Awarded: SPECIAL MENTION Competition: SANCTUARY ASIA WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS Year: 2009 Where: INDIA Description: MORE THAN ITS FAIR SHARE During one of our drives we found this huge rodent lying next to the road. I asked my driver to halt near the animal to check what it was. He parked close to the rodent and we figured it was…
Awarded: SPECIAL MENTION Competition: Better Photography Wildlife Photography Awards Year: 2008 Where: INDIA Description: A WARM WELCOME Made this image at a place where thousands of demoiselle cranes congregate every year. Each morning, villagers lay out grains to feed the flock. Their numbers grow from 30-40 in the early winter to 10, 000 during peak winter. We saw about…
Awarded: SPECIAL MENTION Competition: SANCTUARY ASIA WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS Year: 2007 Where: INDIA Description: IF FISH COULD FLY While driving across Rajasthan, we encountered a road that had cut through a stream and divided it into two water bodies. The larger water body was at a slightly higher elevation as compared to the smaller one. Several fish that had…
Awarded: SECOND PRIZE Competition: SANCTUARY ASIA WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS Year: 2007 Where: INDIA Description: AT LOGGERHEADS Two males took off from a fruiting tree flying side-by-side. Suddenly they turned, faced each other, and bumped their beaks mid-air. They turned back and continued their flight. This type of behaviour in hornbills is known as casque butting. It had not been…
Awarded: WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR Competition: SANCTUARY ASIA WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS Year: 2007 Where: INDIA Description: PHANTOM OF THE FOREST Trogons are colourful, vocal and extremely shy. We have three species of trogons in the India – the relatively common Malabar trogon found in the western and the eastern Ghats, the Red-headed trogon found in…
