Congrats to Shyam ji & his team, for such splendid efforts. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: SHYAM GHATE <[email protected]> Date: 24 August 2012 09:00 Subject: HOPE EXHIBITION 2012 - WILD FLOWERS OF INDIA To:
Dear all, The HOPE exhibition 'Wild Flowers of India' was successfully concluded last week-end. There was a large turn-out of visitors. And we had a few special visitors in Shrikant Ingalhalikar (Flowers of Sahyadri fame), Shreesh Kshirsagar ( Bahar fame), Sudhir Shivram (India Naturewatch fame) along with many of you who had contributed the lovely images. We had divided the photographs into various sections covering Western Ghats, Endemic, Wild Flowers, Orchids, Relationships, Landscapes, Trees, Ephemerals, Medicinal, Insectivores, Himalayan, Exotics, Endangered, etc. Each section was preceded by an introduction in English as well as Marathi. All visitors who entered their remarks in the visitor's book made special mention of the fact that the photographs were accompanied by so much information. Out of the 407 photographs on display, about 395 had been identified. Mr Ingalhalikar who visited the exhibition on the first day, devoted lot of time to go around the exhibition and help us correct some of the ids and id the previously unidentified flowers. On the first evening, we had the function for release of two revised editions of Ingalhalikar's books. Smt Ushapprabha Page, an avid trekker and wild-flower lover, released Flowers of Sahyadri, whereas Shri Nilimkumar Khaire, founder of Pune Sarpa Udyan and 'granddad' of the sarpamitramovement in Maharashtra, releasedAasamant, the Marathi book. On the second evening, we had the pleasure of the company of Shreesh Kshirsagar, popular author of Marathi books Bahar and Fulva, for over 3.5 hours of which he spent 1.5 hours in a very educative, stimulating and entertaining interactive session with HOPE members and visitors. Thanks to you all for making such a wonderful event happen. We have taken images of your pictures on display and Yuwaraj Gurjar will be sending them to you shortly. We will continue to look forward to your participation in Hope activities in future as well. Cheers __,_._,___ -- 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 & 1,23,300 messages on 31/7/12) 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'. --
