Benjamin Lee has a very interesting Job. He works for the Singapore National Parks Board. He is responsible for maintaining the tree cover in town and also the National parks and watersheds. I was introduced to Ben as he was the best person to show me Colugo in the wild in Singapore.
He called me [...]

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 [...]

To get a nice portrait like this

one has to really work hard like this

(Picture shot by Harsha)
This female lizard had just laid it’s eggs and was very protective
about them. This is it’s threat display to scare other animals away. Normally
it’s very tough to photograph these lizards, but this female in Bandipur
was very brave and refused [...]

The pictures of the Vine Snake were my fav from my Kudremukh Trip last week. Over all we saw about 13 new species of snakes (most of them dead, run over on the road). We saw this little fella crossing the road and managed to save it life from a passing truck.

The Green Vine Snake [...]

Last week, sriramb was out of town and a lot of work was stalled for various reasons. So I decided to make a quick dash into the forest and boy, oh boy what a trip that was.
At Bandipur, I got to see tons of elephants. In 2 days, I think I saw more then 50 [...]

I’ve been putting my studio equipment to good use lately

Just had the best Tiger sighting of my life. I was driving to the Tribal NGO place in the jeep when this large male tiger crossed the road right in front of me. I stopped the jeep and switched off the engine. This tiger walked into some nice green grass, glared at me for [...]

This owl is the Oriental Bay Owl. People thought this bird was extinct in India till 1992 and till date only 2 – 3 birds have been spotted in India. When we actually saw the bird and started shooting, the bird was in a weird angle and we were not getting any good shots. Then [...]

Things have been crazy since I’ve come back from the trip. No net access, broken car, lot of running around the town this week. Hopefully I will sit around and upload all my pics this weekend.
The trip itself was excellent. I got to photograph Oriental Bay Owl, which apparently has not been photographed by [...]

The folks here who work in the camp are truly amazing set of people. They have all come from the near by tribal villages and can speak only kannada. Today while I was working on my machine, they came over and asked me if I could show them a plane. Apparently they have never seen [...]