{"id":7117,"date":"2012-01-21T10:26:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T04:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/?p=7117"},"modified":"2012-01-21T10:32:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T05:02:22","slug":"photography-in-melukote-a-darter-day-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/photography-in-melukote-a-darter-day-out.html","title":{"rendered":"Photography in Melukote \u2013 A Darter Day Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have had several requests all through last year to conduct photography-centric day-trips out of Bangalore. Here is the first of a series of them to come.<\/p>\n<p>You will recognize a fragrance of heritage in every corner of Melukote. The old temples, the large Kalyani that has hosted several movie shoots, the smaller Raya Gopura that also has its beauty tested in the movies, a Sanskrit Academy, two ancient temples, a Vaishnava heritage that is preserved as good as it was a few centuries ago and several houses, temples and structures that have a stamp of past all over them &#8212; a quick glimpse of Melukote for you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/melukote-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7107\" title=\"melukote\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/melukote-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"melukote\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/melukote-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7108\" title=\"melukote\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/melukote-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"melukote\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/melukote-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7109\" title=\"melukote\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/melukote-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"melukote\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/melukote-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7110\" title=\"melukote\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/melukote-4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"melukote\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/melukote-5.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7111\" title=\"melukote\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/melukote-5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"melukote\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/melukote-5-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/melukote-5-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/melukote-7.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7113\" title=\"melukote\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/melukote-7-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"melukote\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/melukote-3.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nSee full details of the event &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/darter\/melukote-photography\">photography in Melukote<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had several requests all through last year to conduct photography-centric day-trips out of Bangalore. Here is the first of a series of them to come. You will recognize a fragrance of heritage in every corner of Melukote. The old temples, the large Kalyani that has hosted several movie shoots, the smaller Raya Gopura [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,281,23,314,53],"tags":[552,317],"class_list":["post-7117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangalore","category-darter","category-karnataka","category-photography-tours","category-travel-photography","tag-darter","tag-melukote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xrJt-1QN","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7120,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117\/revisions\/7120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}