Field Notes

Notes from the hide.

Slow essays on craft, ethics, and the birds I keep returning to.

  • May 20247 min read

    Three mornings with the Hawk-Cuckoo

    A pre-monsoon vigil in Bandipur, and what patience does to a frame.

  • March 20245 min read

    On the ethics of bait

    Why I stopped placing perches, and what the photographs gained in return.

  • February 20249 min read

    Bharatpur in numbers

    Two weeks, eleven kingfisher dives, and a long argument with f/8.