Thanks Rajesh for sharing this touching incident. It is great that inspite of your ill health you completed the trek and guided the group successfully. I am sure all your wishes to photograph the Brahmakamal will be fulfilled during the next trek. Thanks for sharing the pics. Though you have clicked them from a distance they look beautiful. I liked them Regards Bhagyashri On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:44 AM, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, Rajesh ji. > It's great that you completed the trek despite your poor health. > Your story is really great & touching. > I now how the people really feel after seeing 'Brahma Kamal'. > It's akin to seeing the God itself for a moment. > > On 3 January 2013 00:40, Rajesh Sachdev <[email protected]>wrote: > >> There are few excursions or trips designed to target particular species, >> let it be birds, butterflies or flora. There is one or more then one >> species that are in wishlist of such excursions and without which >> those excursions remain incomplete. When I was designing the Valley of >> Flowers trip for the joint group of eFI and Indian Flora , I had one such >> species in my mind as target. And that is not only me most of people who >> visit VoF have such feeling that they must see that flower. The flower is >> Brahma Kamal. >> >> Four months of desperation, I realised that I am medically unfit for VoF. >> Viral fever and lose of weight put me in week category and doctor declared >> me unfit for such tough trek. But there were reasons for me to still do it, >> JUST DO IT. (a) Commitment to 20+ participants and (b) willingness to see >> my target flower. >> >> On the day one while trekking up from Govind Ghat to Ghanghariya my >> health collapsed. The trek, for good 13 Kms and uphill, was full of flowers >> on both sides and I kept on ignoring. Just because my mind was not >> concentrating on them but on my collapsing health. Day 2 was fine >> and comparatively better. Thanks to Smita Raskar for supporting me and >> offering me tablets etc. Day 3 was suppose to be for Hemkund Saheb, the >> only place where I could have seen Brahmakamal. And on this day again I >> started feeling uncomfortable. I somehow managed to reach to point from >> where I could see a flower or two and click them using the maximum zoom >> from my digital camera. Very blur and dull pic, I could secure. Today, >> when I have redesigned the VoF tour (in fact 2 tours in June & in August) , >> that sense of incompleteness is chasing me. That sense is asking me to go >> and click your beloved flower, more closely and sharply. With god's >> blessing today I have better camera and I wish and pray to my god that " >> Waheguru ji, give me strength and willpower to complete my mission and >> photograph my beloved flower . The flower that has Shri Hemkund Saheb in >> the background and snow clad mountain on either side". >> >> With this wish, I am presenting my flora (remote) picture of the year >> 2012 for my beloved Brahma Kamal >> >> -- >> Regards >> Rajesh Sachdev >> https://www.facebook.com/matherana.rajeshii >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/indianflora/ >> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > 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 2030 members & > 1,42,000 messages on 31/12/12) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database > of more than 7500 species). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > -- > > > > -- Regards Bhagyashri --
