Blog - Wildlife Photography India

Manas NP, Assam. Tough but rewarding.

05/05/2023 Martin Assam, Birding, Birds, Dhole, India, Manas NP, Assam, One horned Rhino, One-horned Rhino, Photography, Tea plantations, Tea Pluckers in Assam, Wildlife

Amazingly, the weather held for the whole day and our afternoon drive also enjoyed decent weather. The sky was blue and the air was wonderfully clear.
I would have loved to go back and sit near the Broadbill nests but I did not have the only vote and my travelling companions wanted to get out of the jungle onto the plains where they could see some of the larger mammals.

Kaziranga NP, Assam’s One-horned Rhino sanctuary

24/04/2023 Martin Assam, Birding, Birds, India, Kaziranga, One horned Rhino, One-horned Rhino, Photography, Wildlife

Kaziranga is a lovely park to visit with plenty of water bodies and lots of open plains making it easy to see the wildlife.
In fact, I saw more mammals on my first drive in Kaziranga than I’d seen in a week at Tadoba, and a large percentage of them were One-horned Rhinos. The park has almost 2,700 rhinos, almost twice as many rhinos as Swamp Deer (1,800) Elephants were plentiful too, as were the Water Buffalo.

Assam, India’s tea country

19/04/2023 Martin Assam, Banyan Grove, Hoolongapar Gibbon sanctuary, India, Jorhat, Photography, Tea plantations, Tea Pluckers in Assam

With tea estates on both sides of the road it was immediately clear that we were in tea country.
For our stay we had chosen a property surrounded by tea plantations called Banyan Grove. In fact Banyan Grove was formerly the residence of the Deputy Plantation Manager for the Gatoonga Tea Estate.
Banyan Grove is one of a small collection of properties owned/operated by Heritage Northeast ( https://www.heritagetourismindia.com/ ). It is a wonderful old building surrounded by lawns, although the original Banyan tree that gave it its name has long since died.

Sundarbans

17/04/2023 Martin Bay of Bengal, Birding, Birds, India, Kingfishers, Kolkata, Photography, Sundarban, Sundarbans, Tiger, West Bengal, Wildlife

The Sundarbans is an area that has long appealed to me and finally I was getting the chance to visit. Touted as the National Park with the highest number of tigers in India it is also listed among India’ top birding locations, so I had high hopes. The drive from Kolkata to Godkhali where we’d be boarding a boat to[…]

Walking around Kolkata; Mallick Ghat and Kumortuli

13/04/2023 Martin India, Indian street food, Kolkata, Kumortuli, Kumortuli Potters village, Mallick Ghat, Mallick Ghat flower market, Photography, Uncategorised

I’m not a big fan of cities, but as almost every visit to India requires spending at least 1 night in the city where the international flight arrives. Usually time in cities is kept to an absolute minimum and we head straight out in search of wildlife but, as this was my first visit to Kolkata, I thought it might be fun to stay a couple of days and have a look around.

Choosing the right lenses for your safari. Updated

16/03/2023 Martin Birding, Birds, Camera gear, India, Kaziranga, Photo Tips, Photography, Red Panda, Tiger, Uncategorised, Wildlife

Probably one of the most frequent questions we get asked by clients is “What lenses should I take on safari?”
This question is not limited to first timers either; because the equipment you need to take depends very much on where you are going and what the conditions will be like. Photographing rhinos on the plains of Kaziranga NP requires a different approach to photographing sloth bears in the forest at dusk, and photographing birds is very different to photographing elephants.
So how do you make the right selection?

Birding in Goa

11/01/2023 Martin Birding, Birds

I’ve always considered photographing birds to be a fairly leisurely pursuit. Certainly, for me anyway, it usually involves strolling about the countryside armed with a camera to see what little beauties I can capture.I’m not a ‘twitcher’, not even a proper ‘birder’ really, just a photographer who finds birds a fascinating and challenging subject.Over the past few years, however, my[…]

Sundarbans to Singalila

25/03/2020 Martin Birding, Birds, India, One horned Rhino, Photography, Red Panda, Singalila, Sundarbans, Tiger, Uncategorised, Wildlife

Sunderbans Biosphere Reserve, Manas National Park, Gorumara National Park, Singalila National Park, Glenburn Tea Estate India has 50 Tiger reserves, governed by Project Tiger which is, in turn, administrated by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and 104 National Parks. Some of these reserves and National Parks are World renowned; places like Kanha, Ranthambhore and Corbett. Unsurprisingly, these famous reserves[…]

Foothills of the Himalaya

20/03/2020 Martin Birding, Birds, Corbett, India, Leopard, Photography, Tiger, Uncategorised, Vanghat, Wildlife

This is not the happiest of times; thanks to Covid-19 we’re grounded and all short term travel plans have had to be cancelled.Worse still, just about the only calls we’re getting from clients are to rearrange (or even cancel) trips that are already booked, not to book new ones. Of course we understand the situation and we’re doing all we[…]

Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve

19/12/2019 Martin Photography, Rajasthan, Ranthambhore, Tiger, Uncategorised, Wildlife

Ranthambore National Park is one of the biggest and most renowned national parks in Northern India, covering 282 km². Ranthambhore was established as the Sawai Madhopur Game Sanctuary in 1955 by the Government of India and was declared one of the Project Tiger reserves in 1973. Ranthambhore became a national park on 1 November 1980. In 1984, the adjacent forests were declared the Sawai Man Singh Sanctuary and Keladevi[…]