Nikkor 200-500 VR/TC 14 III @700mm, f8, ISO 1000, Nikon Z 6 Noon; troop of capped langurs feeding in the heart of the Manas jungle Assam
Nikkor 24-70/2.8 S @50mm, f3.5, Nikon Z 6 The morning light cuts through the moist air (haze); The cluster of bare trunks without the tops in the middle of the jungle (the patch in the centre) on which https://tinyurl.com/betelLeaf is grown. Betelnut palms in the foreground. The natural balance of the surrounding forest protects smaller scale plantations like these. A luxury most farmers can only be dreaming of. It signifies the role of the wider environment immediate to the monocultures (all over the world). Their livelihoods are facing extremes and unpredictability so when helping them to gain from a revival of parts that became stagnant and anachronic here, it needs to be systemic, unique to India, with the cultures and values at heart. Meghalaya
Nikkor 200-500 VR @200mm, f5.6, ISO 1400, Nikon Z 6 I am living here too Brought back from the brink Brahmaputra floodplain at dawn
