“monsoon”

village · hills

Driving through Meghalaya offers a striking blend of natural beauty and rural life. As vehicles move along gently winding hill roads, low-hanging clouds drift across the landscape, sometimes settling over lush green agricultural fields that…

hills · highway

Driving in Meghalaya during the daytime reveals the full grandeur of Northeast India’s hill landscape. Under clear daylight, the rolling green hills, deep valleys, cascading waterfalls, and dense subtropical forests become vividly visible.

hills · aerial

An aerial view captures the Ksasi River flowing through a verdant valley in the East Khasi Hills of Meghalaya, India, likely near Shella or Dawki, close to the Bangladesh border.

Uttarakhand·hills · wildlife

Monsoon time riverbank bird roots around for insects: Spotted Forktail along Bindal upper head waters.

aerial · hills

Teams from different villages arrive for the stoning festival with stone pelting and throwing of apples and pears.

forest · hills

Male and female Kalij Pheasant couple root around in the forest leafy under storey, at Motidhar sanctuary of wildfilmsindia, with the red lappet of the male matching the dropped Rhododendron arboreum petals, in terms of colour tonality.

Maharashtra·railway · hills

Talk of narrow gauge - see the width of hose quaint train tracks! All thanks to Sir Adamji Peerbhoy, it seems! He was the Founder of the Matheran Light Railway.

hills

What steady focus and concentration, this caterpillar chows down on a ginger leaf, meticulously trying to finish the leaf and damage the plan, to ensure its own existence! What species of caterpillar would this be? A butterfly one, perhaps?…

hills · railway

This ladybird sucks on some plant sap and goes about exploring our vegetable patch in the monsoon season, as it seems to have missed the spring-time train to the Himalaya! Lady birds are supposed to migrate in large flocks to the glacial re…

Bhutan·hills

Jomolhari - The mountain (ri) of the Goddess (lha) Jomo, can be seen from Jele-la (la or pass) that connects Paro and Ha in Bhutan. It is also spelled as Cheli la, Jele la or Chele la.

highway · hills

Enjoy a peaceful daytime drive in Meghalaya, where a smooth two-lane road stretches through rolling green hills under a bright blue sky filled with soft white clouds.

hills · river

Bistorta flowers and the Jallandhri Garh stream above Harsil: Himalayan autumn in brilliant colours.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

Pretty little Green Pigeons feed on monsoon fruiting Verbena - fig type berries at our wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet sanctuary in the Himalaya, around Landour.

Uttarakhand·river · hills

An overview of the trek to Roopkund Lake through the meadows of Ali and Bedni buggyal in the Garhwal Himalaya.

aerial · temple

Mukhba temple priests prepare to despatch the Gangotri idol to the Gangotri temple prior to the doors or kapath opening in end April 2025, as seen aerially, in this aerial view, from the air.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Bunches of run-wild Crocuses have taken over our early monsoon late summer hillsides at the Jabbarkhet botanical gardens of wildfilmsindia, overlooking the plains and the higher mountains of the Himalaya, as garden escapes that have got nat…

hills · river

Late monsoon cloud cover sheds ample rainfall to the already rich silt islands and river-banks of the Brahmaputra valley, leading to a super rich agrarian bowl in Assam.

hills · village

Driving through Meghalaya offers a striking blend of natural beauty and rural life. As vehicles move along gently winding hill roads, low-hanging clouds drift across the landscape, sometimes settling over lush green agricultural fields that…

birds · hills

A shock of Verditer blue gives away the male Verditer Flyatcher in the Himalaya Verditer Flycatcher has a lovely trilling call, male is deep sky blue while female is a lighter blue Deep sky blue Verditer Flycatcher at wildfilmsindia Motidha…

birds · wildlife

Having just fledged from their nests in the early monsoon season, these White-throated Laughing Thrush chicks frantically open and close their feathers to attract Mum's attention, to be fed: Laughing Thrushes.

Uttarakhand·hills

Is this a snail or a slug? What species is it? Seen at 6300 feet altitude in the western Himalayan region of Mussoorie, in the peak monsoon season. Help us identify the same!

Tamil Nadu·hills

Thick Nilgiri hill forests on the crests of hills above small towns outside Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu.

Uttarakhand·industry · monsoon

Near the Tehri dam, one can still see vestigaes of the Uttarakhand floods that ravaged this valley of the Ganges some years back.

river · forest

The red-base jezebel butterfly (Delias pasithoe) is found from Sikkim to Arunachal Pradesh, the hills of the Northeast of India. It flies from lower hills to 2,100m from February to March and July to December.