Cliffs, ridges, waterfalls. That’s Khandala for you. Speeding along the expressway, I’ve often looked longingly at the meadows around the Duke’s Nose (that cliff was said to resemble Wellington’s profile, and the name remains even when the association is forgotten). The Family is rather blasé about it. She’s spent weekend retreats in one of those villas every year. This year I followed her into some of those places and saw a view which was new to me. I realized that I have to go wider than wide to capture the sense of what I saw. I had to take a panorama.

The meaning of a wide angle is clear to anyone except a photographer. Fussy lenspeople will talk of focal lengths and film sizes, and try to translate it to digital in terms of ratios. By this definition, most smart phones have wide angle lenses. But that does not take into account the software which chops or adds to images. I wondered a little about this as I took a photo of clouds drifting across the slope and the cliff. But only a little, since I was busy trying to figure out whether I should cross the haha (you see it as the brown line beyond the rock in the photo above) and get closer to the lip of the cliff. I walked up a bit further, and found the slope too steep and slippery and decided not to.

I moved a little and took another photo. This time catching the turn in the expressway just before it gets to Lonavala. If you ever wondered how high the monsoon clouds are, go to Khandala. They drift along the roads here, and drop off into valleys. Since this place is half a kilometer above sea level, that tells you how low monsoon clouds get. The fluffy white cirrus clouds that you can see in other seasons are about six kilometers up in the sky. I love the feel of the monsoon in the Sahyadris, the drifting fog that hides and reveals, the strange light, the startling green of these meadows.
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Gorgeous photos and the mist is so thick. You would need to be careful driving there
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Yes, visibility can be pretty bad.
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I love your fog IJ although I suspect I might tire of it after weeks on end! Beautiful vistas
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Thanks. I don’t see much of the fog. In the city it comes down as rain 🙂
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That panorama is really effective in capturing the contrast between green and mist 🙂
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Thanks. This time I remembered to take a panorama
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Lovely panorama, IJ. The greens are so green! The mist is so atmospheric. Great captures.
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I. J. Thanks for the tour and beautiful images. I love fog!
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Thanks. Glad you like it.
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Play Misty For me. (American movie.) Beautiful greens.
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Thanks. I wish I’d remembered that old Clint Eastwood reference when I was trying to choose the title.
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Beautiful foggy photos, IJ! The opening image is my favorite.
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Thank you. Yes, the place required the panorama
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Lovely capture, the fog is an essential part!
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What a great shot!
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Gorgeous opener. Greeeeen.
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