He was just 14 when he took a photograph of the endangered gharial with her hatchlings using an entry-level DSLR camera. But the photo turned out to be so stunning that he won the Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
Clicking away to glory
By: GI Team
Published on 02, Feb 2022
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