“monsoon”

wildlife · hills

Baya Weaver Bird on a palm tree, and hard at work on completing its pendulous nest, during the monsoon breeding season. The Baya Weaver (Ploceus philippinus) is a weaverbird found across the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia.

river · hills

Smaller cascades and cataracts lead up to the big one! Frothing brown monsoon water tumbles down Sharavathi River, which leaps off a cliff to form Jog Falls' cataracts.

Uttarakhand·hills

Yet another high altitude Himalayan flora bouquet: Stellera chamaejasme with its fine scented mountain fragrance lives at the edges of alpine meadows and rocky lands, Rhubarb is a highly edible Himalayan plant, Rhododendron anthopogon is us…

Uttarakhand·hills · highway

A road trip from Delhi to Mussoorie offers a perfect blend of smooth highways and scenic mountain roads. Covering approximately 280–300 kilometers, the journey typically takes 6 to 8 hours, depending on traffic and weather conditions.

hills · monsoon

Driving through Meghalaya during rainfall transforms the journey into a cinematic Himalayan experience. Raindrops scatter across the car windshield, blurring and refracting the lush green landscape beyond.

hills · highway

Driving in Meghalaya during the daytime offers a clear and immersive view of one of Northeast India’s most scenic states.

Shillong, Meghalaya·hills · highway

Night driving in Meghalaya offers a completely different perspective of Northeast India’s hill landscape.

highway · monsoon

This video captures the scene near the Varsha Jal Nikasi Pump House in Chattarpur, Delhi, during water overflow after recent rainfall. Water is seen flowing across the road, creating temporary streams that disrupt normal traffic movement.

aerial · hills

Champawat town in aerial view: Uttarakhand urban centers are creaking at the seams with over construction, as seen aerially, in this aerial view from the air.

village · aerial

Jumping up and down with super motivation and enthusiasm is team white of pear and apple throwing villagers at the Bagwal festival in Devidhura, Champawat.

Uttarakhand·flowers · industry

We get busy planting Magnolia soulangeana and Camellia at our wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet botanical collections, during the monsoon planting season.

monsoon

Indian Air Force provides aid to the Kerala flood victims. India’s southern state of Kerala suffered its worst monsoon flooding in a century, with more than one million people displaced, and more than 400 reported deaths in 2018.

West Bengal·monsoon · wildlife

Mangrove swamps and estuaries of West Bengal's Sundarbans wetlands, after floods and flooding events. These plants can survive the extremes of salt water exposure and being both flooded and dried out seasonally.

Landour, Uttarakhand·flowers · farmland

Crocus flowers bloom during the monsoon season at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical garden in Landour, Uttarakhand.

hills · river

Trimbakeshwar Range with Deccan Traps, Brahmagiri Hills, Western Ghats beyond Nashik, in Maharashtra, as seen aerially, in this aerial view, from the air.

Gujarat

Coot, Pochard, Geese, Sheldrake and more - all gather at the Thol wetland in Gujarat, to celebrate the post-monsoon bounty of feed and plentiful water.

Uttarakhand·hills · temple

Clouds move fast and partly cover the sun over the Dehra dun valley, as seen from Landour in Uttarakhand, India. Post monsoon clouds still have a rain-filled look to them even as they loom high above the Dehradun valley below.

Gujarat·farmland · coastline

An aerial journey of the salt marshes of Rann of Kutch. Kutch’s white desert is on a wide stretch moving towards the northwestern horizon with vast touching sea bank – the Arabian Sea.

highway · wildlife

Why on earth is Papa crow sitting atop Mama crow in their nest? Is it to shade her from the summer sun, or to keep her company? Or was it just a mistake? Just WHY are these Crows sitting one on top of the other to incubate their eggs in the…

flowers

A dense foliage of China Rose blooming in white in the monsoon in eastern India. White blooms of the flower. Close ups of the flower blooms with their reproductive organs.

hills · monsoon

The big question - is this Commelina coelestis? And if so, is it an indigenous species? Or is it an import from Mexico that has gone wild in the western Himalaya? It grows profusely on monsoon rain-drenched slopes around Landour in the Augu…

hills · farmland

Digging into the monsoon greenery along and in the agricultural fields, these industrious villagers pick and harvest Capsicum or Shimla mirch from their fields which abut the state boundary of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.

river

Walk down a stony path to the Baghsunag falls that offer surprising sights of nature. This waterfall gets dried up in the month of April till the arrival of rainy season.

monsoon

Red Velvet Mite or Trombidiidae A Velvet mite at its natural habitat during the monsoon season in Uttarakhand, India.