A stern warning
Masai Mara, Kenya
The matriarch of the herd raises herself to full height to warn us from getting too close. Not that we were in any doubt about her size and her strength. Elephants are over protective and their behaviour can be unpredictable
Size does matter!
Samburu national park , Kenya
The elephant’s curiosity was piqued by the sound of the camera shutter. Our hearts skipped a beat as he came dangerously close to us
A perfect fit
Masai Mara, Kenya
A baby elephant fits almost perfectly between the mother’s legs. Female elephants will keep the calves in the herd between their feet and in their midst to protect them.
Without my identity
Zimanga game reserve, South Africa
Perhaps the saddest and the most desperate reminder of how we are losing the war against organised poaching. All of South Africa's game reserves have cut the horns off their rhinos over the last 2 years to save them from being poached. While horn will grow back with time, meanwhile they lose their self-defence mechanism. So the long term implications are unclear - but when the Devil is in the room most choose the deep sea
Venomous Komodo Dragon
Komodo Islands, Indonesia
A Komodo dragon looks larger than life as it draws itself up on the beaches of Komodo island. Looking back, lying within a few feet of the Komodo dragons to get wide angle shots like these probably wasn’t the smartest thing I have done in my life
Larger than life
Komodo Islands, Indonesia
One possible theory for their large size is that they have been the apex predator (with little competition except by humans in recent times) on these islands for a long time and have therefore stayed relatively large while other megafauna from that area became extinct
Gateway to heaven
Jim Corbett National Park, India
The stage seemed to be set for God to appear in this beautiful sal forest at Jim Corbett national park on early winter morning when we wer doing the round to look for tigers
Santa’s land
Lapland, Finland
The pink hour during noon in Lapland is mesmerising because of the unique play of light and snow. Though Santa was out doing his rounds, his heavenly home more than made up for his absence during our christmas visit
A dance of lights in the sky
Lapland, Finland
It was a long cloudy evening and we had driven for a good 100 miles looking for clear skies. But the cloud and fog cover was very thick with hardly any wind. Suddenly, the fog and clouds disappeared for a few minutes and no one seemed more pleased than the aurora themselves.They danced across the sky with gay abandon.
INTO THE LAST WILDERNESS
