This is a guest post by Vineet Panchbhaiyye who joined us (among other tours) on our Goa photography tour in August 2013. While we were on a nature trail one evening in Goa, Nirmal Kulkarni (eminent herpetologist and our nature expert on the tour) got a call from his research assistant asking us to hurry to a […]
“Charger and his son B2 were notorious for charging at vehicles. Bamera was like that in his prime. Now he is old.” “Kankati killed Laxmi for territory and fed on a part of her body to show her dominance.” (Gruesome, but that’s how nature works!) *** Charger, B2, Bamera, Kankati and Laxmi are (if you haven’t guessed by now) the names […]
This is a Guest Post by Jagadeesh Rampam who travelled with Darter on our Mountains and Monasteries tour of Ladakh in July 2014. I was always fascinated about going to places after the shutterbug bit me in June 2013. That was when I’d started my photography journey at Agumbe rainforest with Darter Photography (led by Shreeram M […]
Where in India would you find these? Thinking of the deserts of Rajasthan? Well, there’s another desert of a very different kind in India. Here’s another clue. It’s, of course, the high altitude desert of Ladakh. A different sight, of course, from the turquoise blue lakes and mountain landscapes. Welcome to Nubra Valley! It […]
When I show this photograph to my friends, they often pose this question to me – “How far were you from the snake?” There is a deep sense of concern in their question (in most cases). The snake in the photograph is a Saw-scaled Viper (Echis carinatus) – one of India’s Big 4 venomous snakes. The answer in […]
Photograph Description – I have found the sheer beauty and diversity that rainforests offer very fascinating. While we all have our wishlist of the ‘sought after species’ like snakes, other reptiles and amphibians, there is much more to the rainforest than just that. I wanted to make an image that can tell the story of […]