Welcome to the spectacular world of Indian wildlife ..., a presentation by a painter turned award-wining lensman Jagdeep Rajput from India, who incidently happened to buy his first telephoto zoom, a 70-210mm lens to help him paint portraits of people, but once started observing animals and birds,left painting for good and embraced photography, which soon became an obsession.
Some of the awards, which followed this body of work include:
'Specially Commended' Wildlife Photographer of the Year 1992, UK.
'Runner-up' for Gerald Durrell Award for endangered wildlife in Wildlife Photographer of the year 1995, UK.
Second prize in Canon Asia Pacific Photo Contest (CAPC 94) from Canon, Hongkong.
'Highly Commended' in Ballantine's International Photography Awards 1996, UK.
'Honorable Mention' in Canon Asia Pacific Photo Contest 1996 from Canon, Singapore.
'Honorable Mention' In National Geographic Traveller's 8th Annual Photo Contest 1996, USA.
Prize in International World Heritage Photo competition by UNESCO, France.
'Highly Honored' winner in Nature's Best Photography Awards 2005, USA.
2nd Prize in ABN AMRO Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Awards 2006.
1st Prize in professional category of Canon-WWF Photography Award 2006.
'Highly Honored' Winner in Engangered category of Nature's Best Photography Awards 2007, USA.
First Runner-up in 2008 Editor’s Pick Awards, USA in wildlife category.
‘Highly Honored Winner’ in the Animal Antics category of the 2009 Nature’s Best Photography Awards Competition, USA.
'Highly Honored' Winner in Engangered category of Nature's Best Photography Awards 2010, USA.
Highly Honored Winner’ in the Animal Antics category of the 2011 Nature’s Best Photography Awards Competition, USA.
Special mention in Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Awards, 2012.
'Highly Honored Winner" in the Endangered category of the 2012 Nature's Best Photography Awards Competition, USA.
First prize in the Wildlife category of International Photography Awards (IPA) 2013, USA.
Third prize in DJ Memorial Photography Contest, 2013.
1st Prize in Wildlife in 2014 Editor's Pick Awards, USA.
'Highly Honored Winner' image in Wildlife category of Nature's Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards 2014, USA.
An 'Honorable Mention' in International Photography Awards (IPA), USA 2014.
First prize in DJ Memorial photography Contest, 2015.
Some of the publications include:
-- Cover jacket of Portfolio 2 of Wildlife Photographer of the Year,1992, UK.
-- Advertisement of Canon in the National Geographic 'Wildlife as Canon sees it', USA.
-- BBC Wildlife magazine, UK.
-- National Geographic Traveller, USA.
-- Defenders of Wildlife calender, USA.
-- Nature’s Best Photography magazine, USA.
-- 1998 Travel Calender by National Geographic,
USA.
-- Cedco 2000 calender line, USA.
-- 1999 Defenders of Wildlife Calender, USA.
-- The Telegraph, UK; The Sunday Telegraph, UK;
The Independent, UK; The Sunday Times, UK;
The Daily Mail, UK; The Mail on Sunday UK.
-- The Sunday Magazine, UK ; The Economist, UK.
-- BBC Book on Tiger by Stephen Mills.
-- The World Heritage Sites of UNESCO, book by
UNESCO Italian National Commission.
-- SINRA, Japan.
-- Everyday Cards by Ink Group, Australia, etc. etc.
