This guy might be a few weeks old but he is still confident enough to climb and run around the forest on his own.
Sometimes you sit and wait for ages and your model doesn't pose for you. I was ready to give up just before this guy turned around and finally allowed me get a good image.
The black-faced langur is very common in India. I went on a tiger safari but came back with way more photos of monkeys than of the big cats. These guys are especially photogenic in the last of the evening light when they gather in family groups to socialise.
I am not a fan of anthropomorising in general but when it comes to monkeys it is so easy to see human emotions and feelings in them.
Tigers hide really well in the long grasses of India. It is quite difficult to find them when on safari. Their prey is obviously way more numerous and so a lot easier to find.
Sambar Deer are so much easier to find that the tigers that prey on them. While the goal of a tiger safari might be to see the big cat, there is a lot of excitement in finding one of its prey animals. It reminds you that there could be a tiger waiting in the undergrowth ready to pounce.
Leopards are probably the most difficult to see of the big cats. They hide and camouflage themselves so well. However given the warning calls of the monkeys and deer we were led to this beautiful specimen hiding carefully in the bush.
The colours and beauty of the bee-eaters always blows me away. I just wish they were more common in Europe so I could capture them all year round.
It is amazing where you will find wildlife sometimes. In the bare stone fort of Gwalior I came across this female Indian robin. I would have thought there wasn't much there for her but there was quite a lot of other birds living among the sterile looking stone walls. Obviously there was more to feed on than what was obviously visible to my eye.
The rose ringed parakeet is famous for being wild in London. In India though it is relatively common. Getting a bird in flight is still difficult, despite the numbers.
