Wilpattu National Park (Willu-pattu; Land of Lakes) is a park located on the island of Sri Lanka. The unique feature of this park is the existence of "Willus" (Natural lakes) - Natural, sand-rimmed water basins or depressions that fill with rainwater. Located in the Northwest coast lowland dry zone of Sri Lanka. The park is located 30 km west Anuradhapura and located 26 km north of Puttalam (approximately 180 km north of Colombo). The park is 131, 693 hectares and ranges from 0 to 152 meters above sea level. Nearly sixty lakes (Willu) and tanks are found spread throughout Wilpattu. Wilpattu is the largest and one of the oldest National Parks in Sri Lanka. Wilpattu is among the top national parks world-renowned for its leopard (Panthera pardus kotiya) population. The leopard population in Wilpattu is not known. [wiki]
"Prepare to be spontaneous" is probably the most appropriate piece of advice you can give any budding photographer. But what does it mean? And how do I get prepared?
A (talented) photography friend, Abhiroop Ghosh Dastidar, contacted me last week via facebook sending me a link to Wild Planet Photo Magazine saying "Buddy this is yours right"? He we referring to the image of the leopard, which is indeed mine.
Day 7/7 #challengeonnaturephotography. This is my final and one of my most unique images.
Day 6/7 #challengeonnaturephotography and I have decided to dig back into my archives to one of my most memorable images, and one of my first forays into wildlife photography at Bandipur National Park in Karnataka.
Day 5/7 #challengeonnaturephotography and something a little different for me, a snake. This is a little bronzeback tree snake I saw scurrying around the undergrowth in the Western Ghats on the boarder of Goa and Karnataka. Wildlife is everywhere in the western ghats, you just have to look! :)
Day 4/7 of my #challengeonnaturephotography and I am going to continue on the theme of recent images. Here is a rare sight indeed, 5 malabar hornbills in a single frame... It was taken in the western ghats in northern Karnataka, and the picture does not give justice to the sight we saw. There were actually 10 hornbills, fleeting from tree to tree in a flock.
I would like to nominate Fiona Johnson to take up the #challengeonnaturephotography! :)
