Photographing animals in the wild requires a lot of patience and a keen understanding of animal behavior. Moments come and go in a split second: if you're not prepared, the chance of a lifetime is gone. Last year I entered the Wildlife Vets International Stories of Survival photo competition - and my image of a leopard colliding with a motorbike was the overall winner. I was subsequently presented with a Nikon Z 611 and a Z 24-70mm f/4 S, and was eager to test out the mirrorless camera's capabilities. It has accompanied me across India, where I photographed elephants, birds, and tigers...
Park life
My image of a tiger in a tree [1] was taken in January 2022. We were in the Jim Corbett National Park, on the foothills of the Himalayas. It was already a cold afternoon, but things got worse when it started to rain. The temperature was around five or six degrees Celsius, but it seemed more like zero!
This story is from the July 2022 edition of N-Photo: the Nikon magazine.
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