Thanks, Rajesh ji, For organising such a big expedition. All the best for the team.
On 7 July 2012 21:08, Rajesh Sachdev <[email protected]> wrote: > Gurcharan Sirji, > Thank you very much for your valuable inputs...I would surely follow them. > I am forwarding your email to all 37 participants who are travelling in my > group, under great leadership of Balkar Singh ji. I am sure they would be > happy to be at the receiving end of your suggestions. > > regards > Rajesh > > > On 7 July 2012 16:50, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear members >> Let me first wish the members visiting Valley of Flowers next month, a >> happy and enjoyable journey, memory cards, pen drives and external hard >> discs full of lovely photographs (they will need it thanks >> digital photography which allows you to take as many photographs as >> possible without much recurring expenditure; it will be useful if one or >> two members have a small laptop to download pictures from camera into >> storage drives for other members also). I wish I was a part of it, my long >> standing desire. Unfortunately I won't be a part of this dedicated team of >> explorers, as I am flying to USA towards the end of this month. >> I have seen and to some extent had some role to play in making members >> to get identifiable photographs. It was a practice (and still with many >> often citing time constraint) to take a single (or a few) close up of the >> flower only that makes identification a difficult task most of the times. >> More so digital photography often gives very confusing estimate of size, >> unless a measurable object or scale is used. The size of plant, size and >> shape of leaves, their insertion, arrangement of flowers on the >> inflorescence axis, bracts (presence, size and shape), pedicel (presence or >> absence and length if present), size of calyx in relation to corolla >> (including size relation of lobes and tube), corolla colour, length, >> diameter; number of sepals, number of petals, size relation of corolla tube >> and lobes, numbers of stamens and length, numbers of styles and stigmas and >> their length in relation to ovary, the type, shape and size of fruit are >> all important characters very crucial in identification. More so in >> different families different characters hold more importance, which even >> not the trained taxonomists may know for all the families. >> I am not here to confuse you the least. Just enjoy your trip and >> photography. Forget about these terms if you are not a botanist. Just take >> a few good photographs of each plant that you encounter, upload it when you >> come back, and let the experts extract the identifying features from your >> photographs. I hope it would be ideal if you bring back at least four good >> photographs of a plant: >> >> 1. Habit of the plant, showing a twig well in focus, taken from side of >> the branch. >> 2. Close up of the flower from side so that its insertion on the axis is >> visible. >> 3. Close up of the flower from the top so that corolla, stamens and >> carpels are in focus. >> 4. A close up of the fruit (in available. >> Any additional photograph would be a bonus, but please don't miss any of >> these as far as possible. >> Please spend an extra shot of a small twig with flowers along side a >> scale (a pen especially its tip pointing the objec; or on your palm so that >> you can later estimate size) to get accurate estimate of size of flowers >> and leaves (and by inference other parts. >> >> Again wishing you a Happy and fruitful trip of Valley of Flowers >> >> >> -- >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Retired Associate Professor >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >> http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> >> > > > -- > Regards > Rajesh Sachdev > http://project-matheran.webs.com > https://www.facebook.com/leopardguy > > > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg 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 1900 members & 1,20,700 messages on 30/6/12) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 7000 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'.
