The Journal
A photo essay for every trip — what the morning smelled like, what we waited for, what we found, and what we missed. Each piece ends with a way to design the same journey for yourself.
A long, slow week in the himalayan oak forest above the seven lakes — rubythroats, forktails, and a koklass pheasant that arrived like a rumour.
Spring leaves unrolling, ultramarine flycatchers passing through, and three patient evenings with a brown wood owl.
A short return to Sattal at midwinter — a Brown Wood Owl, a Greater Flameback at golden hour, and the discipline of going home with five photographs you actually love.
An entire morning at one waterhole, watching the forest queue up for a drink. A different way of seeing.
Keoladeo just after the New Year — a Eurasian Wryneck holding court, sunbirds at the bottlebrush, and a kingfisher silhouetted against a winter sun.
Painted storks lifting off the marsh in slow rotations of pink and black, an Oriental Darter holding a fish like a question, and a Crested Serpent Eagle on a watch-tree.
Late-season Bharatpur — the imperial eagles still in the marsh, sarus cranes feeding in flooded paddy, and a python the size of a fire hose draped across a winter path.
Tigress T-111 walks the same sandstone path her grandmother walked. A morning with a queen, and an afternoon with her cubs.
A second visit, a hotter month, a different zone. New cubs, an old fort, the same patient way of waiting for a tiger to choose you.
A leopard reserve inside Jaipur city limits, drives through wet rocky scrub, and a Shikra in mid-flight against monsoon cloud.
Sal forest, barasingha herds, and an unbelievable hour with one of the world's smallest wild cats.
A floodplain in the cold dry season — rhinos in elephant grass, fish eagles, and the slow turn of a great river.
A short morning at a small wetland an hour from Delhi — Red Avadavats and Scaly-breasted Munias on bare reedstalks against a pale winter sky.
A loose collection — barbets, a barn owl in an old stable, a hoopoe on a Delhi lawn, an Indian Vulture against thunderclouds.
