A great horn bill Story..!
It was an after noon in Anamalai Tiger Reserve..Myself,Abishek Ravi,Balaji Loganathan and Angad Achappa were waiting for these magnificent bird to come and feed its young ones..while we were waiting and its been from morning..fortunate enough we saw the first feeding. And it was angad's and Balaji's first time here they got wonderful photographs of the female feeding and even a graceful flight towards the nest..so we thought we would stay here to see the second feeding that is in the afternoon...meanwhile i decided to take few macros with the sadness that i dint get the flight of the female as i had the focus point changed for composing the perched bird..yeah! I went wandering this estate looking for some robberflies and amphibians found few Common Bush Frogs and borrowing Frogs. saw one robberfly with a kill couldn't photograph it..then Angad called me has they found a Forest lizard climbing a tree, changed me lens to Canon EF 400mm F/5.6L and took few images of it..then changed back to me macro lens, another one hour spent taking macros it was like 1 o'clock in afternoon we were talking..with balaji watching for the hornbills coming back to feed the chicks,i had the Macro lens on the Cam all this time,All of a sudden balaji in a low voice Shouts hornbill..I froze,glad i had the 400mm Lens out and not in the bag changed the lens,A male hornbill flying towards a tree in front of us.. i dint see the settings started to Photograph it, 6 Frames But one Frame before the Landing Full Wings open Couldn't believe i got the shot..Others dint try...i had the settings "Shutter Speed 1/250s,Aperture f/5.6,ISO 100" i was Extremely happy about it..and glad i tried to get a shot which was unimaginable