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One may be excused for borrowing cliches from the realm of popular utterances. Then, that is how it does feel when you see sights such as this in real life.
A perma frosted river slam bang in the midst of tropical coconut trees in Bangalore.
This is Bellandur in Bangalore, a place notorious for foul smell, skin rashes and breathing troubles and a prime spot of ecological disaster.
Bellandur Lake is the largest water body in the plateau that is Bangalore. The terrain made it a huge reservoir which cheked the flow of water from the Koramangla and Challaghatta valleys and then slowly discharged it into the Pennar river that flows into Andhra Pradesh and Tamilnadu.
Till the 1980s it was a ecologically sound lake with fishing, irrigation of crops and potable water being drawn from it. The city population exploded in the late 1980s when it became the hub of IT business. Houses and offices sprung up everywhere at a frenetic pace. The income and cash flow generation was enormous. Money flowed everywhere. Business flourished, more people came in. In a few years time, the lake lost its potability, its fishing and its pristine beauty. The clear water became a turbid black pool with hyacinth growing wild.
The storm water drains which used to bring in the excess rain waters into the lake became channels of sewage that the residential and commercial buildings discharged unfiltered into the waterways. The lake just died a quick death. The overpowering stench of hydrogen sulphide and allied sulphur & phosphorus compounds infused the atmosphere all around it. A stench that we in India are familiar with where letting pollutants freely into the eco-space is not regarded as a danger.
Today the lake is about 700-800 acres big and is overgrown with hyacinth and weeds and it has two outflow channels that takes its polluted waters downstream. The public works departments have made two spillways which are narrow and it is here that on rainy days the lake water generates lather and foam that rises up many feet high and it piles up. The rustling wind over the lake ever so often raises large suds in the air and they keep on floating up like soap bubbles in a child’s play toy. At times the foam covers the bridge over the spillway and people have perforce to pass through it.
It is from one of these places that this photograph has been shot on a post rainy day in July 2016.
In the year 2016, we still have this problem and looks like will continue to have it in the near future as well. It is to do with how things are done in India. The Sewage treatment plants filter and throw the water into these water bodies. Even if you consider this as a clean and not a reprehensible act, then you must know that almost 50 percent of these plants do not even work and untreated sewage goes straight in. Secondly the number of STPs are not enough. The government of Karnataka expresses it inability by quoting lack of finances.
The situation is the same as governments in India have always expressed. Take urban transportation. UN, World Bank and a whole host of other nations and institutions had always been willing to fund a metro system in Delhi etc but the government would not take the money as such projects did not have kickbacks and opportunities for contractors to generate bogus bills as a tight fiscal discipline was always a pre requisite for such grants. So it took decades for the Indian government to agree to have the metro system.
That is how the cookie crumbles in India and I guess people in Bangalore as well as the ones living alongside the holy Yamuna river must wait for some succour and common sense to prevail in the corridors of the government where one day they may agree to being funded under a tight fiscal control.
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One the west side of Trail Ridge Rd. we stopped for a bit and as the back of Denise's hat say's this is Colorado's Rocky Mt. National Pk.
The first sighting of one of the young Kingfishers occurred on the day prior to them fledging. This first glimpse was just the end of a beak but we were excited. Maybe if we had a view into the nest we would have seen them earlier.
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After months of repairs to tracks and bridges, the local railroad is once again hauling freight. Bright red new diesel locomotive doing the heavy pulling.
It is not the Moon, it is the Venus.
I took this photo from the balcony last night at 10:38 p.m. and only 10 minutes later Venus had already disappeared behind the horizon.
In addition to the 300mm I used a 1.7x teleconverter in front of the lens here.
Distance to the larger wind turbine in foreground 10km and only 45 million to Venus ;-)
Fichtelberg
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Elevation 1,214.6 m (3,985 ft)
Location
Fichtelberg is located in Saxony
Germany
The Fichtelberg (German pronunciation: [ˈfɪçtəlbɛɐ̯k]) is a mountain with two main peaks in the middle of the Ore Mountains in the east German state of Saxony, near the Czech border. At 1,214.6 m (3,985 ft) above sea level, the Fichtelberg is the highest mountain in Saxony, the second highest in the Ore Mountains and used to be the highest mountain in East Germany. Its subpeak is 1,206 m (3,957 ft) high.
This sighting on my first day in the park really made my day as there are only about 350 of this dogs in the park. I could only see five dogs in this dry river bed but with the temperature at 44C they did not move.
Kruger National Park.
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It's not often you see two short haired blondes in the same photo! I found myself in front of the camera with the fabulous Mandy EyeCandy at November's Big Night Out in Milton Keynes.
The Rowan seem to have plenty of bounty for the birds this year adding some extra autumnal colour but also a sign that it could be a harsh winter ahead.
I almost never get to see a sunset here at home because the color usually doesn't get high enough in the sky to show up beyond the trees in the wetland. Such a sunset is a 2 or 3 times a year occurrence.
St. Joseph, catholic church in the city quarter of Dellbrück, Cologne, Germany.
Canon T50 - Kodak Gold 200
After our visit to the appliance store, we stopped at Walmart to pick up a few things before grabbing a bite to eat. And I figured I may as well do another rear view while I was at it. 😉
Thanks to Detroitika's help, I was able to make a fairly good looking ZU-23-2. I really like this build, especially because of the 'cross-functionality' that will be explained in the descriptions of my M113 APC and soon to come pics ;)
Oh yeah, expect a certain MBT and a certain cargo truck soon!
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