You know Satishji, climbing on high trees is the fun of flora photographing and if fallen down that is additional bonus. I was awarded this bonus once at Matheran for photographing Anjani flower.
BTW nice catch, in my wishlist in WG. On 6 January 2012 15:13, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> wrote: > Flower hunting with Shrikant ji is always memorable. > We were wandering in the forests of Mahabaleshwar to find some Oberonia > species as that was its flowering time. > Suddenly I spotted some white orchid flowers on a tree which was at a > distance. This turned out to be *Dendrobium mabelae* which was first time > for me though he had photographed it sometime back in 2007-08 with his > old camera. > We had to struggle a lot to reach the tree with thick tall grass all > around, some climbing and other adjustments to take good photographs. Some > leeches and ticks bit us which was evident little later. But the new find > made my day. > > -- > Dr Satish Phadke > -- Regards Rajesh Sachdev http://www.facebook.com/leopardguy
