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Many Worlds of Hampi – The Photography Tour

Our second edition of the photography tour of Hampi is scheduled for the weekend of February 19th. We call it ‘Many Worlds of Hampi,’ as the tour will see several faces of Hampi and not just the famed archeological riches. The places we go to photograph includes vantage points to photograph beautiful landscape that includes hills, boulders and the river in the view with colourful sunsets and sunrises. We will also see some wildlife, which primarily includes sloth bears, water birds and some rare ground birds. And of course we will see and capture a lot of the remains of the Vijayanagar Empire and the temple ruins strewn across Hampi. I will be with you in all these places, assisting you with compositions and photography techniques during all three days of the tour.

The tour also includes detailed sessions on basics of photography and in-depth sessions of travel, landscape and wildlife photography. The sessions are designed to benefit beginners as well as those getting serious with their cameras. While having a good camera is an advantage, even those owning a basic camera too can benefit from the tour. The tour will have a limited number of participants, helping us offer every participant a personal attention and do images reviews at the end of the day everyday.

See more details and register for the tour. Also join the facebook page of Darter Photography Tours to see some images shot by participants of the previous photography tour of Hampi and to stay updated on our upcoming tours.

Here are some images of the places that we will visit during the tour.

Landscapes

hampi landscapes

hampi landscapes

Architecture

hampi architecture

hampi architecture

Wildlife

hampi wildlife

hampi wildlife

Go here to see more details about the tour and to register. See some images shot by participants of the last tour on facebook page of Darter Photography Tours.

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Chadar Trek

Also: see details of Chadar Expedition in January 2012, lead by tour leader Manish Lakhani

I am just back from a fourteen-day trek in Ladakh, walking on the ice-shelf of Frozen Zanskar River. They were fourteen amazing days of walking in the depths of the narrow gorges through which the river often flows. The beautiful and clear blue river flowed gently next to us all the way, sometimes disappearing into the depths of the ice shelf and again emerging a little while later. To each side of the river were tall walls of Zanskar Ranges that cut us off from rest of the world. We mostly walked on solid ice but sometimes climbed up the rocks where the ice-shelf (or chadar, as they usually call it) was broken. Here is a picture from the trek, taken from our camp on Day 2. More images and stories from the trek will follow in the coming days.

chadar trek