India Travel Blog Newsletter is sent approximately once a month(sometimes after two months), summarizing the previous month’s activity and giving a glimpse of the coming month on the website. Subscribe to the newsletter by keying in your email address in the box on the top of the sidebar. Here is a copy of this month’s newsletter, dispatched yesterday.
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Here is the July edition of India Travel Blog Newsletter. This newsletter carries a quick summary of posts in the last one month, and a glimpse of posts coming up in next one month.
July 2008 desktop calendar wallpaper is now online. It is a recent image taken from Nandi Hills just outside Bangalore. Visit here to download the calendar in 1024×768 or 1280×800.
The saga of driving from Manali to Leh is now complete. It is a list of 7 posts which has all the details one would like to know about the tough terrain of Manali-Leh Road. Read them all here. The series on Ladakh will continue through the next month, with lots of experiences and information of travel in this high altitude region. It will begin with detailed posts on Leh, followed by other places.
The Travel Photography series has had three posts this month, which included a guest post from Anoop who writes at http://chitra-vihaar.blogspot.com/ . Below are the topics covered this month. See all these posts here.
1. Technically bad images
2. Photographing monsoons
3. Circular Polarizer.
A fellow travel blogger(http://backpakker.blogspot.com/) and I have launched a guided tour program which takes travellers to heartland of the 1000 year old Hoysala Kingdom. The tour involves telling lot of stories and sessions on the interesting history of Hoysala Kingdom. We will visit some fascinating temples that are off the tourist map, visited by very few people. Besides the heritage, we are staying amidst nature in a quiet place in a coffee estate. If time and weather permits, we may even attempt a walk in a coffee estate.. A batch is leaving on coming weekend – July 4th. To register and to know more, see here.
Happy Travels!
India Travel Blog Newsletter is sent approximately once a month(sometimes after two months), summarizing the previous month’s activity on the website. Subscribe to the newsletter by keying in your email address on the top of the sidebar. Here is a copy of this month’s newsletter, dispatched today.
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Hope you are having a good summer of travelling. Here is 12th edition of India Travel Blog newsletter, updating on the latest posts on the blog and informing you on future programs.
May 2009 Calendar is now posted on the blog. The image is from a colourful Kathakali performance, where angry Bheema looks for his enemies in the battle! Visit here to download the picture.
The focus of last month has been photography. A new series on the blog hopes to help travellers take better pictures and come back home with beautiful memories that don’t fade. The series, called ‘Thursday Travel Photography’ is posted every Thursday as the name indicates, providing simple and easy to use tips to improve photography. It has already completed a month with five posts. You can see them all here. Below are the list of topics that were covered this month.
1. Asking permission to shoot people
2. Early mornings
3. Getting the background right
4. Looking for interesting foregrounds
5. Holding the camera stable
I would love to know your feedback on the series, and suggestion on anything that you would like to see covered in this column.
Besides the article, I also review images submitted for critique to assess how the image could have been improved, and what are the things that worked well with the composition. You can also ask questions related to photography and get your doubts clarified. If you would like to submit your images for review, join our flickr group – India Travel and Photography and post images on the group pool. Don’t forget to tag the photo as itpcritique if you would like to see it reviewed next week. You can ask your questions on photography in Group Discussions. The group is also a platform to share your travel photographs or discuss anything you wish to, related to travel and photography.
MONTH OF MAY
The coming month will focus on Ladakh, with extensive travelogue, photographs and information on this mountainous region. The articles posted will be from nearly all the important places in Ladakh, drawn from my two months of wandering in the area last year.
Keep reading and happy travels!