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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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Nikon Z8 – A Long(ish)-term Review from a Wildlife Photographer’s Perspective

Aditya Sridhar — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:39:41 +0000

Hey all! If you’re a regular follower of this blog, you might’ve known that for the past 5 years or so, my primary camera body has been the wonderful Nikon ...

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The Crepuscule – An Ever-Evolving Tale of the Egyptian Nightjars

Aditya Sridhar — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 09:06:33 +0000

Picture a desolate shrubland, ashen and dry as a bone – skeletal, in every sense of the word. A wilderness studded with pallid Tamarisk trees and jagged saline deposits as ...

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Magical Bharatpur – A Wider Perspective

Aditya Sridhar — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:32:53 +0000

Keoladeo (pronounced ‘kev-la-dev’) National Park – the beating heart of Bharatpur – is known all over the world for, amongst many other things, its picturesque landscapes. However, sifting through the ...

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Nikon 500mm f/4e FL – A Long-term Review and Comparison with the 500mm PF

Aditya Sridhar — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 17:23:15 +0000

A while ago, I dropped my trusty old 500mm PF – a gem of a lens – onto hard concrete, decentring the optics and rendering it completely unusable. As a ...

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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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Greater Flamingos – Post-Processing Walkthrough

Aditya Sridhar — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 12:10:25 +0000

I haven’t done one of these post-processing blog posts in a long while, but I figured this photo deserved it. I shot this image of a flock of Greater Flamingos ...

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