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photography me photography me a personal blog about nature photography and myself sunday june 10 2012 praying mantis 101 i started this blog about 5 years ago and at that point of time i had no idea where this blog would be headed i wasn t sure of what to do in this blog what to post or anything whatsoever i just wanted a site where i could post my photos i never knew that i would continue posting for 5 years and the url of the blog praying mantis 101 was just a sudden idea that came into my mind well needless to say the praying mantis was my favourite insect and it still is i find the praying mantis very fond of humans especially the larger ones they don t always try to escape they sometimes watch you and look straight into your eyes and i don t know why but most of the large praying mantises i come across just love to fly onto my face well now that i ve been posting for 5 years i guess it s time for a break not that i want this break but because i need it i spend quite a lot of time going out for photography and as much time organizing and posting these photos on my blog and i m no freebie i m a student who needs to focus on studies as well now i m in 11th grade and for me these 2 years are the most vital the most important 2 years when it comes to deciding my future and apart from that i stay in a boarding school now in bangalore and they don t let you access the internet that often it s india so i d like to take this opportunity to thank each and everyone of you who have viewed my blog and posted your wonderful and encouraging comments it is only because of you guys that i feel the urge to continue posting and now i won t be doing so for a while but that doesn t mean its the end i may appear again during my holidays for one or two posts and in the meantime you could always browse through the 500 posts i ve published on this blog so that s it thank you all for your support wishing everyone the best in their future endeavours cheers shawn posted by shawn at 2 19 pm 12 comments saturday june 9 2012 the snake on the tree rat snakes probabaly the most common snakes here in kerala but i never really got to photograph one well due to their shyness and speed but just a day before school this little rat snake decided to give me a treat i was walking to my neighbour s house when i spotted the snake on a mullberry tree i thought these snakes were poor climbers but well i was proven wrong the snake was happily resting on the tree perhaps waiting for a bird or lizard to appear so it could grab and have a snack or maybe it was just watching the world from a different point of view the snake didn t slither away when i came close to shoot it but it was very well aware of me as it kept sticking its tongue out whenever i moved a beautiful snake indeed i d be glad if these snakes are around as they re harmless and useful as they help reduce the rat rodent population in the area posted by shawn at 1 37 pm 2 comments labels india kerala reptile snakes monday may 28 2012 narrow mouthed frog i was hanging out with my neighbor at his place one rainy evening when we hear several loud frog calls from a nearby stream upon taking a look we spotted a pretty large frog in the shallow water as i didn t have my camera with me my neighbor lent me his nikon l110 to grab these few shots we sneaked closer to the frog till he hopped onto the gravel i haven t been able to precisely identify this frog except that it is a species of narrow mouthed frog this can be seen from its small and pointed mouth it could be a jerdon s narrow mouthed frog but that species is near threatened and only found in the evergreen forests of south india posted by shawn at 5 49 pm 2 comments labels amphibian india kerala sunday may 27 2012 night in bangalore a night shot of a rather busy street in bangalore i went there early this may for an admission into a school there yeap that s right i m leaving this dreaded place kerala posted by shawn at 4 31 pm no comments labels india karnataka landscapes night saturday may 26 2012 riverside i recently took a ride to see a relative at his home about a night from mine on train just a minute s walk from his house is this beautiful river surrounded by lush greenery i ve been to many riversides but none of them actually caught my attention like this one not many people actually come to this particular spot and so it was clean and unpolluted i was excited when my cousin told me that smooth otters often frequent this spot however it s a matter of luck when it comes to spotting them we didn t get to see any while we were there close to the river is a tiny path that takes you to the main road ahead the path is so narrow it s just wide enough for one of us to barely fit through the tall sides are full of burrows too probably filled with snakes and other creatures further down the river a narrow wooden bridge has been constructed across so that people are able to walk from one bank to the other the bridge is extremely shaky and one will definitely have to hold on to the side railings in order to get across a view of the river taken from the tiny bridge posted by shawn at 4 26 pm 3 comments labels india kerala landscapes friday may 25 2012 dead water snakes while walking along the mounds in the middle of the wet fields i came across 2 dead snakes now i don t know how they were killed or who or what killed them the first one as shown below was lying in the shallow water with its ventral side up i then took the snake up with a stick and placed it on the ground to try and identify it all i can say is that it is a species of watersnake maybe a keelback and after walking several minutes i encountered another dead snake this one too in the water with its ventral side up i m concluding that these snakes died probably due to humans or birds like herons killing and throwing them away i did spot a live one but it immediately swam into the muddy water before i could grab a shot posted by shawn at 11 28 pm 1 comment labels india kerala reptile snakes birding in the wet fields there are a number of large wet paddy fields close to my house here although not biodiversity hotspots in any way a walk through these fields once in a while might yield some interesting results during the monsoons these fields are said to be filled with water snakes especially in the muddy water anyway i decided to head out to one of these large fields one afternoon to practice birding the most common birds here were these storks herons since it was sunny and bright it was possible to shoot the birds in flight with fast shutter speeds without worrying about shake another common bird within these fields was the purple swamphen i never knew of such birds in the locality as these wet fields are so far the only places i ve ever encountered them look at this guy peeking from the tall grasses he was barely visible from such a distance a group of birds and one flies off posted by shawn at 12 38 am 2 comments labels birds india 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