Capturing memories
N U R T U R I N G N A T U R E
As an amateur wildlife photographer currently based out of Mumbai. I capture nature through my lens as I see it. I’ve spent last 6 years capturing wildlife in and around places in India. There’s always been something new to see, to learn and to explore. Balancing my professional sales career and pursuing my passion as a wildlife photographer itself is not less than an adventure. Whenever I step into a jungle or a patch of greenery with my camera in hand, the corporate world fades into oblivion. Then it’s me embracing the primal nature in all its glory. More I see it, more I love it. And, more I love it, more I try to protect it……
This website is my humble effort to take you on a journey with me, to excite you with my captures, to lure you with the beauties as I see it and move you to conserve it. We are in this together…. to preserve and restore, to love and cherish for generations to come.
How It All Began
Accompanying a friend in a nature trip
It was early June, the monsoon had just set in the western coast of India. A few drizzles here and there had sprouted the electrifying greenery in the interior Maharashtra grassland and forests. My first field trip was with a bunch of nature explorers under the leadership of an eminent macro photographer.
The forest of Phansad welcomed me with open arms. The variety of flora and fauna amazed me. The creatures which I watched in the wildlife documentaries were live in front of me to be captured. The inner satisfaction of capturing those moments gave me my direction to foray into the world of photography…… wildlife photography, capturing nature’s creation !
The below picture is of a Deccan Banded Gecko, its clearing its eyes ( since they don't have eyelids) form the water by droplets, via the tongue.
Memories Captured
Lockdown birding
Birding from balcony was never so fun
The pandemic in 2020 gave us a rain check on our ‘taken for granted’ attitude towards nature. It really pushed me to see my surroundings in a different perspective. The series of photographs below are essentially all around our condo and photographed strictly from my balcony.
There was a nesting of an Oriental Pied Hornbill family in one of the large trees in our condo. This pandemic gave me the opportunity to see the entire behaviour of the family, the male bird was protective of the females and the chicks, many a time I saw the chicks were lazy and it sat on the ground for hours and the mother had the perseverance to push it to fly back on the branches. Slowly as resident of the condo became comfortable with them, they started to come and sit on the parapet of the balconies, they knew they were safe with us around The first picture in the collage below is my favourite, it gives me hope, the Hornbill looking towards the sky with an inquisitive look, it show that again things will become normal and this time many of us will be a bit more careful with nature and wildlife.
Orieltal Pied Hornbill
Copper Throated Sunbird
Oriental White Eye
Asian Koel (Male)
Asian Koel ( Female )
Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker
Black Headed Oriole
Profile of a Spotted Dove
Yellow Vented Bulbul
Orange Headed Flowerpecker
Olive Backed Sunbird
More About Me -
Soumya Majumder
Your passion will make you find "time" for doing what you like , don't ignore your inner call, follow it.
Having had the privilege of growing up in a quaint Indian port township in the lap of Mother Nature, nature has always been an integral part of my life, specially wildlife. Wildlife photography thus provides me with a perfect getaway from everyday noise and the possibility to spend time with myself amidst the beauty of the wilderness of flora and fauna. Wildlife is a great source of inspiration to me and I try to photograph it in an artistic way rather than merely documenting details. Through my lens, I try to portray the natural world in the way I see and feel it. For me being into wildlife photography, is not merely a hobby or pastime but essential and vital because I believe that like a true Mother, nature gives us a reason for hope.
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