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Image Break-down: Scops Owl Through A Keyhole

Aditya Sridhar — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 11:32:21 +0000

The Indian Scops Owl is one of my favourite bird species of all time. Mysterious, elusive, and perfectly camouflaged, these pocket predators are always high up on my list of ...

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Image Break-down: Birds As Far As The Eye Can See…

Aditya Sridhar — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 13:27:18 +0000

I genuinely believe observing and photographing this particular colony of Painted Storks forms a core part of the definitive Bharatpur experience. It continues to baffle me how a location can feel ...

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Image Break-down: Critically-endangered Indian Vultures on the cliffs of Bayana

Aditya Sridhar — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 10:30:35 +0000

I’ve always been fascinated by vultures, and when I heard that there was a well-known Indian Vulture nesting site on the outskirts of the city of Bharatpur, I jumped at ...

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Image Break-down: Painted Storks Silhouette

Aditya Sridhar — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 12:02:52 +0000

I shot this image of a colony of Painted Storks on the first morning of my trip to Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur in early November, 2024. Being my fourth trip ...

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2022 – A Year in Review

Aditya Sridhar — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 11:45:53 +0000

Whew! The past year was a whirlwind. Time flies when you’re having fun, I suppose. As 2022 draws to a close, though, I figured this was a great opportunity to ...

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Decoding Composition – Going beyond the Rule of Thirds

Aditya Sridhar — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 13:30:06 +0000

Have you ever looked at an image and thought, “something isn’t quite right here”? Maybe there’s a bit too much empty space to the right, or perhaps the subject feels ...

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Salalah 2018 – The Wonders of the West

Aditya Sridhar — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 22:48:21 +0000

Hard-drives are a vital part of every photographer’s kit, aren’t they? Why wouldn’t they be? They don’t just store images, they safe-keep memories that we can relive, places we can ...

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The Importance of Pre-visualization

Aditya Sridhar — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 08:51:00 +0000

First of all, what is pre-visualization? To help you understand the concept of pre-visualization, let me construct a simple scenario. You’re in the living room of your lodge in Peru ...

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