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08/07/2025

These two Little bee-eaters were flying around trying to catch insects in the air near the Masai Kopjes in the Serengeti National Park.

24/06/2025

An Evening With Amani and Nyoni. It was close to five in the evening. The sky was overcast. A gentle breeze swept through our camp and our staff were busy winding up the day's work. We got wind that the two cheetahs were surveying the grasslands through the tall elephant grass and moving southwards. Trying to get a vantage, they would hop on to a dead tree or climb up a mound to scan the vistas scouting for prey. The brothers are young and healthy and there were certainly hungry. It started to drizzle and the breeze died down and they moved through the grass with loping grace. They stayed together grooming each other when the drizzle broke into a rain and frequently looking back at us posing for a shot against the beauty and vastness of the Serengeti.

16/11/2024

There is a certain charm to Amboseli with the Kilimanjaro towering in the distance. And that makes this Park one of the most beautiful national parks in Africa I've been to. You have the woodlands, forested sections, swamps, lakes, hills and the parched, cracked and salty earth where the big tuskers roam in herds. But the older males like Craig, who's fifty, lead a solitary life after having left the herd. And a mighty tusker like him appears with the Kilimanjaro in the background, Amboseli comes alive.

30/10/2024

Most people will tell you that it is their favourite place to see big herds of elephants. It is a photographer's delight. The snow capped Kilimanjaro towers above the Park lending a magnificent backdrop to the animals that roam in the dusty plains of Amboseli. The marshes, swamps and lakes punctuate the parched and cracked earth in the Park. This year, it has not rained since April. The Ol Tukai lodge is an oasis. Where else will you get to have breakfast watching zebras wildebeests and elephants browsing in front of you and Kilimanjaro in the distant. It gets warm during the day and the dust devils spiral into the sky in the afternoon. A few years ago, I happen to photograph Tim, then the biggest tusker and Craig, seen here, Tim's successor, and the biggest one in Kenya and perhaps tusker in the world. We got wind that Craig was around. He is always chaperoned by a ranger to ensure that he is safe and sound. It was late last Saturday afternoon we found him below this Acacia and browsing behind a tall bush cooling off with a sand shower. Like always, a few egrets kept him company. It must have been five in the evening, he decided to sway into my view right into my frame, his right tusk almost scraping the ground. We spent more than two hours with him. Craig is gentle, giving and accommodative. He is just magical and mesmerising. Not sure about the month, the Amboseli Ecosystem records say he is fifty. Joy, you must be a tad older. Happy birthday! From the salty and dusty plains of Amboseli.

19/09/2024

Somewhere in the Serengeti!

03/10/2023

Tashi is unrelenting. It is snowing and the winds howling. He is glued to his binoculars. He scans the horizon in a whiteout where it is impossible for the human eye to see anything. He is made of a different mettle. Born in Manang, Tashi knows the mountains like the back of his hand. In fact, he knows the trails, rocks, cliffs, crags, and the ridgelines snow leopards frequent. He has fixed camera traps from Manang all the way upto 5000 M and higher spanning hundreds and thousands of square kilometres for several organisations including the BBC and others. Like the snow leopard, Tashi melds into the mountains, home to the Annapurna massif and the people who inhabit this area. He is a mountain himself-silent, enduring and has a mountain of an experience. He is a brilliant photographer. For days, we followed the prey-the blue sheep through the clouds, in snow, on the high meadows, climbing higher each day, spotting the guardian angel of the mountains on high ridges. On this day, we started climbing from 4000 M in the morning and finally reached the top in the evening completely spent and nowhere to climb. We had spotted this snow leopard from a thousand metres below and he was determined to track it down. It was five in the evening. Turnaround weighed on my mind as we were several hours away from the warmth of our lodge in Manang. It started snowing. The young and beautiful snow leopard was couched in the grass perfectly camouflaged, waiting to present itself to us. After all, she knew we were following her all through the day and let us catch a glimpse of her. If ever there was a holy grail for nature, this was it. At 5000 M, in the far west Annapurna, Tashi and I with a snow leopard. She got up, trudged through the snow, picked up a spine, looked at us one last time and vanished into the whiteout. We packed our gear and slipped into the darkness on our long walk down the mountain to Manang.

15/09/2023

Patagonia

07/04/2023

It is unusual for Manang to experience snowfall in March. A high-altitude rain shadow region, it has been receiving rainfall during the summers, says Tashi R. Ghale who was born and raised in Manang. The good thing is that the number of snow leopards have increased. We were wondering how this unusual snowfall in March may affect the biorhythm the birds and animals who inhabit Manang and the higher reaches. There's plenty of prey as well-blue sheep. Under the shadow of the the Annapurna Range and Gangapurna, Manang and its higher reaches are not just a haven for all those who want to do the Annapurna circuit trek, but a place to meditate and wait for the guardian of the high mountains to appear.

06/01/2023

Somewhere in the Swai area, In Central Serengeti,
There stands a lone Acaica tree, Overlooking the vast Savannah, Its evergreen leaves shining in the morning sun,
Their thorns adding to its sharp beauty, Its sculpted colossal trunk, Battling against the vagaries of the weather,
Stands tall, Come rain or shine, Or the heat of the endless plain, For it is the soul of the Savannah, Its crowning jewel, And lends the Serengeti its immortality. It is the leopard's high altar,
The Holy bough where she presents herself,
On a glorious morning, Somewhere in the Swai area, In Central Serengeti, There stands a lone Acacia.

11/12/2022

It was quiet and cold. Earlier that morning, she was spotted somewhere in the nallah above Mallik lake. We waited for her. There was no trace, no calls, nothing. Riddhi, T-124, is the daughter of Arrowhead, granddaughter of Krishna, great grand daughter of Sundari and great great grand daughter of the legendary Machli. Hemraj told me Riddhi was blessed with a cub sometime in late November. After waiting for a long time, we decided to survey the woods just above the nallah and there she was. Like a phantom walking through the Dhonk trees, her coat shimmering in the shafts of winter light that fell through the canopy. She gave one good look at me before crossing the track and gently walked into the forest. It was a quiet and cold morning in Ranthambore.

18/08/2022

On a gorgeous morning, the Topi pride lions were out on a stroll with their cubs in tow.

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