Digital camera's

Optics in camera:

The whole history of camera was started after the invention of optics. The optics is the vast field in physics. The representation of any image of a particular object is been captured by the lens which is present in the camera. The best optics design in the camera will help us to get a beautiful picture. The very basic phenomenon in cameras called “depth of camera”. This logic helps us to focus on the distance object in camera's. 

Lens:

Now-a-days there are so many companies sell camera and they use lens from different venders. So it is your responsibility to find out the best lens used in camera’s, before you buy. 

Working of digital camera's: 

Coming to the point digital camera working, all digital cameras are designed to have an in-built computer and they record image electronically. All the digital camera images are represents in the form of 1s and 0s. This representation is also called as pixels and group of pixels will form a picture or image. To have a digital picture stored in camera, it captures the light waves and then converting to pixels and storing them in the memory module associated in the camera.

The digital cameras will have a CCD (charge coupled device) or CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor); these devices convert the light waves in to electrons.

Pixel value:

Coming to the pixel value of the camera, if you decide to buy a digital camera the first thing you should consider is about the pixel value. Now-a-days there are more than 20x pixel strength camera’s are available. But for a personal use you can buy a 7 x or 8 x digital cameras. This pixel actually defines the resolution of the camera. The resolution is nothing but the amount of details a picture can have.

My camera: 

The camera I use is been depicted in the above image.

Other camera’s available in market a few…

Hope this info would help you in purchasing a digital camera.

Kerala - Gods own city Part II

This is my continuation of my Kerala trip, after we completed the trip from Munar. We had moved to Alleppey, to stay in Houseboat and to enjoy the backwaters of Alleppey and kumarakom. Kerala’s is famous for its unique nature charm, there are lots of other country people who regularly visit Kerala and enjoy the real charm of the Arabian Sea. The greatness in Alleppey and kumarakom is in its breathtaking backwater and beaches. There are so many other backwaters in Kerala they are kovalam, kotayam, Kozhikode etc.

This unique post will tell my experience with Alleppey and Kumarakom. Alleppey is been called as “Venice of East” because of great beauty of nature.

There are lots of different types of boats available to have a great look of the backwaters. The houseboat is available where you can stay for a day or two and enjoy the beauty of the water along with the nature and the motor boats and canoes are also available to go for a short trip visits.

These houseboats will be just like a house where you will have all amenities fitted inside. You will have a bedroom, dining room and so on. This would give you an enjoyable stay like a star hotel but on the river. We had taken a house boat for a day, which cost us around Rs. 8000 per day, provided with a driver and two or three cooks and house keeping people. 

They prepare very authentic Kerala style foods like karimeen fry and all other different type of sea foods are available. Before they start with the food, they would take the order from you. Advise then to use ordinary white rice otherwise you may have to adjust with the brown rice which is authentic Kerala style.

We had also visited the Kumarakom backwater; you could go to a bird sanctuary there with a boat which is located on the Vembanad Lake. The best eco-tourism, the kumarakom house boat stay and back water stay will be very pleasant when compared to Alleppey. 

You can also stay in some lake view resorts which will be nice with the great scenic beauty.

After this backwater places, you can also visit the Arabian Sea, where you will get a nice sunset snaps.

Other than this you could also have an Ayurvedic massage  which will give you a great relaxation and better health. This is a very tradition work in few parts of Kerala and if you get a good message center then you are lucky. 

Jog Falls

Jog falls, is such a beautiful place in India and everyone has to visit and we can even say it as Indian Niagara Falls. I had been to this place sometime back in 2007. We had to go from Bangalore to Jog Falls. So we decided to go to Shimoga first and then to jog falls. We had booked in ticket in advance to Shimoga from Bangalore. There is one train which goes from Bangalore to Shimoga is Shimoga express. From Shimoga we need to go to jog falls. But then we decided to take accommodation is Sagara. Sagara is the nearest place to jog falls. There are so many decent accommodation and restaurants are available in Sagara.  From Sagara we had a temp traveler to reach to the destination jog falls. The great beauty is the route from Sagara to jog falls is extraordinary, unexplained and marvelous scenery. This may be the best I had seen in my life time. The routes are very excellent around Sagara. The real true nature’s wealth is maintained, no much of plastic covers lot of greeneries. It is hardly an hour journey from Sagara to jog falls. Once you reach there you could see the beauty of the falls lies in itself.

Sharavathi River splits up the falls in to four tracks and each track has names as Raja, Roarer, Rocket and Rani. But only thing people would go upset if they visit the falls in the off-season. The time you may go is from July to November and it is the season time. The effect of south west monsoon and north east monsoon are the main sources of water in these regions.

Below are the snaps of Sharavathi Backwater adventures and jog falls.

 

Shivanasamudra Falls

Folks, I recently got an opportunity to go to Shivanasamudra Falls with my office team, which is located on Kaveri River. This is located near to Mysore, Mandaya district. You can go from Bangalore either by bus or car or even by Bike. It is a beautiful Highway travel as the Road is very scenic and enjoyable. Total distance from Bangalore is around 150Kms. Shivanasamudram has two water falls they are Gaganachukki and Bharachukki. Bharachukki is the place where you can go near to the water falls and have lots of fun. There are people who will take you near to the falls. But the thing is you should be little careful as the water is heavy flow over here. Later we visited to Gaganachukki, there you may not able to go near to the falls but then you can cover good snaps there.

The team on the Highway

In the above snap yu would see the beauty of the Highway and the scenic beauty on the road side. 

The team and the Machine

The Fuel station

When we were on the way to Shivanasamudra Falls, we had our breakfast in Kamat Hotel on the Highway. The price was so reasonable and could able to have good food even.

God we have reached

The scenic beauty of Bharachukki falls

The caution made us scary to move further but then we moved further. 

Reached the falls

Once you reach the falls you can have a pleasure boat ride, where they will take you very near to the falls. We were all wet after being enjoyed in the falls. But you have to little careful when you cross the river or trying to go near the falls. Because on season times the water flow would be more. 

Once finished our enjoyment we were about to climb a steep steps, it was too struggle to climb up. But no other go and we started so energitically and atlast reached the cab. Later we had to visit to Gaganachukki.

The scenic beauty of Gaganachukki

Some more to add pleasure to your eyes

Done for the day, we had finished out lunch in a near by hotel and returned back safely!!!!

Coorg district

So it’s been a long time since I had been to a pleasure trip. Hectic work pressure and lots of customer calls, I was very tired. We had a thought of going for a small weekend budget trip. I am currently in Bangalore so had a plan to go with in the same radius, i.e. in and around Bangalore and Mysore. After a long discussion with my wife, we concluded either to go to Chickmangalur or Coorg. Heard from the local people that Coorg would be the nice place to go now and rather than Chickmangalur. From August to November it’s a season time in coorg because the great monsoons flourished the river kaveri with lots and lots of water. Most of the south Indians knew that coorg is the origin of river kaveri. So we had started with the itinerary plan, hearing from lot of travel agency we had concluded with trip details of 2 Nights and 3 days plan. The trip was planned to start from Bangalore via Mysore to Madikeri. Every one was very familiar with Coorg, so what is Madikeri?

Madikeri is the district headquarters for Coorg and it is with the elevation of about 1500mts above the sea level. So it the coolest place compared to Bangalore but more temperature compared to Ooty or Kodaikanal. The place is about 260Kms from Bangalore and 122Kms from Mysore. We had booked a tata indiaca from Bangalore to Madikeri. On the way we had a plan to visit Kusal nagar, Tibetians Golden temple and Nisargadhama. Kusal Nagar is on the way to Madikeri, Kusal nagar has lot of Tibeatian settlers and maintains the complete city in a unique way. This place even you can call as Indian Tibet because lots and lots of Tibetian people. I was first surprise to see the people there and later get to know from our cab driver that Tibetian live there in Huge numbers. The entire kushal nagar is so liverly as well as so calm and the wonderful Tibetian architecture is seen around. The Tibetean Golden temple is the place where the Great discover of peace is living, and that is no one else but the Buddha. He is the Great scientist, who had discovered peace and still remains in all our hearts.

Later we had visited to Nisargadhama, a forest resort where you could find only deer’s and lots of bamboo trees around.

Nice place to sit and relax for some time as the Journey was long from Bangalore.

We thought that was enough for the day, so we had reached the Madikeri with lots of tiredness. But once after seeing the place we could able to refresh ourselves with enjoyment. Since we had a little baby with us, we had taken accommodation in a Home stay with a great view of the mountains. The advantage of taking this type of Home stay is to have a home food prepared in a traditional way and been served to us. The place where we stayed was so good and I would thank for the food which was provided for us. The complete hospitality of these people was so extra-ordinary. We had a small nap and then pulled our seat belt in the evening to visit around the city. There is a place called Raja seat in Madikeri, was a very pleasant park with a great scenic 360 degree view of the Nature.

The blowing wind and the small train safari is very nice in this raja seat. We had to missed the opportunity of going in the rain as we were late that day but could able to site and enjoy the great pleasure, we also had some hot Gobi Manjurian on the road side.

Day 2, we had a plan to visit Thala kaveri and Abbey falls. The thala kaveri was around 45Kms from Madikei. This is the great Naadhimula(Origin of River - sanskrit) of kaveri starts almost in 2sqfeet space.

The water stream starts from here and ends in Bay Bengal via Tamil Nadu. This is an implausible thing, how a great river could origin in such a small place like this. This was a wonderful experience; the thala kaveri was a Holy place rather than a tourist spot. There comes lots of people who just workship the river and they call it as kaveri matha(Mother). This river starts from Bramagiri hills of kodagu district. There is a belief that the river was outpoured from the kamadala of the great rishi Aagastiya. So in Thala kaveri you could find the pojas are done for Aagasthiya and Siva. There was a very small temple built there for them and the pujas are happening on daily basis. Above this is a great view of three borders of kerala, tamil nadu and Karnataka, but the sadest thing is that you have to climb a vertial mountain through the flight of steps.

Then we have to return to Abbey falls, which is 7kms from Madikeri. This is a falls which you could view by standing on the bridge. We are done for day.

Day 3, we had a plan to visit Dubare and Harangi dam. This was our return trip from Madikeri to Bangalore. We had visited the Dubara elephant raining camp, the awesome experience to see lots of elephant family.

Here are many elephants, each has different names. Some lives more than 60 years. There is a river which we had to cross with the motor boat to go to this training camp. You could have lot of fun like seeing the Elephant taking bath in the river, Elephant ride and the way they feed the elephants.

Later we have visited Harangi dam and then at last we have reached Bangalore on one fine Sunday evening.

NOTE: You can get some coffee powder and some spices in Madikeri.

Kerala - Gods own city

Kerala – Munar – Alleppey – Kumorokom - Cochin

My next trip was planned for my honeymoon, me and my wife had a plan to visit to Kerala (Gods own country). Though we could not cover all the places, but then we want to go to Munar, Alleppey, Kumorokom and Cochin. This is truly an exciting trip for us; we had to go to Munar from Chennai. So the travel was prepared from Chennai to Coimbatore through Nilagiri express. Then we got down at Coimbatore, from there we had booked a cab to Munar.

Commutation from Coimbatore:

Munar is around 150 KMS from Coimbatore, this route is very scenic and enjoyable one.  You may have to go via Pollachi, Udumalaipet and then you will reach Munar. It is advisable to take an early morning trip because you can reach Munar early in the day and also you would be energetic to enjoy the complete trip. You can add morning fuel in Udumalaipet, good hotels are there. We had a great trip, as well as we could see a lot of sceneries like hills covered with clouds, lot of wind mills keeps generating current, lot of coconut trees and we could see some movie shooting happening. 

Once you are about to reach the border of udumalaipet, you have to cross two security gate. One is from Tamilnadu government and the other is from Kerala government.

 

Now the trip moves over and over the mountain to reach Munar, this was an awesome experience. The great pleasure is that you would completely surrender yourself to the Nature, you can see lot of deer on the way and sometimes Elephants even.

As well as you could see lot of water stream running in the mountain, the beauty of the entire scene is unexplained. You go there you would realize a great pleasure and complete peace in mind. 

 

Now, already the mountains started, you could see lot of clouds touching you when you move on. The real chillness you would feel here.  May be you can have a very nice tea some where on the way would help you to enjoy the trip further. 

Rather than I explain you could see the snaps which would help in better understanding of the trip.

The very excitement trip which I had ever had would be this. The tea estates, clouds and a little sunlight over the view would grab your entire mind blowing experience.

We had taken accommodation in Cloud9 resort in Munar (May be 5 Kms from Munar). The beauty of the resort covers the entire view of the tea estates as well the mountain beauty in 360 degree view. This would give a great peace to your mind. Mostly in the night, Cloud9 will treat you with entertainment stuff like limo dance which are performed by the experts and also elephant rides.

 

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Thiruvannamalai

This is about Thiruvannamalai, Arunachaleswarar temple in Tamil Nadu. My first visit to this temple is when I was 7 or 8 years old. I had not felt the great pleasure in that temple in that visit. But later I visited the temple when I was 24; the real beauty of the temple was an unexplained pleasure. The whole temple is like a great entrance of a beautiful solid rock mountain. When you immediately enter in to the temple you would find a great view of the temple along with the mountain behind. Any body enter the temple, would first have a great question how this beauty was made, such an unexplained divine experience. Words just cannot define the beauty of the temple. 

The architecture in and around the temple is excellent, you would find it very different from other temples with in Tamilnadu. 

Girivalam:

Girivalam is the unique feature of this temple. In general, Hindu’s worship the mountain in this place. The term Girivalam means (“Giri-Mountain” “Valam – Going around”) going around the big mountain. This has so many beliefs, like people those who don’t have a child would get baby soon and also people go around the mountain would get lot of good fortunes. People have to go by walking around the mountain which is around 14 Kms, also it is auspicious to go around the mountain on a full moon day.

When you go around this mountain you get an opportunity to see eight different lingams (form of lord shiva).

Indra Lingam, Agni Lingam, Yama Lingam, Niruthilingam, Varunalingam, Vayulingam, Kupera Lingam and Easanya Lingam. 

If you have a chance to visit this place, please do visit and let us know your comments..

Hi Friends, 

This blog is mainly to share you with my travel experience with in India. I will share with you lots of stuff with in south India and soon will discover so many places throughout India. I would like to welcome lot of comments and reviews about my trip and also if you find any similiar places, please post your comments. 

I Luv India.