The Bharatpur photographs are finally up. This is one of my best catch of the lot.
 Snake Bird – Threat display Bharatpur, Rajasthan, 4 Mar 2006 |
This Darter (Snake bird) let me go real close for me to get a good portrait shot. At one point, I was too close and I had stepped into the birds comfort zone. The bird turned towards me and performed this display to scare me away. Of course I did get scared, as this was a big bird and it could jump on me and injure me quite badly. Check out rest of the pictures too.
I’m blown! Out of words!
Unbelievably awesome. I almost wanted to run away from the screen when I saw that shot.
beautiful pic
Reminded me of the “My last photograph” email forward i received a few days back. Amazing shot.
son-of-a… too cool. how huge are they? and do they really attack if threatened? I think it would if it were defending its eggs/nest, but otherwise wouldnt it just fly away?
This bird has a very sloppy flight. So most of the time, they like to just sit on a tree stump near the water and fish for food.
heh thanks dude.. you must go to bharatpur. Even with a wide-angle lens, you will get excellent shots.
Nice, Didnt you hire some dude to tag those pictures better?
tag the pics ? You mean put them in a tree structure ?
Phew!! Really awesome pics.
Awesome snaps kallu:)
hmmm
so this gonna be another award winning pic kal?;-)
i hope so
no no better captions
you know that guy with a guitar who was supposed to write better captions.
/me [g,d,&r]
Aha yes.. no sign of him lately
.. are the sisters back in town ?
I guess ur “current mood” in this post reflects it all
amazing snaps !!
Too MUCH…
Been waiting patiently for the Bharatpur snaps; saw you online this morning when I logged on, and the pics hadn’t yet come on….so I had to go out and do odd jobs…and when I come back…the pics are there, as well as 15 comments already!! Shows that when it comes to checking your pics, I am a long way back in the queue!
I have so much of work to do and here I am, unable to tear myself away from these beautiful birds….I read someone’s comment that they wanted to run away when they saw the Darter snap….*I* am glad I don’t take photographs!
The new KFC in Bangalore stands for Kalyan Fan Club!!
….I’m trying to find better words than the hackneyed “Great” and “Superb”…but might wind up using them after all!
think so…
I think its more of post-processing some 10gigs *accomplishment*
Yep.. two days of hard work. I still have to do the thattekad ones.. thankfully they are not too many.
Re: Too MUCH…
hehe thanks for the kind words.. they sure are flattering.
I had lot of fun just processing these pics. Its tough to choose the best 5% from 500 – 600 pictures. I might spend some time later today to process the thattekad snaps too.
Awesome Shots Kalyan…. Is it the latest 70-200mm f/2.8 VR lens ??? Awesome Optics…
Excellent pictures.
Neat pics, man
amazing stuff kalyan..
great pics…. the second pic of the owl is great too… what camouflage.. what the hell… they are all great
cheers
just a question.. do you use pshop on any of them? ever? or generally untouched?
I use nikon capture to open the raw files to do bit of adjustments and also resizing for the web. It’s almost impossible to live without little bit of post-processing
It’s few years old. I have been using it for more then a year now and most of my pics have been taken with this lens. I, for one, swear by this lens. Very very sharp and works great in low light conditions
thanks!
Great shots man …
I’ll need permission to make few of them wallpapers & get larger versions ..
The best part of all these trips apart from the awesome pics is we learn so much about nature and its beings !
Great Pictures
Hey Great pictures, I am visiting your site for past one year. Now days I changes my desktop background when you uploads any new slot of pictures. This time I have chosen “Ducks flying” picture. This picture gives feeling that we are flying with them.
Great!!! Great !!!
Chaitanya Jakhadi.
(Mumbai)
Fantastic pics
All the pics are fantastic.
I guess one among your many missions is accomplished
pics and the Jackal Crossing
hello.
i especially liked the ‘jackal crossing’. looks funny and cute in a way. jackal just crossed the street without any care for the world. he just crossed. period.
. such a pity sometimes that wildlife isnt that wild anymore yeah? and also, i like ‘hide and seek’, a lot. good that you got to play for 3 days with the bird.
got introduced to your blog by some online acquaintance. also saw and read when you were featured by beyond shots. so you might want to add me in your watchlist, as i might be stalking you once in a while. :p
- r/stan, philippines.
p.s. really neat shots you have here. i cant quite believe its done by a neophyte, as you claim you are.
This one is amazing. But I love the Pied king fisher diving shot more
Beautiful how everything about the Pied kingfisher seems to be selected for that dive. A huge head (and probably strong skull too?), Longish beak. Its one thing to read about how Natural selection ‘builds’ such survival machines, its another thing to see them
Great work, its good to look at the perfect pictures you take and to read a lot about the birds/animals from your trips. I’d recommend your blog to my cousins aged between 08 and 15 to follow-up your work, its like watching National Geographic or Animal Planet. I am amazed at how you find time for all this adventure.
There is something very primordial about this photo. Reminds me of Jurassic Park and also that birds had dinosaurs somewhere in their lineage. Loved it!
wow. what a mouth.
Cool
Huh .. Phew .. Sheesh .. Wow .. Great ..
The snake bird .. yeah I think I saw this bird at Ranganthitoo. Is this the bird when it lands on water gets almost completely submerged except for its neck and head ? Its not a really large bird is it ?
Let me know if you need any higher-res ones
That, my friend is what I really hope to achive with these photographs. Looks like I might actually be getting there.
Re: Great Pictures
Yep. I wish I had a better picture of that, but could not manage it. Let me know if you need high-res pics
Re: Cool
Yep, it’s quite huge. Don’t get it confused with the cormorants, which are quite small compared to the darter.
Heh yeah.. this is one of those birds, which is really sloppy at flight.. and evolving into a total non-flying bird. I will soon post a pic of another bird named frogmouth.. now that really look straight out of Jurassic park
I just found time and now back to the grind. Might make it somewhere by the end of the month. It helps to have free weekends
But there are everywhere for you to see. I should do a photo essay on it, one of these days.. and I specifically want to give importance to plants
Re: pics and the Jackal Crossing
Hello there, Glad to see someone from philippines reading this blog.
Bharatpur is different. The whole park is only 25 sq km. So there is not much place for humans and animals to stay isolated. There was a tiger in this park till last year too it seems. It died of natural causes and they do not exist here anymore.
and yes, I’m still very much a novice. Been doing serious wildlife photography for just slightly more then a year now
Hey….
Amazing….. as usual!
Definitely… Please do write up. It might make folks like me get interested in plants
But right now, am so into genetics that I would love to go study more formally. Darwin is my God 