The Enchanted Woods
Dryads, sprites, pixies, sylphs… this milky apparition brings to mind all manner of enchanted woodland creatures that pepper folklore and mythology. What you ar Read More
Ghost Protocol
Eyes upturned, wing membrane stretched thin, a Pteropodidaeis fruit bat is momentarily framed by a ring of leaves in Badlapur in Maharashtra. With this picture, Read More
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
From its rocky perch, a snow leopard seems to calculate the risk of hunting an oblivious Himalayan ibex that stands on the precipice. It is an electrifying fram Read More
Silverfish at Sunset
A school of silverside fish of the Atherinidae family swim just below the surface of the water off Maalhos island in the Maldives. Their glistening slender bodi Read More
Dive Bomber
An Indian Eagle-owl unwittingly turns air carrier as it is mobbed by an audacious Black Drongo! Whip smart and assertive, the Black Drongo will attack much larg Read More
Death on the Tracks
Quite literally stopped dead by our tracks, the body of an Indian rock python lies by the railway line that cuts through the Buxa Tiger Reserve in West Bengal. Read More
A Flurry of Wings
Hundreds of Rosy Starlings sweep across the frame in Bhigwan, Maharashtra. They stream forth from the spindly boughs of a tree in a splendid murmuration. And ye Read More
A Tendril Moment
Photographed in all its iridescent splendour is a flower chafer beetle of the subfamily Cetoniinae clinging to the tendril of a plant in Bengaluru, Karnataka. T Read More
On a Wing and a Prayer
Yashpal Rathore, Sanctuary’s Photographer of the Year 2019, wins our editor’s approval this year! In an ancient temple in Hampi, Karnataka, two Kelaart’s leaf-n Read More
SEPTIC SITUATION
Contorted, helpless and stuck, an Indian gaur Bos gaurus looks up from the septic tank that it has fallen into. In Kotagiri town in Nilgiris district, Tamil Nad Read More
