I’ve been at Wildscreen Festival this whole week and last evening my long time dream came true. I finally met David Attenborough in person and even managed to show some of my photographs to him. Pretty much everyone related to wildlife in some way or the other is here and today is the last day of the festival. More soon …

My first 3 days in UK have been good so far. Though people bitch a lot about London, it really is a nice city (atleast what little I’ve seen of it). Will be back there end of the month to spend few days, so hopefully will get to explore it a bit Been in Bristol the last two days. This is a very small lazy city and it has been raining since the time I have come here. So have not had any chance to explore the city and its night life. After many years, I’m sitting at a desk,…

Getting ready to fly to UK in few hours time. I just realised it has been more than 4 years since I’ve gone out of India (counting out my walk in Namdapha where I walked into Burma).I will be shuttling between London and Bristol. So if any of you are in and around that area, do give me a shout. I’m attending WildScreen and Wild Photos and also spending some time working with Icon Films and hopefully some time at BBC Natural history Unit. The main purpose of the trip is the India Biodiversity Photo Exhibit that I’m doing in…

I had made a quick trip to BR hills earlier this week and was fortunate to see a tiger in the night. Since I have been traveling mostly in the rain forests the last year or so, it has been almost 2 years since I’ve seen a tiger in the wild. The photograph and the sighting would not have been possible without Mandanna who was driving the vehicle and Giri Cavale who was spotlighting because of which both of them could not photograph. Hence the multiple copyrights on the image. Even though I have seen and photographed some very rare…

Since many people asked, here is the color version of the fetus image. Which one is better ? which one has a better impact ? This incident happened few months ago in the Anamalias. We heard news that a Lion-tailed macaque was hit on the road and we rushed to the spot. The image you see below was that. We took it to the local Valparai vet and when he was performing the post-mortem he found the fetus inside. Of course both the mother and fetus were dead. The doc put the fetus in a small plastic jar and thats…

The fetus of a Lion-tailed macaque. The mother died in a road accident.

The Chennai exhibit went really well. We had very good turnout from the Judiciary system and overall more than 700 people turned up during the course of the day. Most people came in during the first half of the day to attend the talks. Personally it was very nice to see my photographs, printed and framed and put in a spotlight. Being digital photographers, we tend to forget the special feeling of seeing the photographs in print. Here are some of the photographs Chief Justice of Tamil Nadu inaugurating the exhibit

Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF) is organising a very special event on conservation in Chennai. We are gathering the lawyers and judges of the state make them sit and understand the wildlife and the conservation issues. Since most of these issues are handled at court level, this is a very rare chance to sensitise the policy makers. Not that they do not know the issues, but are surely not aware of the field realities of what works and what does not. The leopard issue will surely be on top of the priority. The photo exhibit is a showcase of Tamil Nadu’s…

Chamundi hill which is bang in the middle of the lovely Mysore city is a safe sanctuary for lot of wildlife. A lot of my friends from India Nature Watch mysore almost go there every weekend to photograph the wildlife and you can see the whole collection here and here. Its known not only for its great bird diversity but also a healthy population of leopards. If you see the link above, a lot of people have been photographing this lovely leopard even till few weeks ago… totally peaceful in its habitat. Yesterday one of these leopards came onto a…

After almost a year of inactivity, I’m back yo !