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lake · river

Driving en route Pangong Tso, past Chang La, and towards the lake in India's trans Himalaya, with a metalled black-top road leading to a turquoise blue mountain lake with puffy cotton woolly clouds in a deep blue azure sky, flying past graz…

Karnataka·river · aerial

The high rise sprawl starts where the low rise crowding ends in the suburbs of Bangalore city, Karnataka. The BTM lake is a large water body at the edge of the city.

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Chemrey (and not Taktok!) Monastary in Ladakh, seen en route to Wari La and Chang La passes that lead to Agham and Pangong Tso or the Nubra Valley. Lovely fall colours with yellows on the poplar trees and browns on the hillsides behind...

boats · river

A modest boat jetty along Kerala's waterways, with houses and farmlands attached and connected from the mainland. A large town runs along the riverine network.

Uttarakhand·monsoon · lake

Late monsoon season rain delivers heavy showers in the mountains around Mussoorie, nearly floods trout pond and keeps our walnut grove valley super drenched.

Uttarakhand·river · lake

Among the milling hordes of Rainbow Trout, this Himalayan frog species feels out-numbered and out of place, sticking to one end of the pond's wall.

Karnataka·forest · monsoon

Agricultural fields and forest at the edge of Bandipur National Park. Aerial view of farming and farmlands in south India. Bandipur National Park in flaming monsoon sunset evening colours - wetland and forest interface

Ladakh·lake · aerial

Great Lakes of Ladakh in aerial view : Blue skies and cotton puff clouds over Pangong and Tso Moriri

lake · flowers

Trypophobia alert! Mature seed pod of a Bhartiya Kamal or Lotus, ready to expel the seeds into the pond.

Himachal Pradesh·river · lake

Beautiful aquamarine lake in the trans Himalayan region of Himachal Pradesh's Spiti, with spring-fed meadows. The exit of the lake's waters must harbour lots of spring and summer flowers such as primulas!

Uttarakhand·river · lake

Naini Lake in Nainital looks mysterious in with a cover of mist during the rainy season.

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At our trout hatchery, our team collects and nets the trout fingerlings, to shift them to a larger and deeper pond. They are a wide net and steer it with their feet, in order to capture the largest number of trout fingerlings.

lake · river

wildfilmsindia yet again visited the high altitude lake of Gurudongmar in north Sikkim, in the summer of 2022. Situated on a lip of the Tibetan plateau that comes in to India, this is unique high altitude frontier country.

hills · lake

Slow motion glories! Aporia agathon or Great Blackvein Butterflies mud-puddle in our dried out trout pond at the wildfilmsindia estate at Pari Tibba in the western Himalaya. They enjoy the cool water with algae in it.

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Feeding time leads to frenzy in the trout ponds at the wildfilmsindia botanical gardens and orchard in the western Himalaya. The Rainbow Trout fingerlings jump to the surface and break the surface too, to reach their fish feed pellets.

hills · lake

Aporia agathon or Great Blackvein Butterflies mud-puddle in our dried out trout pond at the wildfilmsindia estate at Pari Tibba in the western Himalaya. They enjoy the cool water with algae in it.

lake · village

A villager casts his net and tries to catch fish from a village pond in Orissa. He wades into the middle of the pond so as to catch the deepest waters. Man throws his net and tries to catch fish from a village pond in Orissa

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Squealing piggies hang out by the pond: pigs play in Orissa, even as a male tries to mount a not-so-receptive female, with multiple piglets all about. Wow - do those pigs breed and multiply!

village · lake

A Cormorant catches and eats a fish in a village pond in Orissa, takes long over it, savouring the moment. It dives in and picks out another fish from the murky yellow-green waters that are full of algal bloom.

birds · lake

A Purple Heron makes a sharp dive beak-first, and catches and eats a snake in a swampy wetland in Orissa.

birds · lake

A Kilkila sits on a twig above a pond, while a Green Barbet calls as does a Black-headed Oriole. The turquoise on the wings shine in the afternoon sun. The strong red beak looks like a potent weapon against a fish in water.

village · lake

An Odiya village boy jumps into a pond and catches fish with his hands alone in rural Orissa.

village · lake

Cooling off acquires an altogether different meaning when these village kids decide to take a dip in the local village pond, after school, and on their way back home! Maybe they even come out with a fish or two! Swimming in a pond: Village…