Cattle Egret and Buffalo, by Saniar Rahman Rahul

Cattle Egret and Buffalo, you can find them always together. Either the cattle egret hitching a ride on a Buffalo, or catching insect and small vertebrate prey from the field while accompanying them. Though I took this from Shaistaganj in Kalenga Forest Range of Rema Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary, but it is one of the most common scenes of rural Bengal.

Canon 7D with 300mm f4 | Exposure 1/500sec @ f/8 | ISO 200 | Focal Length 300mm
Cattle Egret and Buffalo, by Saniar Rahman Rahul

Award Winner: Photo of the Day | November 04
Award Score: 69.5 (Value 13, Clarity 13, Composition 17.5, Style 13, Skill 13)
Photo of the Day Award Category: Wildlife Photography
Photograph Location: Shaistaganj, Kalenga Forest Range, Rema Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary, Sylhet | Bangladesh

Photographer: Saniar Rahman Rahul (Dhaka, Bangladesh) Registered
Saniar Rahman Rahul was the first winner for ‘Photo of the Month Award’ in June 2010. He was fascinated by seeing his father taking pictures with a camera while his family was in Iraq during his childhood. Later in life, in 1997, while he became very much attached with his profession of ‘graphic design’, Rahul rediscovered the creative side of photography. He started his career as a professional graphic designer in October of 1995, in a pre-press house called Color Scan, which is one of the pioneers in the pre-process printing media in Bangladesh. Afterwards, he moved to Power Point, another pre-press house. Before he finally settled into advertising, he also worked in an IT company called Abtab IT. Moving to advertising from printing media was a big step for him. In 2005, he joined G3, a special wing of Gray Worldwide. Two years later, he moved to Paper Rhyme. Now he is working as the Art Director of Grey World Wide, one of the ten largest advertising agencies in the world.

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