Ooty

Arguably the most popular hill station in southern India.

homes set on the steep hillside
Ooty

homes set on the steep hillside

Ooty, abbreviated from Udhagamandalam, is a resort town in the Western Ghats, in Tamilnadu. This town was the British Raj's summer resort, with a steam railway line connecting to Mettupalayam.

Village on the way to Ketti

Ooty

| Ketti Valley View Point

Village on the way to Ketti

GALLERY

Ooty

Ooty Town

homes set on the steep hillside

Ooty

Ketti Valley View Point

Village on the way to Ketti

2012

Chimpanzee

The many expressions of a chimp at the Mysore Zoo.

2009

Rashtrapati Bhavan

Here are a few photographs taken from outside the president's palace.

2013

Taj Mahal

Taj was closed on the day I landed in Agra. Just because of that I went around to see a different taj...

2007

Adalaj

Architecturally thrilling 5 storied stepwell in Gujarat

2005

Poor man's Taj!

Aurangzeb's son built this, in fact to rival the taj.

2004

Ooty Railway Station

Officially Udagamandalam, the last station in the Nilgiri Mountain Railway.

2004

Padmanabhaswamy temple

Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu at Thiruvananthapuram.

2004

Peafowl

A photograph from the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P52 days!

2004

Zoo Shots

A collection of photographs taken @ various zoos

2004

Elephants at Zoo

2005

Bekal Fort

The laterite fort in north Malabar built by the Ikkeri Naikas.

2013

Orchid

Orchid with prime lense, mostly...

2004

Toda Hut

This photograph was selected as the 'Featured Picture' by the Wikipedia community.

2021

Annual Candytuft

Annual candytuft shot in Fatehpur Sikri in 2009

2021

Ravana @ at Mount Kailash

Ravana's encounter at Mount Kailas is a very popular iconography theme.

2005

Discovery of Ajanta Caves

Since 2nd century BCE, Ajanta Caves have had this peculiarity of going into a cycle of oblivion & re-discovery.

2013

Nifty Fifty

EF 50mm f/1.8 II, the Nifty Fifty of Cannon lenses.

2021

SKETCH BOOK

Random pages from my sketchbook

2012

Sholinghur

The hilltop Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy temple at Sholinghur.

2023

Torch Ginger

Porcelain rose flower in Coorg

2012

Achankovil

Achankovil is a small village deep inside the Westernghats forest.

2012

Coffee!

A visit to coffee plantations in Wayanad.

2001

Oil Paintings

Some of my paintings and sketches....

2012

Bamboo Bloom

Many times we passed through the Nagarhole forests in the past, but this time it was not the usual lush green forest that greeted us.