My Marathi Blog

hemant — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:59:06 +0000

I have started my Marathi blog. Due to daily use of English language typing in regional language becomes bit difficult. Inorder to get used to my mother tongue and spread it across the globe I have started the blog in Marathi.

Visit : http://17pixels.wordpress.com

स्टार माझा : माझा मराठी ब्लॉग.

hemant — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:36:25 +0000

स्टार माझा: मराठी ब्लोग. मराठी ब्लोग स्पर्धा ही चांगली कल्पना आहे. मराठी भाषा जागतीक स्तरावर नेण्यासाठी स्टार माझा ने एक चांगले पाऊल घेतले आहे. ह्यासाठी स्टार माझा परिवाराचे मी हार्दिक अभिनंद्नन करतो. आज पासून मराठी मध्ये ब्लोग लिहिण्याचा माझा प्रयत्न असेल. जय महाराष्ट्र.

I am back…

hemant — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:18:27 +0000

After a couple of busy months.. I am back on my blog now. Finally I passed out my Diploma in Cyber Law. Its a new step which I am taking into as a designer which I felt which was very necessary.

Jungle Lore, Breakfast with Butterflies

hemant — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:37:00 +0000

I am back from Breakfast with butterflies event which was organised by JungleLore at Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivali. Well it was a very informative and educational event organised by team Junglelore.Overall the 5 hour event was organised in a proper way. I hope next time many nature lovers will join in for this program in Mumbai.

Adobe CS 4 launch broadcast

hemant — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:21:30 +0000

Please wait till the video loads. Thanks!!

Photo Exhibition “Increditble Nature”

hemant — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:27:16 +0000

The exhibition entitled ‘Incredible Nature’ is an endeavor to awaken the common Mumbaiite to the beauty of nature. The photographs have been clicked & printed by Arvind & Avanindra.
In the year 1972 Mr. Arvind came across a book – An Eye for a Bird – an autobiography of Eric Hosking, the eminent ornithologist and a photographer who devoted his life for the birds. This book inspired him immensely. During the same year he visited Jahangir Art Gallery and saw Black & white photographs of Mr. Bharadwaj (Guruji), which impressed him to pursue the art of nature photography. Since then he has been keenly interested in photographing the beauty in nature especially birds.
To have the perfect printing of his pictures he with his son Avanindra started a colour photo-finishing lab “Skylab Colours”. Now at the age of 70, he has agreed to display his work to the general public.
The photographs of nature displayed at the exhibition are printed using Hewlett Packard’s (HP) Artist Canvas & Vivera pigment inks, which ensures grand colours & shelf life of about 200 years.
The canvas prints will be of sizes ranging from small to extra large which are ideal for home and office display. Limited edition prints will be available for purchase at discounted rates at the exhibition venue.

Venue: Ravindra Natya Mandir, P.L.Deshpande Maharashtra Kala Academy,
Prabhadevi, Mumbai 400 025.

Date & Time: 26th October to 2nd November 2008, 10 am to 8 pm.

Visit www.incrediblenature.in to get a glimpse of nature photographs.

“Call of the Wild” – Wildlife Photography Exhibition

hemant — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:04:47 +0000

Including me as a wildlife photographer I invite you all for the “Call of the Wild” wildlife photographic exhibition being held at :
Venue : P.L.Deshpande Kala Academy, Ravindra Natya Mandir, Prabhadevi, Mumbai.
Date : 6 to 13 September,2008. Time : 10.00 am to 8.00 pm.
This exhibition is organised by Junglelore. It is a step taken to create awareness and encourage people to participate in efforts towards wildlife conservation.
It is an honour to have Mr. Adik Shirodkar Sr.Advocate Mumbai High court & wildlife photographer, Mr.Vilas Gaokar of Shree Swami Samarth Trading Enterprise Pvt. Ltd, Mr. Rohington Mehta – Technical Editor, Smart Photography, Mr.Suresh Thorat – CCF and Mr.Bibhas Amondkar – Naturalist, trekker and photographer at the inauguration event.

Trek to Sudhagad

hemant — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:04:07 +0000

I started my first monsoon trek of year 2008 to Sudhagad which is located approx 10kms from Pali in Maharashtra. Pali is also a famous temple of Lord Ganesh. It comes under the famous Ashtavinayak temples of Maharashtra. This time I was with Junglelore. Before I go ahead let me tell you about Junglelore. It is a group of avid trekkers based in Mumbai. This group has trekked the Sahayadris for more then a decade and they realized the need to protect our man-made monuments. Since the mountains and forts lie in dreadful condition today Junglorelore has taken a step to create awareness among every individual.

The start : As usual I left my house early morning at 4.45am. After a week’s rest the monsoon had started pouring in Mumbai. Our bus started from Dadar at 6.30am. I was excited since the climate was beautiful which also made me feel energetic. haha!!. We reached Thakurli village which is the base village at 9.45 am after crossing Panvel, Pen and Pali. The Sahayadri range was covered with the velvet green grass. Nature was blooming to its fullest in the monsoon season. Oh! what a scene to capture in my camera it was! After our introduction we started our trek at 10.15 am. From the base I saw the black pregnant monsoon clouds gathering at the top of the mountain.The climate was cool enough to relax me while climbing. When we had reached half way,heavy rains and wind had already pulled everyone of us in it’s arms. Finally after 2 1/2 hrs of trek we reached the top. Heavy rainfall and the waterfalls on the way was a very beautiful scene. We had our lunch in a small old house. Sitting in the old house with heavy rains outside and eating your lunch was all together a different experience.
About Sudhagad Fort : It is one of the ancient forts in Shayadri. It was earlier called as ‘Bhorapgad’. During the empire of Shivaji it was named as Sudhagad. The fort is approx 590 metres in height. It is a huge fort. The level of trek is easy.
Let me take you back to the history of the fort. The ‘Thanale’ excavations in this area are nearly 2200 years old. This shows Sudhagad is an ancient fort. The construction and geographical significance indicate that some great rulers might have constructed the fort. Sudhagad was included in ‘Swarajya’ in 1648.
There is a palace of Pant Sachiv on the fort where 50 people can stay. There is also a temple of Bhorai devi. The surrounding area of the fort is covered with dense forest including medicinal plants and trees. Some other beautiful points to visit are Pachchapur Darwaaja, Takmak Tok & Dindi Darwaaja. Due to heavy rains and fog I was not able to visit all the places. From Takmak tok Dhangad,Korigad Tel-Beila can be seen. Also river ‘Amba’ and the surrounding villages can be seen from Takmak Tok. While climbing the mountain I was able to get a fantastic view of Sarasgad which is at Pali Village.

Overall this trek was a very good kick start for me. Thanks to Junglelore team & Tejas Abhyankar from Junglelore who was with us for guiding and making all other arrangements.

One thing I would like to add in short and sweet is — Love and Respect the nature,wild animals and other creatures and try to preserve and respect our historical monuments.

Monsoon Photography with Vineye Photo School

hemant — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:12:43 +0000

Wow!! this is a great news which I came across today. Learning photography skills under Vinay sir is always a great experience for a amateur person like me. So I don’t want to miss this monsoon photography opportunity.
Below are the topics which will be covered at the Monsoon Photography in July 2008 at Malshej Ghat in Maharashtra.
Workshop subject :

Monsoon Photography
Landscape Photography
Macro Photography
Waterfalls Photography
Nature Photography
Composition
Individual work evaluation
For more details visit : vineyephotoschool website.

Launch of Adobe Director 11

hemant — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:15:56 +0000

Wow.. This is one of the great news which I came across. I was missing Director for couple of years. It was like ” Who uses Director”? was a question people used to ask me. But being a Director User from Director 5 onwards I am a big fan of this software. But Adobe has really given a new life to Director 11 with enhanced features.The new features include:

Support for more than 40 video, audio, and image file formats .

Native 3D rendering with DirectX 9 support

Advanced physics with the included AGEIA™ PhysX™ engine

Unicode support, including multimode publishing

Enhanced text rendering engine

Enhanced user interface

Enhanced Script Browser and full JavaScript support

Bitmap filters

Xtra plug-ins

Thanks to Adobe Director 11 team who has come out with this version. I am eager to attend the launch of Director 11 event in India.