Ismail Shariff, Road no 9, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad (2026)

Name: Ismail Shariff
Address: Road no 9, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, 500034, IN
Telephone: +919885008850
Price range: £££

Ismail Shariff, an avid wildlife photographer, runs the only fine art printing studio in Hyderabad - which goes by the name IMPRIMA-to print. A student of The Hyderabad Public School, this Computer Science Engineer went on to do his Masters in Central European University Business School, Budapest. This is where he picked up his first camera - in the year 2002, and he has been shooting ever since.

His interest for bird photography was initiated when he first happened to visit ICRISAT with the Birdwatchers Society of Andhra Pradesh and a trip to Kanha National Park hooked him on to the Tigers. He has travelled extensively to most national parks of India in search of the big cats, with Tadoba being one of his most favourite hot-spot for Tigers and Kabini, for Leopards. His experiences from the wild are a treat to listen to and makes one want to visit one of those national parks and Tiger sanctuaries. His love for nature and the wildlife,which is obvious through his pictures, is not only a huge passion - he uses it as a media to create awareness in conserving nature. His images of the wild also show a different perspective to things. He tries to depict his subjects in a way that convey something of beauty and behaviour to the people he reaches with his photographs. Ismail was also assigned to shoot the Indian leg of Volvo Ocean Race 2008-2009 at Cochin. The Volvo Ocean Race is the world's pre-eminent round-the-world yacht race and one of the most coveted prizes in the sport, managed by headquarters of Volvo in Alicante, Spain. In the month of July this year, Ismail's 'Flight of the Tiger' image of a butterfly Common Tiger (Danaus genutia), was chosen as the cover photo for Canon Imaging Asia. He is slated to display his wildlife photography work in an international gallery in Budapest in June 2014. Ismail has an intense love for the photographic image, an eye for composition and artistic expression, and also an unwavering support of the medium of photography.

23/04/2026

It is International Pallas Cat Day. I would like to introduce you to someone who has been watching you this entire time.

Mongolia. Golden hour. A mother and her kittens, doing what Pallas Cats do best — being completely, professionally, almost offensively invisible. Swipe slowly. There are seven frames. The animal is in all of them. Good luck.

Otocolobus manul has been on this planet, largely unchanged, for over ten million years. Evolution looked at this animal and apparently decided it was finished. The size of a domestic cat. The expression of someone who has just received genuinely bad news. Its pupils contract into circles rather than vertical slits, like every other cat — nobody fully agrees on why, and it has no interest in the debate.

It is also, for the record, one of the world’s worst runners. Built low and wide for ambush, it accelerates magnificently for about eight metres, after which it would strongly prefer to crouch behind something and wait. Predator avoidance strategy: look so deeply unamused that nothing approaches. Documented success rate: ten million years.

What these frames show — across amber rock, open grassland, and dusk sky — is an animal that has mastered disappearance in every landscape it inhabits. Not one trick. A whole vocabulary of invisibility.

Fewer than 15,000 remain across Central Asia, Mongolia, and the Tibetan Plateau. Habitat loss, prey decline, illegal pet trade. Listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List — which somewhat undersells both the situation and the animal’s feelings about being assessed.

These frames are from Mongolia — the same day, the same family, the same golden hour. The light lasted forty minutes. We did not move. The kittens eventually decided we were not worth hiding from, which felt like an honour of the highest order.

Happy International Pallas Cat Day. May you always find your rock. May nothing find you.

Mongolia 2024 by

CartierForNature ConservationPhotography ManulMonday Manul HAHFIndia

18/02/2026

A snow leopard mother, resting on the edge of a mountain — a clean blue sky behind her.�Her belly is full. Her cubs are close.
Further down the slope lies a domestic cow.�And with it, the most delicate reality of these mountains.
For her, it is food.�For a herder, it is loss — sometimes a month’s income gone in a single night.
These are the moments that once ended in anger.�Today, thanks to the Forest Department and the work of local NGOs, compensation and conflict-mitigation have brought many retaliatory killings down to almost zero. It isn’t perfect — delays still happen — but the change is real, and it matters.
�And for those planning a snow leopard expedition:�the softness you see here, even in snow, is heat haze. From late morning to early evening, rising warmth distorts the air — and it steals sharpness from even the best equipment.
�Side note: I was handed an Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II with the 150–400mm f/4.5 PRO (TC 1.25x).�The reach-to-weight ratio is remarkable — and with tennis elbow for the past few years, it was the first time I could carry this kind of reach for kilometres without paying for it later.

22/01/2026

A beautiful Snow Leopard Cub from yesterday, who with its sibling was snoozing all day, while the mother was protecting a kill from a Black Wolf, a Red Fox and too many vultures.
I personally loved the background, and the way this Cub would keep peeking out.

01/09/2025

These Snow Leopard cubs are just adorable little kittens, aren’t they? We’re thrilled to invite you to join us on an incredible journey to witness these magnificent creatures in their natural habitat, in the breathtaking landscapes of Spiti and Ladakh. Mark your calendars for December 2025, as this is the start of our life-changing experience. Don’t miss out on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness one of the rarest wild cats in the world. 
Contact us today to become a part of this unforgettable adventure!

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Road No 9, Banjara Hills
Hyderabad
500034

Telephone

+919885008850

Website

http://www.ismailshariff.com/

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