Hi, Pankaj ji, I think this always happens with everybody. One has to be ready to back up from such risks in future. Despite having two different bodies with a total of around 12 GB memory, I got short on memory. Fortunately I got get hold of a new 2 GB card from Ghangaria. Battery was not a problem as I had spare for both the bodies & would charge everyday due to returning back to Ghangaria everyday. Fortunately I had my Laptop with me which I left at Govind Ghat & downloaded my images there. On 3 January 2011 18:31, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> There is an ironic story of my travel to VoF. All the time, I wanted > to take many pics, but I was skeptic that my batteries will go off and > then my memory card will get full, so I was concentrating more on > Orchids. To my surprise, when I returned back to Govind Ghat and then > returned to Badrinath, I then realised that I already had a spare > battery and a spare 2GB card in one of the small zippers in my bag. > > To add to the irony, many of my files got corrupted while transferring > them to a PC at the base camp of one of our colleagues :(( [Problem > was in the PC itself]. > I must have taken 200 pics of the rarest close sighting of the > Himalayan Monal, of which less than 20 remained uncorrupted!!! > > But surely although I was not well both physically and mentally, I did > travel all the way and visited both VoF, Hemkunt Sahib, Badrinath, > Mandal, Tunganath and came back....plants kept me going and so did the > reasons why I went !! I succeeded for plants, but for others, I failed > and ultimately became an atheist. > > Pankaj > > > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 6:05 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Captured on 12/8/10 during the trek from Ghangaria (around 11,000 ft.) to > > Valley of Flowers (around 12500 ft.). > > > > Don’t miss it in 2011. > > > > -- > > With regards, > > J.M.Garg ([email protected]) > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a thousand species & > > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > > alphabetically & place-wise): > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use > them > > for free as per liberal licensing conditions attached with each image. > > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > > please visit/ join our Google e-group- > > Efloraofindia:http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than > 1475 > > members & 57,000 messages on 16/12/10 & with a database of around 4400 > > species on 30/11/10) > > > > > > > > -- > *********************************************** > "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" > > > Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) > Research Associate > Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project > Department of Habitat Ecology > Wildlife Institute of India > Post Box # 18 > Dehradun - 248001, India > -- With regards, J.M.Garg ([email protected]) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per liberal licensing conditions attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Google e-group- Efloraofindia: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1475 members & 57,000 messages on 16/12/10 & with a database of around 4400 species on 30/11/10)
