Nikkor 24-70/2.8 S @28mm, f2.8, ISO 100 (+1/3 EV), Nikon Z 6 30 min. before sunset; a dragonfly hovering above a canoe. Brahmaputra tributary confluence
Nikkor 200-500 VR/TC 14 III @450mm, f8, ISO 280, Nikon Z 6; Morning; female western hoolock gibbon leaping in the canopy. Assam This desperately protected alluvial plain evergreen forest symbolises a trend. Along with Bengal slow loris, other primates, several cats including leopard and elephants, with which we had a peculiar encounter, the gibbon is trapped in this desperately protected jewel. There are two options for these isolated islands of nature left. They both involve us. To slowly degenerate into a caricature of nature, or reconnect with its basal network (the foothills of the Patkai range here) and remain part of our world.
Nikkor 200-500 VR/TC 14 III @700mm, f8, ISO 2200, Nikon Z 6; Slight crop (APS-H at the max); heavy mist shortly after daybreak; a magical encounter with one of the mangrove specific species. Odisha
