Lahaul & Spiti is easily my most favoured location in the Himalayas, for its beautiful and uninhabited landscapes (in Lahaul) and a friendly culture (in Spiti).
I have written much about it in the last few years. A few links to stories on my blog –
The small town of Munnar and its surroundings are blessed with mountain landscapes that is not easily found elsewhere in South India. However, photographing these landscapes is usually a tough task, as the weather remains hazy or cloudy for much of the year and the drama in front of the eyes is not usually captured effectively by the camera. Perhaps the only way to get it right is to plan well and be at the right place at the right time in the right seasons. Here is an image I made last week, when I was leading a Landscape Photography Workshop to Munnar.
This is the morning view from a mountain pass connecting Suryanelli and Kolukkumalai Tea Estates, located to the east of Munnar Town. To get here, we started at 4.30am and made a backbreaking journey through some remote roads to reach just in time for sunrise. But it was a rewarding effort.
Here is the desktop calendar wallpaper for April 2013 – a chestnut headed bee-eater with mountains of Munnar in the background. Download the calendar at 1336×768 or 1024×768 for your desktop.
In the past, I have created wallpaper sizes based on the monitor resolution of readers of this blog. Before the advent of hand held devices, most display devices came in standard sizes and the top three monitor resolutions would account for nearly 80% of the readers. Now, with a large variety of devices in use, there are simply too many resolutions and the top three monitor resolutions now make up less than 50% of the readers. After some thinking, I have decided to make the calendar available in two sizes now on, which are chosen such that either of the two can be stretched to fit on most devices without making the image appear very skewed. Please bear with this.
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