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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 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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‘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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‘Sentinel’ – Nilgai

Aditya Sridhar — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 14:05:57 +0000

While Bharatpur is well-known for its accessibility to wildlife, especially along the park’s main roadway, I find that very little is said about some of its smaller, untraveled trails. They ...

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