hills

Uttar Pradesh·hills

Garbage mountain higher than the Taj Mahal: This is how India celebrates development, creates new mountain ranges! Pariah Kites and JCB's vie for space and sorting capability, among India's mountain of reject! JCB machine works at Ghazipur…

hills · flowers

Our gardeners plant Dutchmaster daffodil bulbs at the wildfilmsindia botanical gardens in the Himalaya, in the winter season, in December 2021. We had a brilliant showing thereafter, in the spring. Watch this space for images of the same!

birds · hills

Striated Laughing Thrush vocalizes by puffing out its throat - see this lovely Himalayan bird video. Sounds similar to the White-crested Laughing Thrush, but different too.

birds · hills

Striated Laughing Thrush vocalizes by puffing out its throat - see this lovely Himalayan bird video. Sounds similar to the White-crested Laughing Thrush, but different too.

hills

Ominous and dark or beautiful and fleeting? The moon races across a cloudy but bright Himalayan night sky, as seen in this 4K time lapse taken from our wildfilmsindia mountains in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

hills · flowers

Cultivated bulbaceous Iris hollandica flowering at the wildfilmsindia botanical gardens in the Himalayan spring-time, in March 2022.

flowers · hills

These leafy bracts confidently emerging from our beds are the leaves and pre-bud spathes of the tulips at our botanical gardens in the Himalaya. The flower buds look promising.

flowers · hills

The Grape Hyacinth is one spectacular sight in spring blooming in a flower pot. The bulbous blooms look almost like grapes planted mostly for their ornamental features.

flowers · hills

Mammoth Vernus Crocus Flower Record shuts for night, at wildfilmsindia botanical gardens in the Himalaya

flowers · hills

Giant Mammoth Yellow Crocus flowers open and close with the change in daylight, at the wildfilmsindia botanical gardens in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·hills · old town

The restored George Everest House, Hathipaon, Mussoorie : House on the edge of the hill. Everest's Himalayan perch: George Everest House, Hathipaon, Mussoorie, restored, back on tourist map George Everest House, Hathipaon, Mussoorie : House…

farmland · river

A lovely aerial view of the villages along the lower Yamuna / Jamna river valley in the western portion of Uttarakhand state.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

Benog, Bhadraj and the cloudy villages and forests of Benog Wildlife Sanctuary, beyond Cloud End, near Mussoorie in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

politics · hills

The landscape at of the heart of the Lutyens' Delhi designed Parliament and South-North block district is about to change, with a massive re-development project in the final stages of completion.

Uttarakhand·aerial · hills

An otherwise brilliant aerial view of Musoorie on a clear day with the snow peaks of Bandarpunch and An aerial view of Mussoorie hill station town in aerials: What a crowded unorganized town we have made of a once quaint British hill statio…

Uttarakhand·highway · snow

Plains cars and drivers have a tough time negotiating slippery snowy conditions at Jabbarkhet Bazaar in Mussoorie, as freshly fallen snow begins to melt, and turns the road skiddy.

Uttarakhand·hills

These Black and Yellow Grosbeak have migrated to the lower hills in winter, to spend their days in relatively warmer climes, but some stay on in Mussoorie in summer as well. Climate change at work?

hills · highway

Waste mountain of Delhi: Such is the trash we Indians generate, it provides sustenance for millions of birds. Had we been more responsible, it could provide for us as well, and the poor of India.

Uttarakhand·hills · aerial

See the LBSNAA campus and the western part of Mussoorie town, from the air. One can see the Garhwal range of the Himalaya on a brilliantly clear winter morning, in the backdrop.

Uttarakhand·snow · hills

Heavy snowfall occurs at wildfilmsindia estate and forests at Motidhar Pari Tibba Estate and Jabbarkhet in Uttarakhand: Himalayan winter wonderland indeed! As seen from the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens, the Dehradun - Dhnaolti r…

Uttarakhand·hills · sport

Clouds race past the sky, leaving behind a trail of light and shadow in their wake, on the ground... They are the real artists in their own fleeting ephemeral world of sky painting.

Landour, Uttarakhand·highway · snow

When it snows in Landour, Mussoorie or Dhanaulti, tourists from the plains scurry up the hills to see the snow. This leads to heavy congestion and traffic jams on the narrow, winding mountain roads of Mussoorie.

highway · hills

A fabulous mid-winter time western Himalayan snow peak panorama from Buranskhanda village on the Mussoorie-Dhanolti road in Uttarakhand.