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 […]
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 […]
Art Everywhere Photographed by Radha Rangarajan Photograph Description: Rainforests, for me, are synonymous with fungi. I love photographing fungi and I think they represent rainforests and the monsoon best. Wading knee deep in a stream one night in Valparai, I came across this cluster of Mycena fungi on a drifting piece of wood. While they looked […]
Snake feeding on Earthworm Photographed by Vinodh Venugopal Photograph Description: It was a pleasant day with intermittent rain. During our field visit in the afternoon, we found this beautiful snake – a Large-scaled Shieldtail (Uropeltis macrolepis) – on a pathway. The snake caught an earthworm and started feeding on it. The earthworm struggled hard, but the snake […]
The biodiversity in the rainforest is mind-boggling. Every direction one looks in, there’s an abundance of life-forms – each of them adding to the circle of life. Since many animals, plants and fungi are really tiny, the first reaction as a wildlife photographer is to get a good look using a macro lens and taking […]