I live in Bangalore(Bengalooru), the Capital City of Karnataka State
in southern India. Bangalore is located about 3,000 feet above the Mean Sea
Level and has a comfortable climate throughout the year. Bangalore is known as
the "Silicon Valley of Asia" and the "Garden City of
India". It is the fastest growing city of Asia and the "Information
Technology Capital of Asia". Its cosmopolitan image and the growing
Software and other Industries have made it the "City of the Future"
in the new Millennium. Bangalore is blessed with beautiful Parks and Lakes,
which provide shelter for many Birds. Bangalore is close to many Bird and
Wildlife Sanctuaries like Kokkare Bellur, Ranganathittu, Bandipur and
Nagarahole apart from many lesser-known ones. Bangalore receives many winter visiting
Birds many of whom nest. Bangalore is home to many World-renowned Wildlife and
Nature Photographers like E.Hanumantha Rao, T.N.A.Perumal, M.Y.Ghorpade,
B.Srinivasa and many more. It is the guidance from these Photographers and the
exposure to their pictures that has made many budding Photographers of
Bangalore successful.
India is the vast subcontinent of Asia - two-thirds of
Europe in superficial area - with its diversified geographical and climatic
conditions provides suitable living conditions to a great variety of Birds.
Covering about 40 degrees of latitude and about the same of longitude, it
encloses within its boundaries a vast diversity of climate and physical
features. These range from dry, scorching sandy deserts of Rajasthan and the
humid evergreen rain forests of Assam and the southern Western Ghats, to the
region of Glaciers and eternal snow in the mighty Himalayas. Smooth wide spaces
of depressed river basins lie along the base of the northern ramparts. The
great central India and Deccan plateau succeed the fertile Gangetic Plain and
are flanked on the west by broken crags and castellated outlines of the ridges
of the Western Ghats which overlook the Arabian Sea and continue southward in
gentle, smoothly rounded slopes of green uplands-the Nilgiris and other hills
of southern India. The Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal
flank the southern peninsular India.