Wildlife Photography Award: Blue-eared Kingfisher

Taken at Kaptai National Park, in the district of Rangamati, Bangladesh, this blue-eared kingfisher is darker crowned, with darker rufous underparts and lacking the rufous ear stripe of the common kingfisher. It is found mainly in dense shaded forests where it hunts in small streams mostly in Asia, ranging across the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.

Canon 7D Mark II with 150-600mm | Exposure ƒ/6.3 @ 1/60sec | Focal Length 600 mm | ISO 800
The Blue-eared Kingfisher, by Saniar Rahman Rahul

Award Winner: Photo of the Day | May 03
Award Score: 65 (Value 12, Clarity 11, Composition 17, Style 13, Skill 12)
Photo of the Day Award Category: Wildlife Photography
Photograph Location: Kaptai National Park, Rangamati, Chittagong Division, 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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