All these days, I was using my LJ account to acknowledge those wonderful posts shared by you wonderful people.
Ive been a Blogger user for a long time now. But thought of kicking off my First post on LJ with the first visit i made ths year, to the popularly known birding heaven Mancinabele reservoir.
As most of you know, this is one of those beautiful places which is untouched by times. Well, i just hope the place stays like this for the years to come. 
 
Im not sure if this picture below might seem very interesting to many but its really special for me :-) . The reasons being,
1. Its first of the kind ive experimented. Mounted on a tripod, Reducing the shutter speed to do the magic. It worked out well, for me.
2. This isnt the natural light. . The bird had settled down for the day. Time was almost 7pm and i had to use the external flash pack to get this photograph. Actually, with the flash on, its difficult to get the slow shutter speed. So, it was fun working on it.
3. Fortunately it was my Birthday ;-)



Few of the other photographs taken,