Jazz with Eric Vloeimans yet again & a good bye......

Was lucky to see Eric Vloeimans & Gate crash in action again. He was off to Japan after the concert.

I just loved their song titled Foot steps.

Here is a very poor recording from my mum's mobile phone (No Eric, her mobile was not the one which kept ringing !!)

Whisper of the Wings series.....1. Purple Sunbird

In my Face Book account i had posted photographs of the birds which visit the balcony of my house.

It had in fact kicked up quite a bit of interest among my friends. So from today i start this new series, which i have titled Whisper of the Wings, which will be exclusive of the birds photographed from my balcony.

A special thanks is required to my drawing teacher Joy, who had gifted me a tripod, so my camera is always mounted & ready to capture the whisper of the wings.

We start off with the Purple Sunbird (male), a really busy bird, never sits still. I hope to capture the changing colours of this bird as the season progresses

At the Jazz Utsav with Eric Vloeimans et al

For the first time i went for a live jazz program & i really enjoyed it.

Some of the musicians who performed are :

Eric Vloeimans who is regarded as one of the Europe's best trumpet players & the performance of his group Gate crash was simply awesome, Ulli Gudmundsson was also great on Bass

Wayne Krantz is one of the best guitarists

Anthony Jackson is one of the best in bass

Cliff Almond sets the mood alive with some of the best drumming

David Binney is supposed to be the one of the best saxophone players of present day

Brian Melvin ( Beatle Jazz), has a unique style in drumming

Andre Marcelli again is one of Italy's greatest drummers, he was amazing

Lorenzo Petrocca is known world over for his guitar playing

Amit Heri from India was also really good

I also enjoyed just watching some of them prepare for the show during the breaks, the way they set up their instruments & how they tune them etc

Until next year !!

sketches series.........7. Yellow Collared Lovebird

This is my illustration of a Yellow Collared Lovebird,

i've only used colour pencils

Oriental Honey Buzzard comes visiting yet again

Yippie !!

Few days back

once again she came outside our house !!

Warnings were sounded out to all residents

Keep off me or .......

And these two bulbuls were also watching the action with us from our balcony,

wondering whats all this fuss about ??

Why you not taking any snaps of me ??

Untill next time, bye, bye OHB

and the bulbuls ........ sorry !!

sketches series.......6.Purple Heron

The best way to liven up the backside of a book shelf is to do a drawing on it !!

Isn't it ??

That's what i did,

with an illustration of a Purple Heron !!

sketches series.......5. Racquet Tailed Drongo

This is a sketch which i made a few years back of the Racquet Tailed Drongo, after seeing this bird in Pangot, Uttaranchal.

The Oriental Honey Buzzard comes visiting again

For the last two years during these months, an Oriental Honey Buzzard comes outside our house. When this bird comes usually there are alarm calls all over from the the squirrel's & also all the resident dada's also get insecure & tend to hassle a new bird. All in all there is panic in the air when the OHB comes in.

Today morning i was in still in bed, suddenly i heard didi call out "Honey buzzard saamne baita hai," i jumped out of bed & there it was just outside our balcony. This one is a female, last year we had seen the male.

She started giving me the looks !!

When the crows were hassling her, she just opens her beak......

Then suddenly a Shikra swooped on her, look at her how she has puffed up herself & made her appear really big to ward off the Shikra. Unfortunately i could not get the Shikra in the same frame.

Then she went to another tree & again started eye balling me !!

After a good 25 mts she decided to go away

Tata, bye bye, au revoir, adios amigos.

Until next time

take care !!