Velavadar - Wildlife and Bird Photography Expedition

Wakeup call at 4:45 am. Morning tea / coffee would be served. We will then leave for safari gate by 5:30 am and reach the safari gate by 5:45 am. Safari would start at 6:00 am, (entry time might vary according to variation in park entry rules). During our first safari, we will be focusing on Hyenas and Wolves earlier in the morning, where we will be trying to create Backlit / Rim light images. Slowly, as time progresses, we will shift our focus towards the Jungle Cats and Blackbucks. By 10:30 am, we will exit the park and head towards our homestay. Gather for breakfast along with a basic feedback and image reviewing session. After an hour break, we will conduct a session on the fundamentals of Photography and image editing. Lunch would be served at 2:00 pm, and then we’ll leave for our evening safari by 2:45 pm (entry time might vary according to variation in park entry rules). 

During our 2nd safari, we will be focusing primarily on Blackbucks, Waterfowl, and birds of prey earlier, as the evening progresses, our focus will shift towards Jungle Cat, Hyenas, and Wolves, where we would try to create behavioural and action shots. Our target would be to create sunset shots with an animal in the evening. We would exit the park at sun set. After reaching our homestay, an image review session would be conducted and tips on the improvement of images would be given for the next session. By 8:30 pm, dinner would be served, and after dinner we would conduct an editing session along with tips on understanding animal behaviour and movements according to the day in the field. A brief on creating multi-exposure photography would be delivered.

Wakeup call at 4:45 am. Morning tea / coffee would be served. We will leave for safari gate by 5:30 am and safari would start approximately at 6:00 am. Our target earlier in the day would be creating golden hour images of Blackbuck, Hyenas, Wolves, and Wild Boars. If we sight any migratory bird, we would try to capture them in the early morning golden hour. As the day progresses, we would try to create unique images of common subjects with multi-exposure photography. We would exit the park by 10:30 am. We would reach our homestay and have breakfast by 10:45 am, and an image review session would be conducted later. After a one-hour break, we would conduct an editing and review session focusing on golden hour images and multi-exposure images. Lunch would be served at 2:00 pm, we would leave for our evening safari by 2:45 pm

Evening safari would start at 3:00 pm, and we would first focus on Waterfowl and Birds of Prey earlier in the safari, and progressively shift our focus on creating images of jungle cat behaviour. During sunset time, we would focus on either golden hour images of the jungle cat or focus on tracking hyenas and wolves.  We would exit the park as the sun sets. After reaching our homestay, an image review session would be conducted, and tips on improvement would be given. By 8:30, dinner would be served. Post dinner, we would conduct an editing session where tips on using masking tools would be given. We would then later decide to target a subject according to what we had missed.

Wakeup call at 4:45 am. Like everyday, the safari starts at 6 am. In these two safaris, we would primarily focus on creating images that we have missed and target images of species that we haven’t had a great opportunity to capture. We would exit the park by 10:30 am. Breakfast would be served by 10:45 am, and an image review session would follow. Tips for the final safari would be given, followed by an editing session. We would check out of the homestay after this. By noon, our taxis would arrive and we would pack our luggage except the camera equipment. Lunch would be served by 2:00 pm, and by 2:45 pm, we would leave for our final safari. In the evening safari, we would try to cover the images/subjects that we haven’t covered satisfactorily

By 7:15 pm, we would leave from Blackbuck National Park. Our target would be to reach the airport circle by 10:45 pm. On the way, we will have dinner (the cost of this dinner is not included in the cost; participants need to pay for dinner individually). We would then drop off the guests at the airport circle / airport, Ahmedabad.