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Ugly /Bon Jovi [ Panaroma's of Meghalaya ]

Posted in Download, Nature, Photography, Travel with tags , , , , on July 1, 2008 by Neerod

I admit it. I am new to this stitching panaroma things. Still I can’t help sharing these two I have made of the snaps taken in Meghalaya. The one on top is of the Shillong City, taken from the Shillong point (which is inside an airbase mind you) and the other one is from the outskirts of the Sacred forest of the Khasis (the local ethnic tribe that lives in the region).

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As you can see, there is a local football field being developed at the side of the Sacred forest. But there are also prehistoric stones and stone furnitures (dolemons, chairs, markers) at the far side of the field. Enough chit chat -on with more practice to get the panaromas right. Thats why I am naming this ‘ugly’ -which it is not, if you get what Bon Jovi is trying to say.

If you are interested in making these panaroma’s, I would like to direct you to use Autostitch and Hugin -both softwares are wonderful in their work. Autostitch does most of the work for you, but the end result may not always be as big as you would have liked it to be. While Hugin can make Big Big pictures, but there are lot of options that needs to be tweaked, otherwise you will have a messy picture in your hand. My advice? Go for Autostitch for quick and dirty job -and handle the good ones the pain-staking way in Hugin.

Heaven /Bryan Adams [ Meghalaya... ]

Posted in Nature, Travel with tags , , , , on June 3, 2008 by Neerod

 

DCT TravelBdgA few weeks back I had the fortune of taking a sudden decision to visit Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya in India. The journey by road was breathtaking to say the least -you get it all starting from long expansive roads on the plains of Bangladesh with rivers crisscrossing to the trek up the hill as you climb up to Meghalaya.

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Meghalaya – justly named by Rabindranath Tagore, the greatest bengali poet that ever lived, is a land of mysticism and enchantment. Drizzling rains and evergreen foliage and the pines will mesmerize any visitor. I do not understand why people compared it to Scotland though, to me, Shillong has an entirely different appeal than the Highlands.

This is one of the best picture I have taken in that memorable journey. No, this is not from inside Meghalaya, as the plains of my motherland justifies – but still it gave me the first glimpse of Meghalaya -the home of the clouds – as it truly is.

Heaven is one of the most, all time, romantic songs sang by Bryan Adams. Meghalaya, in the same tune, can be termed as heaven.