Radha Rangarajan: A Mangrove Snapper caught by local fishermen after setting up a line net all night; the net was a little over a kilometre long. The net is usually laid across the point where River Kali meets the Arabian Sea, with mangroves along the edge of the land. A f
Radha Rangarajan: I am told that one must not anthropomorphise, but I found it impossible to do that here. The striking features will continue to stay with me for a while. While photographing some lovely fisherwomen on the highway near Nagapattinam town, we reached the en
Radha Rangarajan: For a few years now, a soft whistle that rings all through the night in Agumbe had left me wondering about the source. A naturalist friend had told me that it's a large brown katydid that called like that. Last month, when I was in Wayanad, I spotted this
Radha Rangarajan: Weevils are herbivorous beetles. There could be over 60,000 species of weevils, and some are even considered as agricultural pests. I was walking around the garden at Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary, photographing ferns, when I saw this little one on a fern
Radha Rangarajan: Since the time I first saw a Malabar Gliding Frog I've had many interesting run-ins with the species. There was one that turned up in the room, one that was in a grocery bag, and one that sat snuggled up right in front of me and I didn't notice, and the o
Radha Rangarajan: Walking around a plant sanctuary, and at every step I am amazed by the beauty, purpose and functionality of the things I see - leaves, stems, moss, ferns, flowers, seeds, fronds, veins.. Phew! This gorgeous Staghorn tree fern belongs to the genus Platyce
Radha Rangarajan: Dhikala Scape
Radha Rangarajan: Lion-tailed Macaque
Radha Rangarajan: Stream Glory Damselfly
Radha Rangarajan: Blackbucks
Radha Rangarajan: Stag March
Radha Rangarajan: Common Stonechat (Saxicola torquatus)
Radha Rangarajan: Steppe Eagle (Aquila nipalensis)
Radha Rangarajan: Pallid Harrier (Circus macrourus)
Radha Rangarajan: Eastern Imperial Eagle (Aquila heliaca)
Radha Rangarajan: Brahmagiri Range
Radha Rangarajan: Robberfly
Radha Rangarajan: Daybreak in Winter
Radha Rangarajan: Blue-eyed Bush Frog
Radha Rangarajan: Flame of the Forest
Radha Rangarajan: Red Silk Cotton
Radha Rangarajan: Indian Coral Tree
Radha Rangarajan: Little Cormorant
Radha Rangarajan: Great Cormorant