That's great!!! With digital photography & internet, there is a similar madness everywhere in the world to photograph & document every aspect of our life including wildlife. Indiantreepix is no more the same since you joined us. I was worried when you were about to go to California. But see, you helped us with more zeal. Can anybody say that it's only three months since you joined Indiantreepix & changed its face? It is as if you were & have been always there. Your great footsteps have lead so many of other experts joining & helping us in this quest.
2009/11/2 Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> > Garg ji > This has been true for me also, although in a different way. During last 30 > years or so I must have visited so many hill stations in connection with > botanical trips. It was sufficient for me to identify for students the > commonly growing plants. The madness started only after my son presented me > a digital SLR camera last year (Earlier I had SLR film camera, with which > you can't be that liberal). Last year I took more than 5000 photographs in > California (they went into my International edition book), more than 2000 > this year, and more than 1000 in Manali trip. Now I want to identify, every > plant I click. We are all similar in that sense. > And the way I identified Cuphea hyssopifolia and had no clue > about another species of same genus, puts us all in the same bracket. > Identification is a learning process for all of us, especially when we > may be confronted with any of more than quarter million species of flowering > plants. > You can imagine my madness when I could find only a single small > plant, which looked very interesting to me. I managed to take different > photographs of this plant and finally managed to identify it as Viola > betonicifolia. > > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College > University of Delhi, Delhi > India > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45 > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* J.M. Garg <[email protected]> > *To:* Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> > *Cc:* Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> ; > [email protected] > *Sent:* Monday, November 02, 2009 6:24 PM > *Subject:* Re: [indiantreepix:22048] Re: Plant 021109GS1 for ID from Mandi > in HP > > I agree with Dinesh ji. > For a lot us like me, it's *learning by mistakes or photography*. > *Photography has proved to be a great learning experience.* > One photographs a plant, tries to identify it with the help of books etc., > processes photos of different aspects of it, posts it, gets its > confirmation/ correction on the group along with lots of discussion. > One sees it again in the field & may be repeats the process. > It involves so much of energy & time along with passionate involvement. > It's difficult for one to forget it easily. > > > 2009/11/2 Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> > >> Dinesh ji >> And now the interesting coincidence. A few feet away from this plant was >> growing Cuphea hyssopifolia, which I could identify easily. Not in my >> wildest dreams could I thinkt that it could belong to the same genus. >> >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Associate Professor >> SGTB Khalsa College >> University of Delhi, Delhi >> India >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45 >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> *From:* Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> >> *To:* Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> >> *Cc:* [email protected] >> *Sent:* Monday, November 02, 2009 5:48 PM >> *Subject:* Re: [indiantreepix:22041] Plant 021109GS1 for ID from Mandi in >> HP >> >> Dear friends (and Gurcharan ji), the reason with which I arrived to the ID >> is not botanical, it is rather based on learning by mistakes !! For want of >> time, I put only the botanical name in my message earlier. >> >> Let me append to it ... I had seen this plant in Mahabaleshwar ... >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/2195761806/ ... and had >> mistaken it for *Woodfordia fruticosa* !!!! ... ... one of my flickr >> contact (Tony Rodd) as well as Tabish corrected the ID. >> >> Regards. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dinesh Valke >>> Thanks a lot. That is the beauty of this group. With so many diverse >>> experts, it so much lessens your work of sitting with books, hand lens and >>> dissecting microscopes. >>> >>> Thanks once again >>> >>> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >>> Associate Professor >>> SGTB Khalsa College >>> University of Delhi, Delhi >>> India >>> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45 >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> *From:* Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> >>> *To:* Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> >>> *Cc:* [email protected] >>> *Sent:* Monday, November 02, 2009 1:53 PM >>> *Subject:* Re: [indiantreepix:22041] Plant 021109GS1 for ID from Mandi >>> in HP >>> >>> Gurcharan ji, please check *Cuphea micropetala*. >>> Regards. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Sending 021109GS1 for ID from Mandi in HP >>>> >>>> Incidently the first plant I encountered on trip to Kullu-Manali was a >>>> small shrub, I could not place. It was apparantly cultivated outside a >>>> hotel. >>>> >>>> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >>>> Associate Professor >>>> SGTB Khalsa College >>>> University of Delhi, Delhi >>>> India >>>> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45 >>>> >>>> >>>> > > > -- > 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 > > -- 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. 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