Wild Baby Buffy Fish Owl Landed on Grass Patch | Rescued by ACRES| Hampstead Wetlands Park Singapore.
Photographing Birds In Gujarat | Kutch District |India
Photographing birds in Gujarat | Kutch District| India Photographing birds in Gujarat, Kutch district in India, holds a very unique landscape for wildlife and birding. My interest in Gujarat started after reading the documented journeys made by the late Salim Ali and Datuk Loke Wan Tho back in 1943 to 1944 in the book, “Loke Wan... Continue Reading →
Photographing Birds with Your Ears
Photographing Birds with Your Ears It is already extremely challenging to look for an elusive bird in the rainforest in daytime, let alone searching for nocturnal bird at night. This is where ‘photographing birds with your ears’ comes into play. Borneo has beautiful luscious green rainforest with rustling foliage by day and totally pitched dark... Continue Reading →
Masked Finfoot| Early sighting in 1992| Malaysia
Masked Finfoot | Early sighting in 1992|Malaysia Masked Finfoot | Early sighting in 1992 | Malaysia In the early 90's, not much was known about the Masked Finfoot (heliopais personata), an aquatic bird, except for its distribution in eastern Indian subcontinent, Indochina and Malaysia. There were a few reports of its early sighting in Taman Negara,... Continue Reading →
Photographing spectacular regional endemics birds in southern Vietnam | Dalat and Cat Tien
Bar-bellied Pitta. Regional endemic bird in southern Vietnam.
7 Endemic Birds of Vietnam in Dalat
7 Endemic Birds of Vietnam in Dalat I was fascinated by the number of endemic birds in Vietnam in the main land as compared with the neighbouring southeast Asian countries like Laos, Cambodia and Thailand. Normally islands like Philippines or Borneo bring about habitat isolation with more endemism due to geographical isolation by the sea.... Continue Reading →
4D3N Bird Photography Trip to Ganeshgudi, Karnataka, Western Ghats India.
4D3N Bird Photography Trip to Ganeshgudi, Karnataka, Western Ghats India.
Asian Emerald Cuckoo – Bird watching in Bangkok Thailand.
Asian Emerald Cuckoos in Bangkok. Bird watching in Thailand.
Birding Khao Yai National Park Thailand
Birding Khao Yai National Park Thailand It was 43 ° C in Bangkok under the direct sun and 38 °C under the shade. Nomatter how you look at it, it was very HOT. It was time to escape the heat to the cooler 20 degree mountain air, Khao Yai National Park for birding. The last time I stepped... Continue Reading →
Tigers of India, Asian Geographic Magazine
Tigers of India. Our story on the tigers of India is published in the current isuue of Asian Geographic Magazine ( No 122 Issue 6/2016). The past 13 years have taken us on several journeys through many parts of India. The rich biodiversity of nature in India has led us to return again and again begging... Continue Reading →
Whistling-Thrushes in Borneo, India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Sumatra & Thailand| Birding in Asia
Whistling-Thrushes in Borneo, India, Malaysia, Thailand & Sri Lanka| Birding in Asia
Landscape Photography Iceland|HDR
Landscape Photography Iceland|HDR
The awakening of the Sunda Scops Owl at the Singapore Botanical Gardens|UNESCO World Heritage Site
The awakening of the Sunda Scops Owl at the Singapore Botanical Gardens|UNESCO World Heritage Site Observing the Sunda Scops Owl at the Singapore Botanic Gardens (UNESCO World Heritage Site) was a learning experience for me since it had a very ‘narrow shooting opportunity’ before the daylight fades. It is also a test of the capability of... Continue Reading →
Photo Travel Asia| Early morning walk from the Singapore Merlion
Photo Travel Asia | Early morning walk from the Singapore Merlion. Have you done anything different out of the daily routine recently? How many sun rise do you see in a year? I went to see the sunrise at the Merlion in Singapore. The Singapore Merlion was designed by Fraser Brunner for Singapore Tourism in 1964.... Continue Reading →
Plant and landscape photography at Singapore Gardens by the Bay
Plant and landscape photography at Singapore Gardens by the Bay The two domes are two great places to take plant and landscape photography at Singapore Gardens by the Bay. Equipped with just 1 camera and 2 lenses ( 50 mm f/1.8 II and 17-70 mm), I spent the morning photographing in the Flower dome and Cloud... Continue Reading →