🪶 Shashwat Sapkota · Wildlife Photographer · Nepal
Software engineer by weekday, wildlife photographer by weekend. I track the birds, beasts and quiet light of Nepal, from the hills of the Kathmandu Valley to the grasslands of Chitwan.
somewhere above the valley ~
Field Notes
I am a hobbyist wildlife photographer, and Nepal is my whole studio. Being a software engineer, weekends are when I get to disappear into it. On Saturdays and Sundays I wander the outskirts of the Kathmandu Valley, looking for birds and small creatures in the light of early morning.
When the holidays come, I go further, to the national parks of the lowlands. Chitwan has always been my favourite. Its grasslands and rivers never run out of surprises. The search for the Royal Bengal Tiger, though, is still on.
Featured Encounters
Milvus migrans
◍ Kathmandu Valley
Banking low over a glassy pond, prey clutched in its talons. A split-second of raw purpose caught at first light.
Rhinoceros unicornis
◍ Chitwan National Park
An armoured giant grazing the elephant grass of the Terai. Nepal’s great conservation triumph, back from the brink.
Melursus ursinus
◍ Chitwan National Park
A cub rides and clings to its mother through the grassland, one of the hardest, most tender sightings in the wild.
Anthracoceros albirostris
◍ Chitwan National Park
Berry flicked skyward and caught mid-air, the everyday theatre of a hornbill’s breakfast.
Athene brama
◍ Kathmandu Valley
Two amber eyes peering through the canopy, found only by holding still long enough to be found back.
The Collection
30 photographs