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Velikonda Range


Velikonda Range
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Copyright: Murray Lines (mlines) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 505 W: 17 N: 555] (2548)
Genre: Landscapes
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-11
Categories: Mountain
Camera: Canon EOS400D, Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-11-28 21:57
Viewed: 575
Points: 8
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Part of a range of hills in southeastern Andhra Pradesh state, southern India. They trend north to south and form the eastern flank of the Eastern Ghats, which at that point are strongly folded and faulted. The Velikondas are assumed to have been elevated during the Cambrian Period (540 to 505 million years ago). They are relics of ancient mountains. The area is rather poor farming and much of the land is covered in a thorny shrub brought from Africa 80 years ago for use as hedges, however it is now a serious noxious weed, difficult to control and not even useful as firewood as it emits pungent smoke. I estimate 40% of the land is waste due to this plant.
The area is famous for lemons and 200 truckloads a day are sent from here during the picking season.
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  • JPlumb Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 643 W: 160 N: 894] (2837)
  • [2007-11-28 23:30]

Hey Murray, judging from your shot, these do look like old hills, there seems to have been a lot of erosion over time, they are starting to crumble. Your story on the shrub is an interesting sideline. We never seem to learn do we, and continue to move things to where they don't belong, and create more problems than we had in the first place.

Thanks, John

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  • jhm Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 660 W: 0 N: 178] (622)
  • [2007-11-28 23:42]

Hello Murray,

Always the same system, peoples make almost everything destroy throug them intervention, thorny shrub are no indigenous plant!
Splendid picture with a very nice composition, exactly ruin with the rocks stones.
Very well done.

Best regards,
John.

Hello Murray,
Interesting details in this landscape, and the fine note is a must to understand what the image shows!
Well framed scenery, attractive natuiral colours...
Educational value!
Greetings,
Pablo -

Hi Murray,

A nice image of the Velikonda Range, the photo has a good composition, DOF and beautiful colors. Thanks for sharing.

Pierre

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