Birding in uttarakhand : First time in wildlife photographers shoes
Easter holiday was approaching and i didn't want to miss this opportunity of staying away from hot summer city life for a while , hush hush trip to uttarakhand was planned and i was ready to accompany Sudhir Sawant ( Sudhir Sir as we call him) for one of his birding trips. Sudhir Sir is professional wildlife photographer / documentary maker and owner of Jungle Trails,pune. We have been doing lot of small trips with him around pune , this was first opportunity for me to do a dedicated bird photography tour. As birding was the only intention , I had to upgrade my photography kit, my trusted 55-300mm would not be of much use here hence i decided to rent out Nikkor 200-500 from Primes and Zooms , I now at least had proper wildlife photographers shoes to walk with. This was the first time i was doing a dedicated bird photography attempt , I have love photographing animals with whatever limited gear i have but that has never been a primary focus until now so as expected i committed