Phansad wild life sanctuary and Kashid beach

Phansad wild life sanctuary and Kashid beach - Travellers re-union

It is like a thirst.

I drift on.....
the river never dries,
like a boat in that time
I float on your command.

Then, I wake up like two leaves in a dead wood,
take the wind, take a walk by the riverside,
I feel alive, I feel the world Green,
I smile.

I haven't taken a single day leave in last 11 months, for me.
But I have consumed almost all my leaves in hospitals in last 6 months.
This very thought one day made me tired of my routine, and hence decided to take one day off to have a three days of continuous off to do something I haven't done, yet.

I actually haven't thought that so clearly in my mind, but things kind of happened that way because of Sumitro, my friend cum brother in travels and living.

A village lady -

I have once only done bird photography with a dwarf 200mm manual focus, Russian tele. Friends were having Canon and Nikon tall lenses of 400 ~ 500 mm focal length. I didn't wanted to carry such canons anyway, they cost more than many of my cars too.

Years gone by, I made many more dear friends in the hobby world. One such friend, Santosh Thakur kindly lend his 300mm f2.8 lens to me in my 3 days escape to "riverside".

Bird photography and wild life photography is literally tough. doing that with manual focus lens is almost like trying to make a pyramid of Egypt alone with a hammer of Thor.

By the time I focus it, birds get bored. And being a lover of content and composition photography I used that lens for landscape too. Here are some of those tries that came well.

A tele lens in the hand of a landscape composer ends like this photograph -

The giant squirrel froze the moment it saw me on the turn. It didn;t move for another two minutes or so. Enough for me to put my monopod below the lens, trying and failing to find it through a a narrow field of view of an effective 900mm focal length lens viewfinder, and then focus it.