Yellow Phantom
Ali Husain Photography
by Syed Ali Husain
3y ago
I was just one year old when I first went to Corbett. That was the spark. My dad, a wildlife enthusiast, had binoculars and a camera which were my toys as I took my very first steps. I would spend hours observing birds visiting our home in Lucknow. Pretending to be on a safari, I would show my younger brother the birds and give them names I thought most appropriate… Summer and winter vacations, Eid or Diwali break, our destination was fixed- Corbett Tiger Reserve, where I would climb up my dad’s shoulders to see when a tiger would show up. Instead of photographing what I saw, I would come back ..read more
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The Bird Paradise
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by Syed Ali Husain
3y ago
A Cormorant carves a trail in a pond Bharatpur, The Bird Paradise – with so many flourishing bird sanctuaries all over India, I wondered how this place ended up winning the title. After a few trips however I could think of a few reasons why was it called so. Could it be because in the early morning, when the sky is still choosing its palette for the day, there are Rufous treepies and peacocks to wake you up, grey hornbils to serve you the morning tea and a kingfisher, taking its first dive, trying its chances to have its breakfast before you. Once you’re up, and you are setting out for the tra ..read more
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Mother Nurture
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by Syed Ali Husain
3y ago
I entered the Dhikala zone from the Dhangadi gate and lost mobile network, which I desperately needed to check the climate conditions for the upcoming dates of my safaris… The sky was clear, but I feared it could rain in the next five days, making tiger sightings impossible. My thoughts bounced on the floor of the Gypsy on the bumpy road fraught with pebbles and sedimentary rocks as I headed for the Dhikala forest rest house (FRH). Gypsies creep through the mist of the sleeping forest Before setting out for my first safari, I wanted to investigate tiger sightings in the different zones. Amid i ..read more
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The Ides of March
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by Syed Ali Husain
3y ago
“Sightings thandi hein ajkal” That’s how Rizwan, my driver, greeted me on my most recent trip to Corbett. Not paying much attention, I started observing the forest. As far as I could see, I found a prodigality to pattern and colour which I wasn’t really expecting. It was spring; new flowers were blooming, and the Flame of Forest trees cheered my mood as they lit up as vertical runways for the arrival of the Asian Paradise Flycatchers and the Indian Pitta from the south! The Barbets had already come to mark the end of Indian winter, and to welcome the arrival of the new season wi ..read more
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Orange is Not the New Black
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by Syed Ali Husain
3y ago
    Dear Tourist, I think it’s really great that you’re planning to spend a couple of weeks in the jungle looking for tigers, but I thought you should know a few things I’ve been lucky enough to find out myself over the years. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Don’t think because we’re in 2016 that conservation is something that has been accomplished. It is a daily struggle, and as tiger populations rise, some of these new faces leave protected areas to find territories of their own, and since man is occupying major portions of forest in a mad rush to turn it into ..read more
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The Green Dream
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by Syed Ali Husain
3y ago
A lot can happen over a few safari seasons at the ol’ and venerable Jim Corbett National Park, but the rise of tigress Paaro, also known as Paarwali and Nashili, to unexpected prominence, something that put the once drawless grasslands of Paar on everybody’s itinerary, is the stuff of legends. Over the past year, her magnificent sightings have come to guarantee that every morning come 3 a.m., each available Gypsy is revving it’s engine to scramble, as expectant tourists and photographers decry their drivers towards the edge of the 30 Km/h inner-park speed limit to catch the new-crowned queen o ..read more
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Preying for Rain
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by Syed Ali Husain
3y ago
“Kuch mila?” That was the only greeting on the tongues of the drivers and photographers in Corbett Tiger Reserve, and also mine. The forest Gypsys were running from Paar to Mota Sal and back- all unsuccessful in tracing the tiger that we all knew was just around the bush somewhere, so close we could almost smell it. Or perhaps that was just our optimism… Two days ago when I had entered the Dhikala area, I could see how unpleasant the flora had become- dried up leaves on once magnificent Sal trees, burnt bushes and beautiful flowers which had now turned black. I could easily make out that the f ..read more
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Misty Deer Fight
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by Syed Ali Husain
3y ago
  My Gypsy coughed twice as it moved slowly in the ghost-grey mist that tickled the sleeping Sal trees on the Main Malani road. The biting wind chilled my fingers into clumsy numbness, and chills seeped into my knees causing unbearable itching, spreading painfully to my toes. The cold skated on my knuckles and waded through the raised hair on my hand and spread to my elbows. In the utter silence of the jungle I could hear my driver’s neck rubbing with his collar which rotated at every turn. As we took a sharp right, a rustle in the bushes made my driver stop the vehicle. It could be a shy ..read more
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Hunter’s Plight
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by Syed Ali Husain
3y ago
Sharmilee with her eyes on sambhar It was a dream for me to capture a hunting scene. As luck would have it, I ended up photographing two. Back in 2014, I saw a tigress stalking a sambhar deer in Bijrani. I waited for more than three hours with my camera set up- the tigress was in a crouching position behind some bushes with her eyes locked on that Sambhar, and mine on her ! Trying to locate the sambhar by smellSharmile walking away Within an hour or two many more gypsys gathered at the point waiting for the thrilling action to begin. The tigress,o n the other hand, had frozen&nb ..read more
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