Conservation | Ashok Nair Photography

“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”

– Anthony Bourdain

The memories of what I took from my travels. Here.

Monkey Business

I put my camera down. The scene was too amusing to remain detached and focused on mundane things like composition and carefully considered camera settings. I was sitting on the ground, right in front of the bungalow I was staying in. In front of me a Lion Tailed Macaque was utterly captivated by an empty coconut shell. It studied it closely. It tried to peer through it. It gnawed at it in various ways. After a while, it seemed to get frustrated that it hadn’t unlocked the

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The Elusive Hornbills

The refreshing coolness of the air was what I first registered as I opened the door and stepped out onto the verandah. The joyous awareness of the musical symphony the birds were creating followed a second later. That insouciant lad whistling gaily in the happy knowledge of the fact that he is going to be skipping school today ? That was the Malabar whistling thrush. That pedantic knocking of a labourer going about his daily dreary tasks ? That was the barbet. Then the

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