Ask me what kind of wildlife photographer I am and I will probably answer with pace before gear. I like the unhurried frame, an animal with some room around it, a bird I waited out instead of chasing. The pictures I end up keeping are almost always the ones where nothing had to be forced.
This is not the biography; the About page already does that. Think of it more as a working note on the photographer I am still trying to become. The portfolio runs across birds, mammals, habitats and a fair amount of driving in between, but if there is a single thread, it is patience. Get there early, keep your distance, and do not make the animal pay for your photograph.
I would rather a photograph look observed than arranged. In practice that means a great deal of waiting, through bad angles, flat midday light, and long stretches where nothing moves and you start to doubt the whole morning. The frame has to arrive on the animal's clock. The work is in not forcing it onto mine.
The site covers bird photography, wildlife portraits, an endangered-species collection, and trip reports written up from the field. I want each photograph to stand on its own. I also think of the whole thing as a slow record: the places I keep returning to, the species I have finally learned to tell apart, the trips that did not go to plan.
Instagram is built for speed, and wildlife mostly happens at the other pace. This site is the slower home for the work. A photograph here can carry its species name, the place it was taken, a few lines about what was going on around it, and a link to the others from the same trip. On a feed, the same frame is gone in a thumb-flick.
I am not trying to make everything look rare or fierce. A lot of the frames I am proudest of are the quiet ones. A tiger mostly lost in shade, a herd buried in its own dust, a common bird on a reed that happened to be sitting just right. Drama is easy to chase, and usually the less interesting choice.
If you are new here, it depends on what you came for. Browse the galleries if you are after the species, or the trip reports if you would rather have the stories behind them. And if you only have a few minutes, spend them in the endangered collection. Those are the ones I most want people to slow down and actually look at.
Sarus Crane
Nalsarovar
African Elephant
Masai Mara, Kenya
Giraffe
Masai Mara, Kenya
African Elephant
Masai Mara, Kenya
Topi
Masai Mara, Kenya
African Elephant
Masai Mara, Kenya
African Elephant
Masai Mara, Kenya
Bengal Tiger
Tadoba, India
Northern Lapwing
Gajoldoba
Rufous-bellied Niltava
Tiger hills, Darjeeling
Common Hill-partridge
Tiger hills, Darjeeling
Red-crested Pochard
Gajoldoba
