The photo exhibition at BR hills did happen and I did get a chance to interact with the President of India, though it did not happen the way I wanted it to. The security at the place was a mess and all the press folks had formed a circle around him, which make things really ugly. But anyway, he really loved the photographs and his personal favorite was this photograph of the very charming soliga girl (which I had photographed last week) and the mother tiger. He was really inspirational to listen to and believe it or not, he almost…

Looks like the WWF exhibition has finally come to Bangalore and it is being held this weekend at Taj Residency. I have no idea how many of my photographs are being displayed, but there should be quite a few. If you are in that area, do swing by between 11am and 8pm on the 14th and 15th of Oct. However, I will not be around at the exhibition. The President of India is coming over to BR hills this sunday to attend the 25th year celebrations of the local tribal NGO : VGKK. I’m displaying/exhibiting my BR hills photograph for…

Note to self : Do not drink Red Bull in any form an hour before you go to bed. It’s close to 5am and still not a wink of sleep 🙁

The Ungulate conference at Munnar went really well. Got to meet some of worlds best wildlife biologists, scientists, photographers, filmmakers etc. Ofcourse, I also planned the trip to go see the Kurinji Flowers which are in bloom and the Nilgiri Thar and to do some ground work on another project. But the weather was not on my side. It was wet wet wet and my new gear got fully drenched in the rain.. including my bag.. the big lens.. everything. To make matters worse, the place was infested with leeches. Till date, leeches got me many times on my foot…

Starting today, I’m off to Munnar to attend the 4th World Congress on Mountain Ungulates. This is the first time I’m attending a wildlife conference in my life and I’m eagerly looking forward to meeting a lot of people and attending lot of the session. I’m going along with Sandesh Kadur to do a small expedition there. Will write about it once I get back. See you next week.

I’m at the GPLv3 Conference at IIMB and it sucks. People missed the whole point of the conference. The conference is about what-to-have and what-not-to-have in the next version of GPL. However, the last 2 days, people have been just asking “How do I run xxx in linux” to “What do you think about M$”. Currently I’m in the DRM panel and someone asks RMS “Why free software” and he is going on and on about how he was in MIT and how he lost freedom.. the usual stuff. Somehow he/she does not get boo’ed while someone got boo’ed coz…

Finally after months of waiting my new gear had arrived. After the Adorama fiasco, the lens went out of stock everywhere. Late July, Gowtham (an online friend whom I’ve had exchanged few mails before regarding photography) shot me a mail saying he was coming down to Bangalore and he could get the lens for me. Exactly on the same day, fresh stock of this lens showed up in B & H. Gowtham ordered it right away and got it delivered to his place without any issues what so ever. Then he flew into India exactly on the day the London…

This is the view from top of Honnamati hill at BR hills. My favorite place on earth. The valley that you see is about 30% of this amazing wilderness paradise called BR hills. This wildlife sanctuary is in a valley which is protected on all the sides by hills, which keeps it relatively less disturbed. I was at the right place at the right time to have captured this ray of light falling on the forest cover through the monsoon clouds. My last two trips have been very fruitful in terms of photography. I’ve managed to upload the first set…

Some updates on my photography front : I got a mail from BBC Wildlife last night. I did not make it to the wildlife photographer of the year award. However, my Vine snake photograph made it to the final stage of the ‘Animal Portraits’ category it seems. I’m just thrilled to even have reached to that point considering they had more than 18,000 entries from 55 countries. About 20 of my photographs have been selected for a exhibition being hosted by WWF. If you are in Delhi, do visit the Indian Habitat Center from 25th to 31st. The exhibition will…