Picture Perfect

G.V. Prasad, Co- chairman and Managing Director of Dr. Reddy’s, is a passionate nature photographer and loves nature-watching. “I like to watch nature, particularly bird watching,” says Prasad. Even the lockdown has not proven to be a hindrance as some of the regular visitors to his verdant garden at his home in Hyderabad’s Banjara Hills include the Indian robin, coppersmith barbet, sunbird, golden oriole, black kite and sometimes a kingfisher. His Sony Mirrorless, armed with 200 to 600 zoom lens, ensures they stay back.

Photography piqued Prasad’s interest for the first time as a 12-yearold when he was gifted a Kodak camera. Eight years later, he was the proud owner of his first professional camera, a Nikon EM. He learnt the nuances of photography on his own and by experimenting. But for Prasad and Suresh Rayudu Chitturi, his friend and an equally keen photographer, it is more a passion than a hobby today. Both travel each year on nature-watching expeditions be it across India – from Tadoba in Maharashtra, Kanha National Park in Madhya Pradesh to Srisailam in Andhra Pradesh – or globally from Okavango Delta in

Northern Botswana to the Maasai Mara National Reserve with its preserved savannah wilderness in south-western Kenya along the Tanzanian border.

The duo has even been to the Arctic region around the North Pole. Last year, Prasad took off to Alaska in the US, capturing rare treasures such as moose, caribou, bears, salmon, whales, bison, puffins, jellyfish to the breathtaking views of the glaciers and fjords, mountains and lakes. Observation skills, patience and just the simple joy of capturing the moment has sustained his interest in nature photography.