[Alchemist]

Lovely photographs of the lake. Especially the white tree in the middle of the lake with the apartment blocks in the background. I guess you must have shot all of these "handheld" rather than with a tripod. The latter would have given even sharper pictures. Super overall.

[DCEite]

Hebbal lake with Beary's twin tower apartment in background:

[ampere]

The Yelahanka Lake.

[srishiva]

Previously people were not all that concerned about lakes. You can see a lot of them converted to public places like Kanteerava stadium, Subhasnagar (Majestic), Shivanahalli (bus stand) etc. Old Bengaluru does not have too many lakes for that reason.

[VindyWheels]

Hi Alchemist (nice name),

Yes, all hand held. Does tripod make a difference even in good daylight when shutter speed is reasonably high? I am a student of photography, this will be a learning for me...will do some research.

Thank You

Originally Posted by Alchemist

Lovely photographs of the lake. Especially the white tree in the middle of the lake with the apartment blocks in the background. I guess you must have shot all of these "handheld" rather than with a tripod. The latter would have given even sharper pictures. Super overall.

[VindyWheels]

Visited the Kaikondrahalli lake again, this time in the evening.

Saw many photographers with long ultra-zoom lenses - "Puttukutti" as per my wife (Puttikutti is the cylindrical vessel used for cooking Puttu, a Kerala breakfast item)

Yet to hear views on why some trees in the lake are white in color and why those are the trees in which you find maximum number of birds.

Home Bound...

Not very sharp, but liked the frame.

Heavy PP, hope you like.

[shankar.balan]

Originally Posted by VindyWheels

Visited the Kaikondrahalli lake again, this time in the evening. Saw many photographers with long ultra-zoom lenses - "Puttukutti" as per my wife (Puttikutti is the cylindrical vessel used for cooking Puttu, a Kerala breakfast item) Yet to hear views on why some trees in the lake are white in color and why those are the trees in which you find maximum number of birds. Home Bound... Not very sharp, but liked the frame. Heavy PP, hope you like.

The 'white trees' are invariably deciduous trees which shed all their leaves in Winter.
Now, around February/ March you will see them completely rejuvenate themselves with fresh shoots and fresh leaf growth.
Some of the white trees might be completely dead too, because of root water-logging which can happen to those that are planted around swamps and lakes.

[VindyWheels]

Hi Shankar,

Even I think the tree is white due to the reasons you gave. But a friend of mine pointed out that only the trees that have become the "bird colonies" have the distinct white shade. And the shade itself makes it look as though somebody dumped some white stuff on it.

If you observe th first 2 snaps on page one you will see that the grass below the trees have the same white color sprinkled on them.

So are the trees and grass painted by our feathered friends? If so this is one good example which proves that even s*** can look beautiful

Originally Posted by shankar.balan

The 'white trees' are invariably deciduous trees which shed all their leaves in Winter.
Now, around February/ March you will see them completely rejuvenate themselves with fresh shoots and fresh leaf growth.
Some of the white trees might be completely dead too, because of root water-logging which can happen to those that are planted around swamps and lakes.

[500ContyCruiser]

Posting pic of Hebbal lake captured this weekend

[VindyWheels]

Hi,

Watching sunset at Agara lake is a nice experience. Hopefully this lake will also get rejuvenated.





Cheers

Vindy

[ankan.m.blr]

Sunset at Bellandur Lake

[girishglg]

Nice thread there on capturing some thing that seems obvious to us on a day to day life. Also wondering if anyone have visited the lake near/behind Bannerghatta National Park called Thattekere.

Heard that it is very scenic and desolate even though it is very close to civilization.

[ampere]

Originally Posted by girishglg

Nice thread there on capturing some thing that seems obvious to us on a day to day life. Also wondering if anyone have visited the lake near/behind Bannerghatta National Park called Thattekere.

Heard that it is very scenic and desolate even though it is very close to civilization.

Here you go

cross posting from another thread where I had posted quite some time back.





More details here :
http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/shifti...ml#post2528621

[shuvadips]

Kaikondrahalli Lake on 18th March 2018.

Unfortunately it was an overcast afternoon still got a few shots with my Nikon D3400, 70-300 telephoto lens.

[shuvadips]

Feb 2018 - Chikka Togur lake - Electronic City Phase 1

The birds were pretty far and I was not able to go any closer that what you see.