Break free

This is one my favorites from the Bhadra trip. I'd visualized the river tern to fly above the foliage on the ground. This one seems the river tern is breaking free and flying away to its home. One of the interesting thing about such abstract compositions is that there could be multiple interpretation of the same image. I would love to know your interpretation. Do leave your comments!

Paddy Field Pipit

A first timer for me. While on the safari, it sat leisurely for over 2-3 minutes on this stick. Though it's yet another bird on a stick image, this particular species is still a first timer for me. It is a Leucistic Paddy Field Pipit. Leucistic means lacking complete pigmentation.

River tern - Flight abstract

Continuing from my river tern series; I had shot multiple frames of river terns landing, fishing. However this time around, I've shot them with a slower shutter speed just to indicate action.

River tern scape

The island close to JLR Bhadra attracts over thousands of river terns every year. This one is an attempt show show the river tern in own world.

Being different!

Last week I joined a new forum on the net called Creative Nature Photography. It's started by few like minded photographers whose aim is to create a forum that encourages creative nature photography. I know some of them & they themselves have created some wonderful images.
Based on some of the forum guidelines, I started figuring out how to make the images that standout and are different from the normal, usual stuff. It is tough initially to come out of the crowd and stick your neck out. However I've started my journey on these lines and it's really exciting. I got an opportunity last weekend when I was at Bhadra.

Streak Throated Woodpecker

Here is one more from the streak throated woodpecker series.

Jungle Fowl

Jungle Fowl are one of the difficult subjects to photograph! Unlike cats, they're not elusive. However whenever you see them and stop your vehicle they disappear into bushes in a flash. The only way to get a right frame with them is to be with them and shoot from a blind/hide. Here is one of my shots from Bandipur.

Wild dogs in a playful mood

The last Friday morning at Bandipur had everything. We saw 2 packs of wild dogs (5 and 10). The first 5ér pack were in great mood and we got them in beautiful light. Two of the pups (Though there are grown up now) started engaging themselves in fun and showed us a glimpse of their playful behavior. During the same time a Changeable Hawk Eagle presented itself on a nice perch (though against the light). We were in a tricky situation as to shoot which action! After shooting couple of frames of CHE, I shot the dog's behavior!

Beautiful Bandipur

I'm back to Bangalore and started clicking again!! It has been quite sometime since I left this space due to winter in NH. I visited Kabini and Bandipur for 4 days and it was eventful with my first clean shot of the leopard!

Due to unseasonal rains both Kabini and Bandipur forests are lush green which is unusual for this time of the year. Though in Kabini we sighted wild dogs, we missed out on the cats by a whisker! While we're in Jeep safari, another team on boat sighted a tiger quenching his thirst at a close distance! On the last day of the safari, we heard quite a few alarm calls and waited in anticipation of the elusive cat, we weren't lucky enough!
While we're winding up Kabini after 2 days, Manoj got a call from his friend that JLR folks have sighted 5 tigers in Bandipur the previous evening. That call was a clincher. We made a quick decision to visit Bandipur for a day! And boy, that was a great decision made in hindsight. In Bandipur we saw leopard in the late evening at 6pm for over 30 minutes. Though I'd seen the glimpses of leopard, I'd not shot any frames so far yet. This visit game ample opportunities to shoot though, at low light.

testing lightbox

I'm testing lightbox to work in my blogger. I had to use the scripts from different sites to make it work. Thanks to the script owners for making it open source.