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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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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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‘Fog Upon The Fen’ – Little Cormorants

Aditya Sridhar — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 17:35:20 +0000

“Little Cormorants – Flock on a snag”, is what I’d pencilled down in my diary while doing my due diligence on Bharatpur. This is the shot I’d envisioned of this ...

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‘Between Dusk and Dawn’ – Indian Scops Owl

Aditya Sridhar — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 09:20:45 +0000

I was the first person to enter the sanctuary on this cold, foggy morning. It was my last day in Bharatpur and there was one species I desperately wanted to ...

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‘Friend or Foe’ – White-breasted Waterhen

Aditya Sridhar — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 19:07:00 +0000

This is yet another shot I’d envisioned long before my trip to Bharatpur came to fruition. Besides the park’s spectacular Painted Storks and majestic raptors, there were quite a few ...

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‘The Trees Have Eyes’ – Indian Scops Owl

Aditya Sridhar — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 03:44:06 +0000

Scops Owls were high on my list of targets during my trip to Bharatpur, so I was thrilled when my Rickshaw driver led me to a known roost site for ...

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‘Eclectic’ – Grey Wagtail

Aditya Sridhar — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 09:51:34 +0000

I shot this image of a Grey Wagtail on a beautiful misty morning in the woodlands of Keoladeo Ghana National Park, Bharatpur. Having looked at thousands of images taken at ...

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Review: Nikon 500mm f/5.6 PF – Autofocus and Teleconverter Performance

Aditya Sridhar — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 12:22:02 +0000

This post was initially supposed to be a discussion about the Nikon 500mm f/5.6 PF’s (500PF) autofocus capabilities, but a lot of elements regarding the lens’s performance with a teleconverter ...

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