'I take pictures of anything and everything in nature, from elephants to falling leaves. I was inspired by the natural world around me when I was young. He is a full-time engineer, but as a self-taught photographer he makes multiple trips a year to India's national parks to hone his photography craft. Ganesh grew up in a small Indian village in a region of rainforest. 'I must have taken between 200 and 300 pictures over three days, but only a few turned out well.' A document of the world There wasn't much time to get the picture right and get everything into the shot the way I wanted it. The attack only lasted a few seconds before the lizard ran back inside. 'They would go for its tail, trying to make it leave the hole. They scavenge for anything, from eggs and small invertebrates to frogs, birds and small mammals. Monitor lizards invade parakeet nests looking for food. I decided to focus on these animals until I got the perfect picture.' Stealing and scavenging I normally roam around the park, but I stopped walking. He says, 'When I saw how this parakeet was behaving - aggressively pecking the lizard - I was taken aback. Ganesh has been visiting the park every year in search of migratory birds, but the winter of 2015 was the first time he saw a parakeet interact with a lizard.
It was taken in Keoladeo National Park, a man-made wetland home to hundreds of bird species. The image, Eviction attempt, earned Ganesh a place in this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition. Ganesh, from Bangalore in India, has been taking pictures of his country's wildlife for 23 years.ĭecades of practice have given him an eye for composition, resulting in his shot of a rose-ringed parakeet attacking a Bengal monitor lizard.
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