Patience is what gets you from a good portrait photograph….. …to a great behaviour photograph! The latter photograph was the result of spending more than 10 minutes observing the bird at close proximity. Initially, the bird posed for many portraits, while not moving too much and keeping a constant eye on the photographers. As time […]
Here is a photograph taken at the recently concluded Darter Photography Tour of Hampi. Making pictures in Hampi has always been a big challenge for me. I have visited the place more than half-a-dozen times, with four tours made when leading Darter Photography Tours. When you are revisiting the same spot again and again, it […]
Wildlife photography is so addictive, probably because of the numerous surprises it throws at us. On a peaceful evening on the Bhadra Reservoir (on Darter’s River Tern Tour), we were watching a few Brahminy Kites go about their evening routine. Out of nowhere, this dragonfly decided to appear in front of one of the […]
We have had several requests all through last year to conduct photography-centric day-trips out of Bangalore. Here is the first of a series of them to come. You will recognize a fragrance of heritage in every corner of Melukote. The old temples, the large Kalyani that has hosted several movie shoots, the smaller Raya Gopura […]
Here is a quick look at what is cooking in 2012. This year, Darter will be going on photography tours to Ladakh, Spiti, Kenya, Cambodia, Runn of Kutch, Rajasthan, North-East, Sri Lanka, Sundarbans, Tadoba, Andaman, Varanasi and many more places. There will also be shorter photography tours to Hampi, Badami, Agumbe, Bhadra Wildlife sanctuary, Munnar, […]
A year ago, a wildlife photographer and a travel photographer got together over a cup of ice-cream (yes, it wasn’t coffee). The purpose of the meeting was the ice-cream and it was just a coincidence that both the people at the meeting happened to be photographers. However, predictably or unpredictably, the conversation was all things […]