Here are the winners and honorable mentions of The 2021 Audubon Photography Awards. Photography, at its best, can heighten our awareness, allowing us to see the world more clearly. The same could be said about birding. And when we combine the two, magical things happen. Focusing our attention on the…
The world’s most prestigious bird photography competition has today released a selection of finalists in the running to win the 2021 competition. More than 22,000 images were entered into the Bird Photographer of the Year 2021 competition. Competing for the £5,000 cash prize and prestigious title, photographers from 73 different…
A rare American wood duck has been spotted at Bally, Howrah in West Bengal state of India for the first time. Colorful male duck at a water-body around 10 days ago was seen in a town around 25 kilometres from kolkata. Such ducks never have been spotted in India before.…
Arindam Saha working in IBM as a senior IT consultant. Photography is his chronic addiction. Arindam’s favorite subjects are various aspects of mother nature such as birds and insects. His love for nature from his childhood days probably made him appreciate the beauty of nature more than anything else through…
Just before the Corona clenches it’s claws here in India, I, along with my three friends have a chance to visit Borong, a romantic, tranquil, and secluded hamlet in the lap of Himalaya in South of Sikkim here in India. Borong is situated within the lower part of Maenam Wildlife…
Being an avid traveler, wildlife & birding enthusiast, the global lockdown has been hindering us from pulling out our photography gear. Possessing the inquisitiveness throughout the year and facing a sudden hard stop to the hobby or profession that triggers creativity doesn’t make things easier. Having few perks like a…
The prestigious Bird Photographer of the Year (BPOTY) announced the shortlist photographs of the 2020 BPOTY competition. This is the fifth year of this competition. There are five categories like Birds in the Environment, Birds in Flight, Bird Behaviour, Best Portrait, and Garden and Urban Birds. There are 15,000 images…
The winners of Bird Photographer of the Year (BPOTY) 2019 has just announced and they are just mindblowing. BPOTY competition held annually since 2016, they have completed 4 years. Here in this post, we are presenting winners and honorable mentions of 2019. The winning entry is a flamboyant image of…
Last year I joined my local photography club. The club holds regular competitions and I was amazed by the quality of the bird and natural history photographs. I’ve never been much of a natural history photographer. So it’s not surprising that my own photographs did very poorly in competitions. In…
I’ve always been fond of birds, but picking up photography gave this passion a complete new dimension. Now I’m planning my trips for bird photography, trying to find places where I can not only see the birds but also create spectacular images. I come from France but I fell in…
Scott Keys is a Avian Photographer from Lehigh Valley, PA. In his words “A great picture shows the beauty of its subject and environment. It also provokes a thought emotion or connection. If a viewer can inspire a thought or emotion, I think it’s powerful.” Thanks Scott Keys, for accepting…
Here are the best and winning photos of Bird Photographer Of The Year 2017. There were flood of entries received around the globe for this competition. They have just announced the winning photos and honorable mentions in different categories. A selection of the winning and short-listed entries are also chosen…
Photographer Alan McFadyen spent 6 years to get this perfect shot of Kingfisher. From Alan words: “The photo I was going for of the perfect dive, flawlessly straight, with no splash required not only me to be in the right place and get a very lucky shot but also for the…
A fantastic photographer from Pakistan, Tahir Abbas shows us how beautiful and breathtaking nature can be with his portfolio. Perfect photographs of birds, crisp and clear with artistic charisma brings a lot of quality and respect to this portfolio. Tahir does say that patience and passion are the most important things…
Bird Photography: 15 Incredible Tips for Beginners eBook is written by well-known nature photographer, Prathap who is the owner of Nature Photography Simplified blog. Prathap’s knowledge on bird photography is commendable, but what sets him apart is his way of writing. He distills all the complex concepts of bird photography…
It took me several months to a year to figure out how only few Photographers could pull out some of the most beautiful photographs of the Birds. The interesting and more intriguing fact was that they did it consistently! How did they do it? You might have been following some…