadke > > 2009/9/19 singhg . <[email protected]> > >> While actively involved in floristic research between 1969 to 1975, at the >> end I could identify 80-90 percent of plants for Kashmir valley. With most >> of these faded in memory lane in 34 years, and many more hidden in hard >> covers of different herbaria; the best approach that I adopted then was to >> find out how many species of a particular genus are reported, and how many I >> have collected. I would note down the important features of those left, and >> be on look out. Photography then was a expensive hobby, and one could not >> think of clicking every plant met, have the film processed and get the >> prints, and that too mostly black and white. Lucky to be able to photograph >> which you needed to use in your thesis and then your book. >> While this approach is a far cry for us in Indian Flora, I wish the >> active members from Maharashtra (and I find there are many), Karnataka, >> Kerala, TN and other places can try this approach, and be look out for >> species which are reported from their area, but not represented on >> Indiantreepix and Flowers of India. This should serve double purpose: your >> interest in plants would be greately increased, you always have a goal, and >> ultimately our databases will be enriched much more quickly. I selectively >> take care to upload those species which are not in our databases. >> Wishing you a happy photography >> >> >> >> -- >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Associate Professor, Department of Botany, SGTB Khalsa College >> University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018 >> Phone: 011025518297; Mobile: 9810359089 >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> >> >> > > > -- > > http:// satishphadke.blogspot.com > > > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg ([email protected]) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' Image Resource of thousands of my images of Birds, Butterflies, Flora etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg For learning about Indian Flora, visit/ join Google e-group- Indiantreepix: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
