Honorable Mention
Now you See Me ?
DESCRIPTION
One such epic encounter which portrayed the best visualiser in me, One such frame which made me to witness & experience the next level observer in me, Such a crazy second of my entire wildlife journey was this priceless encounter with the bold & stealth predator male.Back in late 2016, It was late noon when this had happened, Me along with my team where in hunt of big cats (photographing), probably one adult tiger who was the major charm of that particular zone in bandipur national Reserve, Karnataka . We approached cut off time to safari sessions and was heading back to base. On our way at the end point of shooting box junction, we decided to wait in and spend for the remaining 10 minutes which we had.
The ambience was so quiet, and we where least expecting for something unusual to happen, No alarm calls, no bird chirps as well. Sudden & slight shakes with in the bushes behind us and bang, there he was moving neat and slow like an apex predator.
As soon as we spotted this handsome just 20 meters away from our jeep, that major yet expressive pause and stare was all that made my day, in fact not just my day , it definitely is one such encounter which i would always cherish with in the wild.
This bold guy was completely in stealth mode that he has been watching us for the past 10-15 mins as we kept on taking slow turns. One has to understand how camouflaged they get when required. Spotting the glow in those eyes was a major task and achieving focus via bushed being a disaster when your heart rates are beating pretty much abnormally. Wildlife has lots of opportunities and you definitely need to wait in.
AUTHOR
My self Praveen Premkumar, I hove from Kerala, India. Guruvayur being my native, I completed my schooling at M.E.S Indian School, Doha Qatar, (Middle East). later on decided to pick up multimedia & animation as my main field because I was friendlier towards creativity and finally shifted on to Bangalore. Currently completed BSc In Multimedia at Wiztoonz Academy of Media & Design, Jp Nagar, Bangalore.Well photography is my platform and so is cinematography. I had this taste towards photography since teenage. Probably 8th standard and I used to click around roaming with the basic point and shoot film rolled camera. Basically it’s all about my view towards life. How I see a frame and how I wish to freeze it over time and pack it to my collection. The images I click is what I see through my 3rd eye (that’s a common term all use, In fact what I would say is, It’s my way of relating the emotions in subjective life with the once inside my head). There may be variety of perspective for once thought against a subject he/she views, I wish to capture that moment of act which I think is worth a share to the world such that it does convey something to someone.
I love visualising the actions and reactions around me. If I were to analyse what this motherly earth provided us with, then I would come up with a conclusion that it’s just what we see, what we feel and touch. Something you see is what you believe unless you’re corrected with true reasons. But the moment you believe your eyes that’s where you succeed with the available thoughts and assumptions. It may or may not be true, but there’s a fact behind everything you convey your senses with & for.