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Ive been wanting to do this map for a while now. I am not aware of one place where on can get this information. So here goes. Here is the list of places you can do “easy bird

My first Heart Shaped Woodie was in Dandeli on my first ever trip, sometime in 2008. Since then I hadn’t got a chance to see this beauty up close, until now. High DoF (F13) a

Aeroshow here in Mumbai after some 15 years The jet aerobatics Suryakiran team (the aircraft is the BAE Hawk) , the helicopter aerobatics Sarang team ( aircraft is the HAL-Dhruv) ,

I recently tried the SB 800 speedlite flash to work wirelessly with my Nikon Z50 mirrorless. The setup is like this Pop up the flash on the Nikon Z50, Burst mode NOT on Extended Hi

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We broke a rather long hiatus of not going out chasing birds by taking a trip to Karnala to get some Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher shots. The location was a small stream and had a lot

Pulled out my long lens after a very long while and grabbed a few parkeets from my balcony FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Check page 98 for my snow leopard picture !   Sanctuary Asia August 2023 issue FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Early Dec 2022, I was on a trip to Delhi. Kishore had just ordered his Z9 and a 100-400Z lens. He was already using the old 80-400mm F lens so that was there to compare too. And I

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The airbus 320 Neo touchdown at Jabalpur was super smooth, barely felt it. Getting out of the aircraft got into a quaint small terminal to collect our bags. Jabalpur air was just a

The Mumbai birding group had a few pics of this wonderful bird and I asked if someone knew where to go and see this bird. The Great Hornbill has been on my list for a while. The Va

Every time some flowers are in the house, especially gerberas, I just cant seem to resist these still life shots ! All Nikon Z50. And 50mm 1.8G, Zeiss 21mm F2, Z 16-50mm and the Z

I have a old iconic Nikkor 500mm reflex mirror lens borrowed from a good friend sitting in my lens lens cupboard. Every time I picked lenses, I will fondly hold the lens move that

Some about dead gerberas and I tried to do some still life out no life 🙂 FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Had an opportunity to shoot some sailing in Mumbai. Great fun and the Nikon Z50 with the kit lens worked really well ! Met up with Glen Rebello who was shooting the event. He does

I did a Bhandup after a long time. I just didn’t want the usual shots. So I went in for slow and arty compositions this time. Just no shoot of the usual, was my restriction f

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I was stuffing myself with cream rolls for breakfast at Shirshupal just after an enjoyable birding session with a European Roller and thats when this blog title popped up in my min

I had some old pending amount with Anup since my last attempt at Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher attempt at Panvel with Doc Bedekar. That attempt was a washout due to super heavy rain la

Slow speed bird workout :-)

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This article first appeared on Nikon Rumours website   My casual shooting camera a Sony RX100 ver 1 had gone bust a few months  ago.  I was looking for a replacement

Location 1 – DPS Lake view point ( Best for mornings since sun would be from the east and you are facing west) Location 2 – Vanashree View Point ( Best for evenings whe

Akshi beach birding photography

How to get there ? Migrating Amurs reported being spotted around Lonavala and many pics showed up on the net.  A staging halt before the Amurs crossed the ocean into Africa. F

Nikon Z50 (Cropped Body) + 600mm + TC17 Manual, ISO 500, F7.1, 1/25th Manual, ISO 800, F8, 1/125th File Type – RAW Manual White balance 4500K Active D Lighting – None V

    Nik  Filters in photoshop First – Colour EFX Pro 2 Super Cross pop Cross balance – Tungsten 2 Vignette Lens – -50% Second – Analog EFX Pr

The Khanapur – Ramagar route is a mess due to road construction. And avoid going through Belgaum city. The best route to The Old Magazine House is via Hotel Gajaraj at Kittur

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Finally broke the lockdown birding hiatus. Went to Bhandup pumping station along with Sundar for a spot of morning birding. Great company and glad to get out into the open finally

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Tried the 600mm F4 FL lens after a long time, and for a change, used the Nikon Z50 on it. Difficult combo to balance on the gimbal. Camera being uber light ! I think I missed the f

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My old film faithful departs for a new owner. Rock on my friend 🙂 Quick grabs with the Nikon Z50 + kit lens , no processing at all. Straight NEF to JPG pics. And my last set of

Balcony shots ! And Spoonbills ! FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

A cooperative moth. Cant imagine this is what the face looks like !   Nikon Z50, 105mm macro + Extension tube + flash   FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

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Mishmi hills birding photography

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My old Quantum turbo 2×2 battery pack now has dead batteries. I looked up the net and found a few neat ways I could possibly re cell and use my Turbo 2×2. This video help

Sattal had always conjured up for me a picture of woodpeckers in places that could be easily be photographed especially a hide. Though my last “hide trip” to Thattekad

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All pics shot during the “virus” lockdown days in Mumbai 19 April 2020 Day 26 A magpie robin catching some dish TV ! FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

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All pics shot during the “virus” lockdown days in Mumbai 17 April 2020 Day 24 Black kites fighting FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

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All pics shot during the “virus” lockdown days in Mumbai 13 April 2020 Day 20 Monkeys on the rooftops ! FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

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All pics shot during the “virus”  lockdown days in Mumbai 10  Apr 2020 – Day 17 A surprise pond heron !   FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

All pics shot during the “virus”  lockdown days in Mumbai 09  Apr 2020 – Day 16 Life- Squeezing in between the buildings Creative blur FacebookTwitterLi

All pics shot during the “virus”  lockdown days in Mumbai 08  Apr 2020 – Day 15 Black eared kite soaring Alien Planet Super moon FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

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All pics shot during the “virus”  lockdown days in Mumbai 06  Apr 2020 – Day 13 Some kinda abstract creative one FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

All pics shot during the “virus”  lockdown days in Mumbai 05  Apr 2020 – Day 12 A golden oriole dropped in Some kinda abstract creative one FacebookTwit

All pics shot during the “virus”  lockdown days in Mumbai 04  Apr 2020 – Day 11 Formation flypast FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

All pics shot during the “virus”  lockdown days in Mumbai 03  Apr 2020 – Day 10 Social distance fight FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

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All pics shot during the “virus”  lockdown days in Mumbai 27  Mar 2020 – Day 3 Morning rush hour FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

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How to secure your blackrapid strap and the 500 PF lens foot. Safety backup . Camera safety tether.

After the sunrise we did the short trail at the entry of Sandakphu again. Saw mostly tits and the Black faced chu***ya. We ran into the same brit gang here again. The Brit said bri

Garibdas ( Gairibas ) : Gairibas, (somehow the name that stuck in our heads was “Garibdas” ) trekker hut , it was pretty much just us that day. The rooms are huge and it had in

Finally penning this after over a full year of the trip. I had been toying with the Sandakphu idea for a couple years and finally, it panned out towards the end of November 2018. A

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The usual flock of wild alexandrines this morn. Not the best background and couldn’t position any better but, good fun watching them ! Uncropped FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

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My standard wildlife set used to be 600mm F4 (5.06 kg) , 300mm F2.8 (2.9Kg) , 70-200mm F2.8 (1.4 Kg) , which is a total of 9.36 Kg . The new PF lenses by Nikon help reduce this to

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Bhandup birding

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Early june flowering trees . Delonix Regia common name Gulmohur. I think the flowering is about a month or so later than it is usually ? Summer tree flowers are so pretty ! Faceboo

Dakota Yakolev Sukoi 30M LCH AN-132 Rafale C17 F16- Viper LCA Tejas Sarang Helicopter aerobatics Mostly all settings including White balance is manual. 24-120mm for the Yokolevs wo

I had tried to shoot a milkyway at Sandakphu but my lack of expertise got me a nice blur of a shot. However this weekend I had a chance to learn some of this techniques from folks

Balcony in Jan 2019. Parakeet, landscape, art

Set shot starting from October 01, 2018 from my balcony. Colours Birds Parakeets Pond Herons   And the peregrine falcon makes is appearance for the season 🙂   Facebook

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Most of us usually use multiple cameras on a shoot. Putting the images in a time sequence means that the time is correctly synced on both cameras. This is also critical when you us

A pano stitch   FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Typical monsoon day in Mumbai . Traffic and water logging as ever. But the clouds from my balcony made up for all the travails of the day 🙂 Nikon D5 , 50mm 1.8G and insane ISOs

I have been wanting to write a few things on the Nikon D5 control settings that seem to be working well for me. 1. Quickly switching between AF modes: Usual situation when you want

———– Some folks like to get away, Take a holiday from the neighborhood Hop a flight to Jubbalpur or to Nagpur But I’m takin’ a flight on the Cha

Dusty Safari Gear List other than the camera gear

The cab driver was on the phone to someone and, was saying that he is going to “Jim Corporate Park” 😉 The trip had happened quite by chance. In Jan, I had called Gir

I use a old Gitzo 1548 for my 600mm FL.  But new and lighter options are now available. My 1548 folded is just under 23.25  inches(59 cm)  and weighs 3 Kgs. Load cap

While researching the Nikon 600mm FL arca swiss compatible lens foot I came across Simon’s blog The new Nikon 600mm FL is a new lighter design and I got the new RRS LCF-18 I

We did a morning boat ride at Bhandup to see some waders. The boat point is right at the end of the Bhandup pump station road. A good time to go there is some two hours before high

One usual challenge on trips is, sometimes I need to use a shorter  lens for landscapes when using a wimberly gimbal. My camera has a L plate so I can mount it on a ball head

We reached Velavdar by 1700H. Ramzan bhai our guide had called us a few times to know when we were reaching. We had no plans for a safari that day since we had driven from Zainabad

The route On the morning of our departure from Desert Coursers we got the contact for the Indian Eagle owl at Wadhwan.The name I was given was a Devrath Sinh, an avid birdwatcher.

Shot from the Alibagh ferry off Mumbai     FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Ive been wanting to visit the “Littel Rann of Kutch” (LRK) for a while now. When I checked with Adesh his trip was fully booked. I made a quick call to Rahul at Foliage

Sunrise Rose Ringed Parakeet on the  “Flame of the forest” FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

I did a quick one day trip to Thattekad, again.  The last time, I had lost my favourite RX-100 while birding. Eldhose later called and informed me that he had found the camera

On 10th Nov 2017, I decided on a quick one day overnight trip to Eldhose Birding Lodge at Thattekad, Kerala . My plan was to reach by afternoon, send the evening and the next morni

This Brahma Kamal bloomed at my mum’s place. Ive seen it bloom only at night . This has bloomed on two consecutive months  September and October 2017. The flower has a w

Balcony birding The regular shots Note on BIF Auto Focus for the D5 One of the AF modes on the D5 that I found useful for BIF ( for these parakeets in flight)  is the “G

Sunday morning birding from my balcony. It was kind of sporadic showers today , more like a cloud burst than the monsoons. The usual alexandrine flock was flying around my balcony.

I had planned along with Nitin, a sneak day to photograph the brilliant Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher (ODKF) this monsoon. This is an extremely small and very colourful birdie that bre

I decided to mix things up a bit and get myself into a Macro workshop at SGNP. SGNP is a place to definitely go in the monsoons. I pulled out my eight year old and not yet used F2

Just got informed that my photo of the fighting baya weavers got the winner award in the Birds category at Naturesbest Asia – Japan ! http://www.naturesbestphotography.asia/e

Nikon D5 , 600mm F4 VR FL These guys were making a racket outside my balcony on the wire. Just had to pull out the gear and shoot. Used the Gitzo 1548 tripod along with the wimberl

Nikon D5 , 600mm F4 VR FL The standard shot   The not so standard shot   The standard shot ( Western Reef Egret )   The not so standard shot   FacebookTwitterLi

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Took a recce trip to sewri today in the early morning. The tide was moving out and it had almost receded half way to low tide when we reached. Sunrise today was  at 0643 so no

After some two plus years, pulled out my tripod and my new upgraded faithful, the  600mm F4 VR FL.  Good to be back in action ! Not may birds but some usual suspects. The

Got lucky with shooting some planes 🙂 But its boring to process so many shots !!!  I made a few batch runs in Nikon Capture NX-D followed by another batch run in Photoshop

The “old magazine house” at Ganeshgudi is a paradise for BOS – Bird on a Stick photographers. While I shot a lot of “BOS” the aim was also to make a f

Did a late trip to Bhandup today morning. Not much activity but the star of the morning was a Golden oriole. I tried the TC14 along with the 200-500mm. Really slow for flight shots

Off late I am tending to prefer these kind of interpretative shots. Nikon D5, 50mm F1.8 , Manual De-focus , High key exposure The leaping dancer FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

In continuation of exploring some different photography. The not so standard shot of the same “Red Breasted Parakeet” Nikon D5, 105mm F2.8 VR FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

I went over to my friends place at Andheri, Mumbai where one can see Red Breasted Parakeets ! Looks like these are cage released/ feral but now have adapted to Mumbai. Usually thes

Sanjay Gandhi National Park Nothing much in terms of birds but, made some sunray images. Nikon D5, 50mm F1.8 🙂 FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Pegion Parakeet and a plane ! Flying into the sunset FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Parakeets at sunset   Fly past   Peregrine in the clouds FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

All shot on 1/10th shutter speeds Black Kite in ” slow mo ”   And a Parakeet   FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

The standard shot   The not so standard shot. Gives a sense of speed of what is, one of the fastest birds on the planet.   While tracking the falcon, it chanced on a pass

Pretty rare sighting for Mumbai. I saw a flock of Alpine swifts high over Aarey colony in Mumbai. When I checked with Adesh Shivkar , he informed me that this is indeed a rare sigh

A HDR blend with seven exposures plus a long exposure with a 9 stop ND filter Blending and processing workshop by the master of blending  Daniel Cheong FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

  And got a red cheeked bulbul too Yellow eyed babbler Baya weaver feeding   Baya weaver feeding behaviour from krish photo on Vimeo. FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

The regular pic The not so regular pics. I tried to incorporate the fabulous evening sky today. More in the gallery below FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Another of the birdies from my balcony. Alexandrine parakeets with a slow shutter speed. Nikon D5, Nikkor 200-500mm @ 500mm,   ISO 320, 1/15th , F25 , AF-C, d-72, VR ON – Sp

  Today it was way past dusk and very poor light. I heard the familar screech from the wire outside my balcony . Decided to test the high ISO on the D5.  Only one word ,

I limited my full shooting today to just one shutter speed,  1/30th of a second. The idea was to get a nice pan blur of the parakeets from my balcony.   Nikon D5, Nikkor

Next time need to go down to 1/30th to get a good pan blur  background Nikon D5, Nikkor 200-500mm @ 370mm,   ISO 160, 1/125th , F6.3 , AF-C, Group AF, VR OFF FacebookTwit

Nikon D5, Nikkor 200-500mm @ 500mm,   ISO 1EV under 100, 1/60th , F56.3 , AF-C, Group AF, VR OFF   FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

The standard shot Nikon D5, Nikkor 200-500mm @ 500mm,   ISO 2500, 1/1250th , F5.6 , AF-C, Group AF The not so standard shots Nikon D5, Nikkor 200-500mm @ 500mm,   ISO 1EV

I did a second trip to Bhandup today. It was drizzling throughout. Mostly whiskered terns and prinias but all of the birds inside the vegetation. Tried a few slower shutter speed s

I discovered an interesting setting that might be useful in a lot of situations. I usually work using  AF-C, d-9 or d-21 most times with back button AF-ON only. But some times

2001 – Nikon F5 film body (launched 1996) – 36 shots, more with a spool adaptor 2016 – Nikon D5 Digital body ( launched 2016) – 5120 shots  on a 128 GB

The latest crop of Nikons seems to have much improved auto focus . Again shot from a balcony 😉 Take a look at these shots here. Shot through foliage and one can still nail the e

I am finally posting some scans of velvia that I had shot way back in 2003. This was a self project for documenting two fishing harbours close to Colombo,  Negambo and Beruwel

  Last week I got nominated for another award by Nature in Focus for this snow leopard scape pic. Nature in Focus is a stellar nature photography festival and has some of the

My picture of a “tigress slips while crossing a stream with her cub in her mouth”  won in the category Wildlife- Highly honoured award at the 2016 Smithsonian

I am writing this blog from my notes more than an year after the trip. Somehow, since the last some years, I was not in my usual frame of mind to pen my thoughts . Also, my ph

Malabar Pied Hornbill, Dandeli. Nikon D3S, 600mm F4 + TC 14, ISO 640, 1/800 , F8 Messy frame, hornbill a tad out of focus, running into the frame edge but, heck I still like it:-)

Firstly wish you all a very Happy New Year !   As usual I woke up early today to the screech of parakeets , on a wire outside my window. I decided to take out the old faithful

Pulled  out my Nikon D3 today. Felt like taking pictures after a heck of a long time ! We had some very pretty “gerbera” flowers and,  I had to take out my &#

Landscape straight from my Lumia 1020 mobile phone   Black Billed Magpie   FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Slow slow shutter speed pan shot, from my balcony today Nikon D800 , Tamron 150-600 @ 500mm, ISO 100, F14, 1/20th, manual exposure   I think the B&W works much better. Fac

Finally went into Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) today.  Cold morning and the birding group got cancelled. But, we managed to get a guide and do the Shilonda trail. Heard

Went in with zero hope. The place is 2% of what it used to be in terms of birds. All the same,  Uran surprised me with some of my favourites, The LTS ( Long Tailed Shrike) , a

A quick trip to Goa and on the Zuari river. Pretty much the usual suspects 🙂 Quaint Chapel at Solva Gold fronted leaf bird Palm frond Crocodile Night Heron takeoff Brahminy Kite

Dec 2013 – Jor Beed the carcass dump near Bikaner is “the place”  to shoot raptors & vultures. Huge amount of Steppe eagles all over the place And got lu

End May 2014, I did a trip to Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve. Full report coming up. Here are some  quick teaser pics   Tiger in the woods , T-72, Sultan   FacebookTwitt

Went in the afternoon to Sewri today. Just after high tide and, the birds started to fly back in towards the water edge closest to us. Harsh noon sun so not exactly great for photo

“To see a Snow Leopard in the wild,  be prepared not to see it” – Krishnan 🙂 I think it was sometimes in school when I first read about Snow leopards, 

Wish come true . ( Earlier post here https://www.krishphoto.com/time-capsule/uncia-uncia.html ) Quick post after a hard 12 days in the high altitude and snow Three snow leopards An

All shot in 1997 January from a IL-76 aircraft. Aerial shot of the winter snow over the Leh mountains while approaching Khardung-La pass Shot this in 1997 from an IL-76 aircraft wh

Tal Chappar, Churu District, Rajasthan, India – Dec 2013 Last month KP called me and had asked if I was interested in a trip to Tal Chapar. Frankly I wasn’t sure but I

Tal Chapar grassland scape,  before I write the blog, here are some  teasers  😉 Nikon D3, 600mm F4, ISO1600, 1/640 , F9 The mighty Tawny eagle – The regular shot Nikon

Got up early on a Sunday to wait for the Peregrine Falcon. Sure enough it came but, was way high up today. But the landscape was looking interesting . This is what it was like 🙂

I did a quick test yesterday to determine if the right shift of exposure had any implications to the RAW file size.  Sure it does. Under exposure got me a – 39 MB RAW fi

I waited for this chappie to show up today.  He came in abit late and I was unprepared. My ISO should have been higher to get a faster shutter speed. More like ISO 1250 or hig

Another of the ever changing landscape from my balcony. The winter is setting and the mist is coming up Nikon D800E, 300mm F2.8, ISO125, 1/10th @ F10 Colour version Sepia version H

Another of the ever changing landscape from my balcony. The winter is setting and the leaves are drying up. Nikon D800E, 300mm F2.8, ISO320, 1/100th @ F10 FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

We checked out Uran toady after a long time. Last visit was in October 2009 when I got the baya weaver fighting shot. We saw a lot of birds on the pools , immediately after the big

  Shot at Bharatpur last year. Nikon D3, 600mmVR, ISO320, 1/200 @ F5   B&W converted FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Nikon D3, 17-35 F2.8 , ISO 400, 1/250th @ F5.6 , Manual Exposure Converted to B&W This image made it to the prestigious inaugural three set, Coffee Table Book by Creative Natur

Nikon D800E, 600mm VR + TC17,  ISO 4000, 1/1600th @ F8 , Manual Exposure FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Rakesh & I today made an impromptu birding trip to Bhandup today The sun was playing hide and seek. Luckily no rain. Definitely not as great a birding place as Uran was but,&nb

The camera evolution is moving more and more towards  mirrorless systems. The broad progression is something like this below:- Mechanical Film camera > Automatic Film Camer

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The regular pic for a comparison 🙂 Nikon D800E, 600mm VR + TC17, ISO 1EV under 100, 1/200th , F8 FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Sunday, 19 May 2013: I went to Sewri yesterday after a long gap. High tide was at a convenient 1830H. I reached the jetty at 1530H. The flamingos were there still. No sign of any w

Another from my balcony, with a Sony RX-100 FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Nikon D800E , 50mm F1.8G, ISO100, 1/60 @F1.8 . EV +1 There were this few white gerbera flowers in a vase. I set them against the sky in my balcony and shot. I processed them in sep

  Ranthambor. This was one elusive tiger that one could barely see . The huge male was sitting in a nalla, behind some bushes. We waited till the safari time was almost up but

We made it to Pavna after a long time. Amazing to be back with friends at the Templepilots paragliding site 🙂 I went minimal with just a D800E and a 35-80 lens . Paraglider over

All shots D800E + 50mm 1.8G lens. Couple more in the gallery below. FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

A word of super customer service for Pelican stormcase. The wheel rubber on my iM2500 came off during my recent trip to Bharatpur. The rubber broke off as I rolled the case at the

Starting up 2013 🙂 I think I found good use for my old 70-210 push pull zoom lens 🙂 FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Very foggy two days at Bhartpur around Christmas 2012. Egret in flight. Shot the reflection 😉 D800E, 600mmVR + TC14,ISO800, 1/200th @F7.1 (Manual Focus) D800E, 70-210 F4/5.6 D,

D800, 70-200 F2.8 VR, ISO100 , 6seconds @ F2.8 And a couple more in the gallery here FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Nikon D800E, 17-35mm 2.8, ISO 100, 1/20 @ F 5.6 on tripod & circular polarising filter FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Heart Spotted woodpecker, Ganeshgudi Nikon D3, 600mm VR + TC17EII, ISO 800, 1/320th @ F8 (Manual Exposure) White Bellied Sea eagle, Karwar Nikon D3, 70-200 VR, ISO 100, 1/500th @ F

Just played around with defocusing the lights from my balcony. Nikon D800E 50mm 1.8G, ISO 4000, 1/20th, @ F1.8 ( Manual Focus) Nikon D800E 50mm 1.8G, ISO 4000, 1/50th, @ F1.8 ( Man

Nikon D800E 70-200mm 2.8 VR, ISO 5000, 1/8th, @ F7.1 Nikon D800E 17-35mm 2.8, ISO 1600, 1/25th, @ F3.5, + built in flash Grab from the video clip FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Nikon D2X, 70-200 2.8VR, ISO 100, 1/13 @F22 (Manual Exposure) Nikon D3, 17-35mm 2.8, ISO 200, 1/200 @F5.6 + Circular Polariser (Manual Exposure) Nikon D3, 70-200 2.8VR, ISO 500, 1/

Nikon D800E, 17-35mm 2.8,  ISO 100, 1/50 @ F 5.6 on tripod & circular polarising  filter And here is the Black & White version FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Nikon D800E, 600 f4 VR, TC14, ISO 2000, 1/1600 @ F 6.3 FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

A small picture story

Teaser below 🙂 The regular shot   The not so regular shot   FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Parakeet flight – Top sides Free ranging Alexandrine Parakeets at Mumbai. Nikon D3,  600mm VR + TC 17 , ISO 2500,  1/1600 @ F7.1  (Manual Exposure ) Nikon D3,&

Parakeet flight blur Free ranging Alexandrine Parakeets at Mumbai. Nikon D3, 300mm VR + TC 14 , ISO 200,  1/10 @ F10  (Manual Exposure )  Parakeets 6 , Parakeets 4 ,

Two parakeets making a racket outside my balcony this evening and,  I couldn’t resist  a shot 🙂 Free ranging Alexandrine Parakeets at Mumbai. Nikon D3, 300mm VR

I did a quick trip to Sewri today.  The flamingos are much lesser in number  than I recall seeing in earlier years. ( My last  sewri visit was April 2008 ! ) Yesterd

Dandeli The Malabar Pied Hornbill in flight, the regular shot.   The Malabar Pied Hornbill in flight, the not so regular shot 🙂   The Malabar Pied Hornbill BOS (bird o

Free ranging Alexandrine Parakeets at Mumbai. Nikon D3, 600mm VR + TC 17 , ISO 2500,  1/2500 @ F6.7 (Manual Exposure )   Nikon D3, 600mm VR + TC 17 , ISO 2500,  1/25

Creativity is something,  I little understand.   Mostly my brain works in the engineering space so in a sense, my approach is quite structured,  well… at

Nikon D2X, 70-200 mm 2.8 VR,  ISO100, 1/320, F2.8  (manual exposure) Parakeets 6 , Parakeets 5 , Parakeets 4, Parakeets 3, Parakeets 1 FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

  Woke up to some parakeets making a racket 🙂   I need to get these beauties in flight one of these days ! Nikon D3, 300mm 2.8 VR,  ISO800, 1/1250, F5.6 (man

I was in Bangalore over the weekened with a relative with no camera and , zero thoughts of birds. But, luck was on my side and to my pleasant surprise,  his balcony juts into

  I have been wanting to link some of the resources I thought were useful to understand how to work the “Better Beamer”  Fresnel Flash extender. How I use fla

  Processed two images from my last years Kanha trip,  into B&W. Shot while waiting for tigers to show up…… Elephant Grass (Nikon D2x, 600mm VR + TC14, IS

Tricoloured Heron, St Augustine Alligator Farm, Florida Nikon D3, 300mm 2.8 ++TC14, ISO800, 1/1250 @F5.6 , Manual metering, Full Frame FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

I did a quick two day work trip to Jodhpur.  Ofcourse, carted my gear in case I got some opportunities 🙂 Comb Duck, Guda village pond, off Jodhpur. I am sure this place wou

Letting Go of the Camera – Brooks Jensen Click for Kindle version The Photographer’s Mind -Michael Freeman Why Photographs Work: 52 Great Images Who Made Them, What Mak

    This is a photography workshop for all those who want to participate in a fun & open learning session with a super instructor and, improve their image making skil

Chas helped this one since it was him who pointed out the background. The  gold really works here. Nikon D3, 300mm 2.8 VR + TC17, ISO 400, 1/3200, F5.6 , Manual spot metered o

Nikon D3, 300mm 2.8 VR +TC17, ISO 800, 1/1250, F4.8 ,  Manual Metering (Full Frame ) FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Just back after attending the superb Tech Series workshop by Charles Glatzer at St Augustine FL, USA. Learnt a lot and,  got some basics re-sorted 🙂 Shot from day 1 of the

On 02 April I did a quick trip to Goa. For the gear that I packed, see the preceding post. Mr. BM Kamath runs boat trips on the Zuari. His setup is called “Crocodile Station&

My current setup is a 2 bag setup. This setup goes easy on the back. Stormcase iM2500 , is a roller and packs the following :- 600mm F4 VR without hood 300mm 3.8 VR with Hood Nikon

After a rather long break,  Rakesh called me for some shooting this morning. A small plot inside Thane ( a suburb or Mumbai) had four different types of birdies.  We saw

The Telegraph & The Daily mail (Uk newspapers) published my Baya weaver pictures. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/8298123/Pictures-of-the-day-

Pretty much as I shot . Just added some noise in post processing. D2x, 600mm VR, ISO 320, 1/800 @ F8 , -1 EV FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Red Leaf,  @ Akshi Beach, Alibagh Nikon D2X, 600mmVR + TC17EII, ISO 640, 1/1000th @F8 Western Reef Egret Landing, Today @ Akshi Beach, Alibagh Nikon D2X, 600mmVR + TC17EII, IS

This image of mine won the First place in the 2010 National Wildlife Photo contest (U.S.A) ! The  NWF Photo contest is one of the Premier Wildlife Photo contests in the world.

The hard ground barasingha @ Mukki Jungle cat. D2X, 600VR+TC14,ISO 320,  1/20th @F8 .   Manually focused. Langur Nikon D3, 300mm 2.8 VR, ISO 250,  1/16oth @F3.5 , -0

Just back from Krabi Thailand 🙂 Two quick  landscapes from the trip…. Nikon D3, 17-35mm 2.8, F5, 1/1250 . ISO 200 with Hoya CPL filter. Nikon D3, 35-80mm, ISO 250, F5

I had a hard time shooting in the cold  at Corbett National park last winter. So I did some research and picked up these gloves . Two layer approach should do fine 🙂 On the

Understanding Exposure & Colour Luminosity (Linked an old 2007 thread from dpreview) I thought I would link a wonderful thread from a Guru … ” Sensei Ron Reznick &#

I recently got hold of a pen tablet the Wacom Intuos 4 ( Medium Sized which is the PTK-640) Wacom Specifications Definitely much better than using a mouse. It will take a little ge

Well here are my basic post processing steps that I follow. I use the Nikon software Nikon Capture NX2. But you can use the same flow in pretty much any image processing software.

After a long while did some bird photography around Mumbai today. Visited the Nagla Block , SNGP this  morning along with Rakesh Dhareshwar. Some stuff made while waiting. Thi

Just back from a week long work trip and I found that we had forgotten to keep the yogurt, inside the refrigerator. So , this is what I got after one week in the Mumbai humidity �

Over the Easter weekend, uber bird photographer & friend,  Ramki and I made a plan to do some wader photography at Jamnagar.  I was any case planning to make a visit

Did a quick trip to Bandhavgarh basically to look for the new cubs.  Finally, after a lot of attempts,  saw one cub in the last minute of the last safari .   In all

Requiem : – The Requiem or Requiem Mass, also known as the Missa pro defunctis (Latin, “Mass for the deceased”) or Missa defunctorum (“Mass of the deceased&

We took a quick 2 day trip to Corbett National Park over Christmas. Peak season, not the best time but, that’s all what I was able to manage in a hurry. It was more of a recc

The ferry  from Gateway to Alibagh is a good one to practice some flight shots. Nikon D3, 300mm 2.8 VR, ISO2000,  1/1600, F5 , Ev +1 Nikon D3, 300mm 2.8 VR, ISO3200, 

My old CRT was beginning to give some problems so went looking for a replacement. The NEC  LCD2690WUXi^2 is a 25.5 inch wide gamut monitor. If you want to get hold of one you

Woke up 3 AM on the sunday and drove to Akshi along with Girish, Parag, Swapneel & Rakesh. Right there at the crack of dawn 🙂 Receding tide and I went down on the wet beach

Got a cover shot published  in the Jet Lite inflight  Magazine “Flylite”  October 2009 issue. 8 AM, Rajbehra, Bandhavgarh National Park, May 2009 Nikon D

This is a way overdue report and I will keep it short. The Scarlet Sunbird from our hotel room. A really really long shot with the 600 + TC 17 ( 1/60th  @ F6.7 ISO 250) 

I went to Kalyan today along with Rakesh. Lots of sightings but not much photographically. A Spotted Munia A Pied Cuckoo And finally a funky processed shot FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Took a trip to Uran today. Well the land filling of the marshes are well underway. The bushes that screened the water are all chopped off. The pools are smaller and my favourite te

Today, I tried something which I usually don’t . Regular flower macros but I spun them a lil in post processing. And here is the yellow rose 🙂 FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

I recently answered someones question on Nikon AF settings on a wildlife photography related website. Thought it would be good to publish it here as well. Well, different AF modes

For the pic impatient: For all the pics of the trip (many more than posted  on the blog )  >>> Click Here Back in November when I went to Bandhavgarh, I had plan

It was blazing hot today morning. No sign of even the usual birdies. But even so,  three  from today. Something about Kingfishers that you cant help making a picture even

This is why manual White Balance on the camera helps at times. Both  identically exposed Nikon D3, ISO200, 1/250th @ F4. Out of the camera jpeg, resized with no other processi

Rustom is the guy. One really sweet and wonderful Bodo who has the finest eye for them birdies. But, before I get to Rustom…. Rustom on the right The Kingfisher flight from M

I just got back from a trip to Manas & Kaziranga National Parks. One of the things I wanted to try was “Geotagging“. Geotagging helps to write the exact location wh

This pic made it to the Nikon stall at the Photo Fair 2009 being held at New Delhi from 08 Jan – 11 Jan 2009. The photo is the backdrop for the “Wildlife Zone” wh

After a long gap since my Bandhavgarh trip I finally moved my butt and hit Uran along with Rakesh Dhareshwar . All D3, 600mm VR Morning, pre dawn, D3 @ ISO 4000, 600VR +TC 20. I li

Another back-breaking six hour drive from Kanha- Kisli is, Bandhavgarh. The road is being resurfaced for most parts so be prepared for a pretty tough ride 🙂 Checked into Tiger T

A back-breaking five hours from Pench , we drove into Tuli resorts at Kanha. The rooms were splendid and we got lucky with meeting Karan Modi, who was mentioned to us by the “

We had planned a trip to Kanha – Bandhavgarh to do some tiger watching in the wild. As luck would have it, we did not get the first day booking at Kanha . Hence we decided to

A few months back, I had gone over to a friends place in Delhi.  He is a photography buff as well and, he asked me to get a few images on a USB stick. I had just got back from

Comin up ……Some initial pics posted. (09 Nov 08) For the pics …ClickHere FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Continuing from Bagsutra Part – 2 I got fed up of looking at bags for my 600mm VR with hood + body + TC + a few odd ends like a flash etc so I decided to design one of my own

Went for a spin to Uran today along with Rakesh Dhareshwar. Yes them migrants are in 🙂 We even saw a Peregrine grab some early lunch 🙂  No luck with pictures on that eve

  I recently got a mail from a friend who wanted my thoughts on switching systems because of his problems ( in specific cases) with AF on the D300. Well here goes. Equipment d

Finally hit Uran over the weekend 🙂 Red Avadavat @ Uran Today D2X, 600mm + TC14, lying prone on the ground at our very dependable, what I will now call “Rue de la Prinia&#

I worked on this pic from Tadoba, so as to blur everything but, the four spotted owlets. And here is another which is not as much blurred. FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

With the monsoon in full swing, we headed out to Uran to check things out. Luckily it did not rain for most parts. We saw Pheasant tailed Jacanas in full breeding regalia in the po

After a three hours forty minutes being on “holding pattern”, our flight into Nagpur got diverted to Hyderabad. We cooled our heels waiting inside the aircraft for the

Teaser Pics for now…report and more pics to follow 🙂 Left: Indian Roller, Right: Green Bee eater Left: Pied Kingfisher Hover, Right: Lesser Whistling Teals Pack Attack ! W

From my 23rd floor apartment today evening 6PM. A quick, four shot hand held pano which I  stitched. FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Continuing from Bagsutra Part-1 I got hold of the Lowepro Vertex 300 bag and here is what I am able to load. Pic below. The 600mm is in the lenscoat camo in the bottom of the frame

Sometime in the early eighties I had read Peter Mathiessen’s book “The Snow Leopard”. The book is about the legendary biologist George Schaller and his efforts to

If you have a long lens like the 400/500/600 or the 800, and you have a solid support you, do need stellar long lens technique to get the sharpest shot possible. So here are a few

Always plan as “Carry On”, cameras & lenses. Option 1 : All in One Bag Carry On Approach : The Think Tank Airport Security ( a roller bag) or, the Airport Addicted

Lately I am being asked, what else one needs when you get hold of a big 400mm/ 500mm/ 600mm / 800mm lens. So here is my list of typical long lens accessories that you might need. I

I sat down and drew up a bean bag design and got a “Prototype” stitched. Here is how it looks as of now. No fancy material, just out of thin cotton as of now just to ge

Scooted off to Uran today along with Adesh Shivkar. And we got them Snipes…tons of them ! Well, first off we got this Wood Sandpiper takin a morning dip First The Female Pain

We made a trip to Mahul to watch flamingos from the boat. Rakesh and Tushar joined in for the boatride. I carted both, the 600 F4 VR and the 300 F2.8 VR in a Stormcase iM2500. Both

Finally finally I got a little time to shoot my first pics with the new Nikon 600mm VR lens. With the lens in a soft regular duffel bag, I carted it to Siwree in my car. Yes, I rea

Been frightfully busy with work and travel ( well who isnt ?) and then I get the call I was waiting for…. This is the underground water tank cover at my local gym which I see

Last week I landed a now discontinued, Nikon D40 ( 6Megapixels only) for my friend. I got a great deal on it at Wing Shing Photo, Mongkok, Hongkong. Wing Shing & Man Shing, bot

Finally we moved our backsides and went for this season’s first paragliding trip. Had to work the the skills back and we spent the larger part of the Friday and Saturday of t

Picked out slides from my collection and scanned them in today. These slides are from the years 1996 thru 1998 . Teasers below. This is the “basha” or hut I used to sta

Low tide again in the morning but Rakesh and I went to Airoli in any case. As luck would have it the waders were pretty far away. But I managed a coupla Redshank pics at eyelevel b

Today, after a long gap, I pulled out some old transparencies for scanning. The 1994 Original Roadies 🙂 We had done a Pune-Cochin bike trip way back in April 1994 . Four guys (

I use RAW exclusively. 1. Set view to 100% then,  turn OFF Sharpening in the Base Adjustment. 2. Base Adjustment> Camera Adjustments> Sharpening set to NONE. 3. Base Adj

Who said one needs to travel long distances for birding ? I got lucky again this morning and was happy to bird from the cosy environs of my home with a hot cuppa coffee in one hand

Today was supposed to be a birding on a boat at Airoli mangroves. My good friend Kishore Bhargava was along as well and it was fun shooting with him. But, low tide it was and that

Today was supposed to be a a new route …via a boat thru the Airoli mangroves. The tide was out at 8 A.M and when Rakesh and I reached the place there was no boatman either. A

Evening and I heard a very unfamiliar call from outside my home window. I looked and found a rather unfamiliar but cool looking parrot. Luckily the bird sat around calling long eno

Rakesh and I decided to check out Airoli. We decided to check out the grassland side towards the open ground. We did see a lot of activity but mostly too far to do much photographi

Coimbatore : Deepavali week and amidst all the relative visits and the shopping and eating we decided to check out Top-Slip and Parmbikulam Wildlife Sanctuary on a quick day trip.

Hit Uran again today. The tide was out but, the water was let in at places I guess. Hence, the birds were not near the road. The fishermen were in full flow early in the morning fu

Getting pro gear in India is such a pain ( thats another story in itself for some other time ) but finally on 20th October 2007, I got hold of a VR 300mm F2.8G lens. I was being to

After the rains in September, the Uran area pools are full of water and just perfect for the incoming migrants to stage on their way inwards from the west. The best way to capture

We went to Uran today after a long break. The pools were full and the vegetation thick. Since the water level was too high couldnt find any waders close by to photograph. First we

Finally pulled out some of my Military shots. This shot of the National Defence Academy, Pune, India was taken in 1990 when I was part of the “demo jump”. My divisional

Continuing the scan series….I pulled out some Ladakh slides You can see more of these here. FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Weekend decided to pull out my little used Nikon LS-4000 scanner and scan a few of my slides. The Sri Lanka folder is kinda empty so decided to fill in those a bit. Velvia sure loo

Usually I read that H-2 on the D2X is not usable and that has been my experience too but, today was different….very different. The D2X and the D200 have an item on their R

Itchy fingers and we decided to tag along with the Mumbai Bird Watchers Club’s trail walk at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park. The idea was to see the Oriental Dwarf Kingfishe

I was debating whether to take the camera to Singapore but, as usual ended up taking my pack along 🙂 ISO 800 shots at the Sentosa Underwater World Got a few touristy shots of Se

Finally my login to my site is working again ! Had to rebuild apache & PHP after a MySql upgrade. This is where you can find more info for getting over the the login problem up

Took off at dawn today with Rakesh Dhareshwar and headed to Airoli mangroves. As luck would have it I got a few nice ones of a white cheeked bulbul. Further along the path I got a

Day 6 — The lure of the Sea Eagle! We were ready at 0630 sharp and caught up with Karthick at the dining hut. A quick cuppa tea and we moved towards the jetty. Just as we nea

10th March ’07— Rockin … Down the Highway…( Doobie Brothers Song) We were packed and rolling by 0420H and strangely uplifted enough at the thought of the va

Whew…was getting worried that this season we may not see them flamingos in Bombay. Those pink birdies are definitely back but so far their numbers are lower than expected. So

Yep..badly needed a break from getting the Chinese to understand a mix of North African French-Arabic mix! Yep, interesting job I have here but, it does get a lil …well..you

I was at Sewree about three hours before high tide. High tide was at 1830 approx and we reached there by 1500H. First scouted behind the Colgate factory…nothing at all. All t

Last week I had to visit Beijing on work. It was a super cold minus five degree celsius. Try as I might, I did not get time off to take much photographs. But, I did manage to get t

Late last night I got an sms from Rakesh and we decided to go to Uran today. The toss up was between Uran & Karnala. Uran it was, since I was more familiar with Uran. We decide

Somewhere in the confusion of shifting the website, the site got deleted before we could take a backup. No major loss. Quickly ‘Googled’ for most of my blog pages and s

When my parents finally shifted from Delhi to Coimbatore, I picked up a huge packet of negatives that my mum had saved. Over this new year weekend I glanced thru some of them and d

After a long time I wanted to scan a few of my slides with my Coolscan LS 4000 scanner. Try as I might, the scanner would not get detected by WinXP. I use the NEC Firewire card tha

Saturday 23rd Dec ‘06…woke up really early 4 A.M, nice cuppa filter coffee and started out at 0520H to Uran for a shoot along with Rakesh Dhareshwar. I had met Rakesh i

Absolutely busy trip and I hardly got any time to grab any pictures.Anyways, some of my fave shots from my trip to Casablanca. Two of my fav shots from the trip. The first is the K

Greetings from Casablanca, Morocco! Work brought me here for a week. Yes, do have my gear along and hope to click when and if I can find time I did update my D2X firmware back to V

Got up a lil late today, at 0430H and, headed out to Uran again. Migration is now in full swing so thought we should be able to get a few new birdies. Yesterday I updated my D2X fi

DK-17M Eyepiece Magnifier 1. Remove the rubber ring around the eyepiece. You will expose the Nikon white labeling info on the eyepiece rim. DK-2 Eyecup 1. Remove the Threaded ring

Long weekend and for a change, decided to stay back in Mumbai. But, today morning we woke up at 4 AM, grabbed a cuppa Kaapi a.k.a coffee. BTW mine is Mysore filter coffee to be exa

I had always wanted to start the Wildlife Sanctuary rounds and this August over the Independence day weekend (Aug 12-15th 2006), we decided to join Adesh Shivkar and gang to see th

Hornbills were what was on my mind when I planned to visit Dandeli, Karnataka, India Best time to photograph hornbills is Dec thru March. And the best places are right on the river

New D2x, plentiful rains and a trip to Bharatpur yippe! Thats exactly what we did. After almost four years of drought, the waterways were full and the birds plentiful. We stayed at