2014 in twenty pictures

The year 2014 can be summed up for me in twenty pictures. Each one of thees pictures represents a photography trip that I did or a series of safaris that I did in Ranthambhore national park, where we live. Hope 2015 turns out as good for me.

Machali – Ranthambhore’s iconic tigress – is it close to the end of the road for her.

It looks like its close to the end of the road for Ranthambhore National Park’s iconic tigress T 16 or Machali. There are many tales about her and some of them are true. She was born in the monsoon months of 1997, one of the three sisters, whose mother was known as Machali. When Colin…

Search for a decent picture of the Snow Leopard

I like to photograph wild animals in their natural habitat and the Snow Leopard was very high on my wish list. I have seen them on two different trip – first time a long ago in Spiti valley and then more recently in 2011 in Hemis national park. On both the trips, I saw more…

Identifying tigers of the tourism zone of Ranthambore tiger reserve

Since the Ranthambhore tiger reserve reopened for visitors on 1st October 2013, according to us there have been sightings of 25 different adults / sub-adult tigers and four or five (not sure again) small cubs in the entire tourism zone. Not bad at all. Two of thees adults are in the recently opened zone 10. The…

From a camera owner to a photographer – my time in Ranthambhore

My name is Aditya Singh and my close friends call me Dicky. I have had two contrasting lives till now and the change took place around 1997. Before that I was a regular guy whose father was in the army. We were brought up with a strong dose of hostel life and ended up being…

Too close for comfort

“Gemunu” is a wild tusker was born in 1991, part of an elephant herd based in Yala national park of Sri Lanka. Though his mother was vary of vehicles and visitors to the park, Gemunu was extremely tolerant of them. Male elephants have to leave the herd once they grow up and after Gemunu left…

Tanzania Feb-March 2012

We flew into Killimanjaro airport at the base of Mount Killimanjaro and after grabbing a quick lunch in Arusha, we drove out to Tarangire national park in pouring rain. For a month there had been no rains in this area and we had heard the wildebeests migration is stuck in Central Serengeti. They had yet…

Five weeks in Masai Mara National Reserve – Week 5

During the fifth week in Masai Mara our sightings of the three lion prides with small cubs were great as by now we could find them almost anytime we wanted to. A few of my close friend were part of this group and we had a party every night, which was long overdue. Four weeks…

Five weeks in Masai Mara National Reserve – Week 3

At the end of the second week we bid goodbye to Kahini, Shivang and all their friends and crossed the Mara River to go towards Talek River. This week we had a group of close friends and family who were booked in Sunworld Safari’s amazing camp (Mara Bush Camp). This place is located in the…

Five weeks in Masai Mara National Reserve – Week 2

Week 2 The weekends in Masai Mara were “rest days” for us. One of our groups would leave on the Saturday and the next one would come to the camp either on Sunday evening or on Monday evening. They were great days as we had the camp all to ourselves. On Saturday mornings I would…

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2014 in twenty pictures

Machali – Ranthambhore’s iconic tigress – is it close to the end of the road for her.

Search for a decent picture of the Snow Leopard

Identifying tigers of the tourism zone of Ranthambore tiger reserve

From a camera owner to a photographer – my time in Ranthambhore

Too close for comfort

Tanzania Feb-March 2012

Five weeks in Masai Mara National Reserve – Week 5

Five weeks in Masai Mara National Reserve – Week 3

Five weeks in Masai Mara National Reserve – Week 2