Vinaya Mathews, PPSA
March 2026 - Munnar
About the Image(s)
Munnar is one of the hill stations of south India. Famous for tea plantations.
ISO 100, 1/4 secs, f9, Canon R6 24-1-5 with tripod
12 comments posted
Vinaya, the tea plantations in Asia are just impressive. I witnessed one in Viet-Nam. I like very much a show the sun rays are picking out the clouds and towards the plantation. The green is very nice. Posted: 03/04/2026 13:46:48
Thank you Isaac. Yes, tea plantations are picturesque. In Vietnam they are more picturesque, but Munnar is also nice place to visit.
By any chance, if you visit Munnar, pl visit my place too. My place is just 80 kms from Munnar. I will be very happy to receive you Posted: 03/06/2026 09:19:05
By any chance, if you visit Munnar, pl visit my place too. My place is just 80 kms from Munnar. I will be very happy to receive you Posted: 03/06/2026 09:19:05
I just returned from a trip to Central India to see the tigers. Most images I took were at the parks after sunrise and got very few landscape images. There is pervasive haze in virtually every image I got due to the pollution, and the few landscape images I created did not remove the haze over the landscape. Your image, OTOH gets the landscape colorful devoid of the haze and you have a good image with the sun rays peeking out of the hazy sun. Since you used a tripod, you might have produced an even more dramatic shot if you used a combination of ND filters to about 8-10 stops. That probably would have made the sun rays more pronounced. Working with stacking ND filters is tricky and I don't hold myself out as an authority; only a practicing amateur. But those filters can accentuate the details in a long exposure of a landscape such as this. Posted: 03/04/2026 15:19:59
Which tiger reserve you visited? Happy to know that you visited India but upset to know that you didnt get good images.
Generally tiger reserves will not have pollution, so I wonder which place you visited?
Munnar is the hill station of Kerala, Southern state of India. It is crowded but not pollution as such. Famous for good landscapes of tea plantations.
Thanks for suggestion. Will keep in mind Posted: 03/06/2026 09:27:47
Generally tiger reserves will not have pollution, so I wonder which place you visited?
Munnar is the hill station of Kerala, Southern state of India. It is crowded but not pollution as such. Famous for good landscapes of tea plantations.
Thanks for suggestion. Will keep in mind Posted: 03/06/2026 09:27:47
I visited four parks: Brandhavgarh, Pench, Kanha and Satpura, all in Central India. I captured a heap of great tiger images, plus other wildlife, sloth bears in particular. At Prandhavgarh in an afternoon game drive on our second day, the park naturalist on sighting a tiger coming out of the bush: m"That's T-32!" T-32 is a 12-year old female with a broken tail that hadn't been seen in over 5 months. The naturalist said we were extremely lucky to see this tiger, as she's beyond her cub-bearing years and is quite elusive. all the parks were enveloped in a haze that gave landscapes an 'overcast' view, such as the image I'm showing you below. Posted: 03/06/2026 10:01:55
Vinaya, I also captured some great tiger pictures that I'm sure will do well in competition. Here's one of them: Posted: 03/06/2026 10:03:19
OMG! What a shot you got of tiger, Alan! excellent Posted: 03/12/2026 04:22:43
Just luck, Vinaya. Being in the right place at the right time (with the correct camera settings, of course). Posted: 03/12/2026 04:38:20
4 major tiger reserves? wow, that's great!
Haze must be of winter. the chances of pollution at national parks, cant believe. Of course, if you say so, it must be but still. Happy that you got tigers & oth animals. Our group is of street, so you cant share here but let me know your insta handle, so that I will chk th Posted: 03/12/2026 04:29:23
Haze must be of winter. the chances of pollution at national parks, cant believe. Of course, if you say so, it must be but still. Happy that you got tigers & oth animals. Our group is of street, so you cant share here but let me know your insta handle, so that I will chk th Posted: 03/12/2026 04:29:23
Vinaya, unfortunately I may be one of the very few who does not partake in social media. I have no Facebook Account, no Instagram account, no website, nothing. I only post alb ups to my camera club's website, but unfortunately, you have to be a member to access those albums. I can send you a couple of pictures, if you want, however. Posted: 03/12/2026 04:40:35
Vinaya, I have never been to India. Thanks so much for sharing the tea plantation. I especially appreciate the sunrays. Posted: 03/06/2026 16:33:32
Thank you, Pamela, India is a beautiful country, heaven for travel & street photography along with all the flaws of developing country e.g. crowd Posted: 03/12/2026 04:21:51