Yash Gupta

Jabalpur! The place that made me what I am today. The place where it all started, the place which taught me how to respect the flora and fauna all around me. The place has no big forest ranges in it but those small patches and perfect habitats makes this place the heaven for a wildlifer. I was not a wildlifer, I was just a kid with a liking towards wildlife which was passed onto me by my father. I don't even remember when that liking got converted into passion. It all started one day when I was just sitting in my room and heard a shrill call from my backyard. “What a loud thing to hear in the morning!” I exclaimed! A beautiful blue colored bird with a long red beak was resting on a dry tree. The first thing that came to my mind was to click its photograph. Although I was not into photography then, I still don't know why it was the first thought that had entered my mind. Anyhow, I took my camera and clicked a blurry image. That was the first image I took as far as I remember, and after that - that one picture became hundreds of images and those hundreds of images are in lakhs now. In which, a majority were taken in my hometown- one of the most beautiful places to observe flora and fauna, and a paradise for those birds and animals to live in.