I am frequently asked to advice people on what and when to upgrade camera gear. There is no short answer, but generally I consider several reasons to upgrade. So if you find yourself fitting into any of these categories, my recommendations are there also. 99% of the time I would suggest people to upgrade lenses BEFORE cameras...

The point of having a interchangeable lens camera is the ability to adapt it to the exact situation you. Your camera can be a portrait beast, a wildlife monster or a street chameleon, just by changing the lenses. Previously I have talked about my wildlife kit, but here I am going to go through my choice for travel!

The World Press Photo winners were announced last week, and they are some amazing images there. I strongly suggest you to go and check them out! :) Let me know if there is one you particularly love or hate in the comments!

But this post is not about the image themselves, but the camera used to capture them. Quesabesde.com used the EXIF data from the images to create the following graphic of cameras used by the winning shots!

A (talented) photography friend, Abhiroop Ghosh Dastidar, contacted me last week via facebook sending me a link to Wild Planet Photo Magazine saying "Buddy this is yours right"? He we referring to the image of the leopard, which is indeed mine.

Day 7/7 #‎challengeonnaturephotography‬. This is my final and one of my most unique images.

Day 6/7 #‎challengeonnaturephotography and I have decided to dig back into my archives to one of my most memorable images, and one of my first forays into wildlife photography at Bandipur National Park in Karnataka.

Day 5/7 #‎challengeonnaturephotography and something a little different for me, a snake. This is a little bronzeback tree snake I saw scurrying around the undergrowth in the Western Ghats on the boarder of Goa and Karnataka. Wildlife is everywhere in the western ghats, you just have to look! :)

Hey guys, I have been completely overwhelmed by your response to this series, and I am very sorry I won't be able to do all the images submitted. Thanks for your enthusiasm, and I hope you are finding it useful! :)

My next "Your image, my edit" (YIME) is of a seascape by Ravi Nookala, based in Bordeaux in France!

Day 4/7 of my #‎challengeonnaturephotography and I am going to continue on the theme of recent images. Here is a rare sight indeed, 5 malabar hornbills in a single frame... It was taken in the western ghats in northern Karnataka, and the picture does not give justice to the sight we saw. There were actually 10 hornbills, fleeting from tree to tree in a flock.

I would like to nominate Fiona Johnson to take up the ‪#‎challengeonnaturephotography‬! :)

Day 3/7 of my #‎challengeonnaturephotography and I am going to continue on the theme of recent images from Kabini, Karnataka. Here is one of a Langur sat up a tree...  nothing special, but I really liked the autumnal colours and lighting...  No matter how 'mundane' something is I am always striving to make better and better images of it, it is the only way to keep pushing yourself to improve! :)

Day 2/7 of my #‎challengeonnaturephotography, and another recent picture from Kabini, Karnataka, India. This time a Indian Scops owl trying to sleep! :)

#‎challengeonnaturephotography is doing the rounds on Facebook. The short of it is that if you are nominated you have to share a nature pic every day for a week. And every day of that week, you get to nominate another to do likewise!

Many thanks to Shreejata Gupta for nominating me for‪#‎challengeonnaturephotography and to start with (1/7) here is a recent pic I like for the following reasons: