The call of the wild
The Hindu
Wildlife photography requires an understanding of animal behaviour apart from photographic skills.
Wildlife photography is usually regarded as one of the most difficult and rewarding genres due to the dynamic nature of the subject. It is based on chance and every brilliant shot has a thousand squandered possibilities behind it. These wildlife photographers from India use their work to talk about wildlife conservation and also offer tips online to budding photographers. “My love for Nature got me hooked to the camera,” says Jayanth, who was an IT professional before becoming a full-time wildlife photographer. He is best known for fusing natural and fine art elements and portraying them from unique perspectives. His international experience ranges from Southeast Asia to Brazil, Canada to Eastern Africa, and Norway to East Russia. He partnered with Amazon India to launch an online photography club, Shutterbug, and recently launched ‘Toehold Academy’, app through which he takes online classes.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.