Uttarakhand

aerial · village

Ransi village in aerial view, en route Madhyamaheshwar Panch Kedar trek in Uttarakhand, as seen aerially, from the air, in this aerial view.

snow · hills

With heavy summer melt waters below, a Snow bridge exists in the Sunderdhunga valley covered in monsoon-time continuing winter snowpack, as our team heads towards Maiktoli peak in Uttarakhand.

temple · festival

Garhwali women with giant nose ring or nath initiate the temple opening for the summer season of 2025. Shri Madmaheshwar temple summer opening and marti migration: Panch Kedar Uttarakhand 28 May 2025.

farmland · village

Farm life in India? Aerial view of wheat fields, farm house and rural pond in Uttarakhand, India, as seen aerially, in this aerial view, from the air.

forest · hills

Enjoying Oak blossoms and eating Berberis ripe berries is this Maroon Oriole, a lovely songster from the middle Himalaya.

flowers · hills

Bearded Iris bruno, a German rhizomatic grows in spring time warmth of wildfilmsindia botanical garden Bearded Iris Bruno and Iris Alba flowers in the western Himalayas of Uttarakhand.

village · bazaar

Rural Himalayan market in Devidhura town of Champawat, where villagers come to stock up from the wild and remote regions of Kumaon in Uttarakhand. Excited villagers at a local village festive haat market.

river · monsoon

Sarayu river all monsoon swollen in Uttarakhand as seen in Champawat, coming down from near Nanda Kot peak in Kumaon.

hills

Fold rocks of the Himalaya as clearly seen in cross-section of Pre-Cambrian Uttarakhand Tal Permain formation. See the way the rock has been folded back during the formation of the Himalaya due to plate tectonics and orogeny.

forest · birds

A nesting home made of moss, and precariously perched on the bark of an oak tree's trunk, this Grey headed Canary Flycatcher makes frequent sorties to feed its chicks above the Bindal-Rispana stream at the wildfilmsindia reserve in Uttarakh…

snow · forest

Even as Landour town shivers in winter snow and cold, a Langur family basks in winter sun at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet protected forests, in Uttarakhand. They gambol on a deodar tree in the bright winter sun.

hills · highway

Collecting gobar ki khaad or cow manure and getting fertile soil off a mountain and down a metal chute, at nearby Chamasari and Motidhar villages, for gardening at wildfilmsindia orchards in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

forest · hills

Cicada in yellow: not so perfect camouflage for this loud insect whose call reverberates through mountain forests. Perfect camouflage for a Cicada at wildfilmsindia oak forest in Uttarakhand: September 2023.

industry · river

A Khachar or Donkey hybrid being used for hard labour ad moving large quantities of sand in Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand: Do we abuse pack animals? Se sand mining at work, using khachers or mules to ferry the sand.

snow · hills

Summer rain clouds race in over the Garhwal Himalaya, as seen in time lapse, around Uttarakashi, in the higher hills around Dodital.

forest · birds

It's red jaunty crest aflame and bouncing back and forth as the bird pecks at the trunk, this Himalayan Pied Woodpecker or Katphora pecks away at mossy trunk of Oak tre at wildfilmsindia wildlife reserve in Uttarakhand.

river

The waters of the Jumna nadi run clean in the mountains, before we foul them in the plains. By and large a clean clear glacial torrent, the Yamuna has green-blue waters, while the Aglar is a non-glacial stream and brings in mud, silt, soil…

forest

A Pheasant male pecks at undergrowth for buds, shoots and bugs: Kaleej margha at wildfilmsindia sanctuary in Uttarakhand. The female is a darker brown and accompanies the male in the peony fields, with walnut trees above, for shade.

hills · flowers

Anemone in a deep pink, Arum Lilies by the thousands, daffodils of many kinds, with Thrushes calling in our forested bowl. Peoniflorum tulips start to bloom in spring at the Pari Tibba botanical gardens of wildfilmsindia in Uttarakhand.

hills · flowers

Paeonia emodi, a species of wild Peony that is endemic to the upper Himalaya, grows at the wildfilmsindia botanical gardens in Uttarakhand.

forest · hills

Climate change has truly started to bite. Large swathes of pristine Himalayan forests were destroyed in the spring of 2021, due to inordinate dryness, lack of rain and humidity, and the carelessness of tourists and villages wherein someone…

snow · hills

Views of the Bandarpunch glacier, Hanuman valley, and birch forest from the Chhaiyan Gad camp in the Garhwal Himalaya.

river · livestock

Aerially follow an autumn trekking path over the high meadows of the Garhwal Himalaya over the grasslands and brown-green-yellow buggyals as they turn to winter, with the mists hovering over the ridges and lovely clear weather all around.