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…
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….
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Here is a photograph made by Niranjan Chadrasekhar during the Darter Photography Tour to Runn of Kutch – an interesting capture and a good documentation of a brief interaction between the wild ass and a motorist. The people of Kutch typically use the flat…
Here is an image of lit up Amber Fort in Jaipur, against the colourful evening sky. The lights come up everyday after sunset hours, when it is the ideal time to capture the fort’s splendors. Lack of sufficient light is one of the major…
The Rough Guide to South India calls the sunrise at Hampi as the “arguably one of the most beautiful sunrises in the world”. It is impossible to disagree. The orange ball raising through the boulder-laden hills of Hampi, with Tungabhadra River weaving through its…
The beautiful landscape of Ladakh, photographed during Darter Photography Tour of Ladakh in 2011. The best thing about Ladakh is that you get great images no matter where you point your camera and click. While this is a great thing, it poses a challenge…
