Prashant ji, Very beautiful composition of all images together. I am sure I wrote to you yesterday, but somehow can't find my post. Aarti
On Jan 6, 12:06 pm, Prashant Awale <pkaw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Garg ji, Prasad ji, Bhagyashree ji, Rathinasabapathy Bhuvaragasamy > ji, Tanay ji, Gurcharan Singh ji and Adittya for appreciation. Yes Adittya > U R right, this was photogarphed near Gorai Jetty. > > In fact i forgot to tell you a small story behind this, > > This was for the first time i met Dr Satish Phadke ji. He was in Mumbai and > had a free day. He just contacted me and then myself, Satish ji and Dinesh > decided to go on some Flower sighting trip. That day we had been to Vasai > fort (@ outskirts of Mumbai) and then to Gorai. Gorai is very close to > famous "Essel World". Apart from other plants, i was bit keen to see > "Cistanche tubulosa" and fortunately Dinesh knew about this location. We > all were fortunate enough to spot it. While we were photographing this > plant, suddenly one Police patrolling jeep stopped near us and started > questing us. Seeing our cameras,they probably thought that we are some > people from Press and are there to colllect some info/ or to report some > thing. When we revelaed our identity, they told us that this place is bit > notorious and informed us to be care full. Notorious for many > reasons.....better not to comment, destruction of Mangrooves may be one of > the reason.. ... > > It is preferrable to visit this place in small group rather than going > alone. This was a memorable trip and spotting of Cistanche tubulosa was > icing on the cake...... > > Thanks for reading.. > Regards > Prashant > On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 12:02 PM, prasad dash <prasad.dash2...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > > > > > One of your best photograph Prashant Sir. This deserve to be one of the > > best. > > > Regards > > > prasad > > > On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:28 AM, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Wonderful presentation, Prashant ji. > > >> On 6 January 2012 00:00, Prashant Awale <pkaw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>> Dear Friends, > > >>> Here i am sharing the photograph of *Cistanche tubulosa* ( Family: > >>> Orobanchaceae) > >>> as "Flora Picture of the year-2011". > > >>> This was photographed at Gorai (at the outskirts of Mumbai). > > >>> Regards > >>> Prashant > > >> -- > >> With regards, > >> J.M.Garg (jmga...@gmail.com) > >>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 Creative Commons license attached with each image. > >> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > >> please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: > >>http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix(more than 1760 members & > >> 1,00,000 messages on 21/12/11) or Efloraofindia website: > >>https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/(with a species database > >> of more than 6000 species). > >> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > >> India'. > > > -- > > Prasad Kumar Dash > > Ecologist, Orissa, India > > email: prasad.dash2...@gmail.com > > ph. 09437444241
