Wildlife photography is not easy. The most important thing a wildlife photographer has to learn is patience. Feher being a young photographer has acquired the patience, to study the bird or animal’s behavior, stalking and approaching skills. He chose wildlife photography to spread awareness through his photographs about the ecology, ambience and bio diversity around us. He wants to tell people that there are so much more in the forests than the big cats. He suggests every nature lover to go out and explore the unexplored world of animals, but with utmost care and sensitivity towards them.
Being a wildlife photographer Feher always looked up to the experts in the field. His inspiration is renowned Wildlife Photographer Mr. Sudhir Shivaram. Feher took online lessons from him on wildlife photography and recently accompanied him to Ranthambore for a photography tour. Another inspiration is International photographer Mr. David Lloyd for his daring personality and the way he interacts with wildlife.
Every photographer has a favourite subject, likewise Feher loves to capture Kingfisher birds and Tigers. Among birds, Kingfisher has many species which are colorful and attractive, making them praise worthy subject for a photographer. Similarly, photographing a Tiger in its natural habitat is every wildlife photographer’s dream. To accomplish this dream, Feher has travelled to many National Parks in India like Kanha, Bandhavgarh, Satpura, Ranthambore and Bandipur. His photographing skills portrayed some beautiful expressions of tigers in their natural habitats. Feher is now a regular visitor to the national parks for his love to the nature and wildlife accompanied by his family. From helping him psychologically to supporting him financially, his family always encouraged him to carry forward his passion. His architect mother is also a photographer by passion and loves to accompany him during his photo-walks and photography tours. Feher aspires to be a Civil Engineer in future.
Successful wildlife photography requires special equipments like long focal length lenses, camera traps, flash extenders, tripod etc. Feher started to upgrade his equipment for a better photography experience which led him to a full frame camera, Nikon D750 with 600mm f/4 prime lens for a tighter look of the animals. He has a Nikon 1.4x teleconverter, gimbal head, ball head and different types of filters as per his needs.
Feher is not only a young wildlife photographer, he works for conservation of the wildlife too. In Bhopal, he is attached to ‘Bhopal Birds’ and ‘We Sparrow’ groups for conservation of local and migrated birds. He is concerned about the fact that the Sumatran tigers are decreasing and they are in the list of critically endangered species on the IUCN Red List in 2008. Deforestation, poaching, retaliatory killing for endangering animals and humans are the reasons behind the decreasing population of the Sumatran tigers.
Feher also likes to be associated with the local camera clubs to teach newcomers and learn from the experts about wildlife photography. ‘Bhopal Camera Club’ is a local camera club founded in 2018, having photographers from all genres. Feher thinks the community of 200 people is a good platform to create experience, review and criticize the photographs which could help to build up the aspect and character of a photographer. One of the club’s most Senior Wildlife Photographer Mr. Goutam Mitra accompanied Feher during his photography trips to Van Vihar National Park, Bhopal. Mr. Mitra has a wide knowledge about birds which helped very much. Tips from him on camera angles, lenses, time of capturing the birds helped Feher a lot. Mr. Rajnish Khare, the founder of Bhopal Camera Club has been a guiding figure to all the members of the group. Feher is happy to be in this club and participates in every photowalk and photo trips arranged by them.
Recognition gives an artist the enthusiasm to work better. As a young photographer, Feher always got support and accolades from his school. He got featured in the School Newspaper of Madhya Pradesh. He bagged the First prize in Summer Inter-school Photography Competition in 2017 in the State of Madhya Pradesh in India and in Black and White contest by Instagram Group of Bhopal in 2017, where he presented a black and white portrait of a Bengal Tiger. He got the Second Prize in Wildlife Week arranged by Van Vihar National Park, Bhopal. Local newspapers always admire him by featuring his photos. His works were exhibited at many photography exhibitions in Bhopal. In 2016, 5 photos of Feher were exhibited at Bharat Bhawan in collaboration with Bhopal Birds community. In 2017, 2 photos were exhibited at Bharat Bhawan by Instagram Bhopal community, in 2018, 6 photos were exhibited by Bhopal Camera Club and 3 photos by Dainik Bhaskar in collaboration with WWF on the occasion of ‘Earth Hour’.
