{"id":2907,"date":"2010-01-03T16:50:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T11:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/?p=2907"},"modified":"2010-01-23T17:35:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T12:05:07","slug":"looking-back-at-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/looking-back-at-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Looking back at 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With more than 250 posts, 2009 was the most active year on India Travel Blog. Despite that, I am yet to complete writing about places I have visited more than a year ago. I also increased focus on photography and started a series on travel photography, writing articles to help in making better images. The prominent stories of the year were the series on <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/posts-from-rajasthan.html\">Rajasthan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/ladakh-chronicles.html\">Ladakh<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/category\/travel-photography\">travel photography<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/tag\/badami\">Badami<\/a>. There were 6 <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/category\/others\/book-review\">book reviews<\/a> in all. There were also reports on visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/riding-on-bullet-thunderbird-bangalore.html\">Kasargod<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/a-short-visit-to-chikmagalur.html\">Chikmagalur<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/shimla-and-mashobra.html\">Shimla<\/a> and a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/category\/photos\">photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2910\" title=\"mashobra\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/mashobra.jpg\" alt=\"mashobra\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I do not know yet about where I would travel and what I would write about in 2010. There are many images to post and stories to write from the past trips, which should keep me occupied for next 3-4 months. I am likely to focus more on making better pictures and take baby steps into making small travel video snippets whenever possible. I would love to hear from you about what would you like to see on this page in 2010. Do leave a comment and let me know your suggestions. I also started accepting guest posts in 2009, though in small numbers. I intend to increase it slightly, adding one or two guest posts from willing contributors every month.<\/p>\n<p>I wish you a very fruitful and happy year ahead. May you have a great year ahead and may all your wises come true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With more than 250 posts, 2009 was the most active year on India Travel Blog. Despite that, I am yet to complete writing about places I have visited more than a year ago. I also increased focus on photography and started a series on travel photography, writing articles to help in making better images. 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