Pheasant-tailed Jacana, by Saniar Rahman Rahul

Taken at Baikka Beel, a wetland in the eastern part of Hail Haor, the pheasant-tailed jacana is a jacana in the family Jacanidae. They are identifiable by their wide feet and claws, which enable them to walk on floating vegetation in shallow lakes, their preferred habitat. The pheasant-tailed jacana is capable of swimming, although it usually walks on the vegetation. The females are more colourful than the males and are polyandrous. They breed in India, Southeast Asia, and Indonesia.

Canon 7D | Exposure 1/500sec @ f/7.1 | ISO 200 | Focal Length 300mm | Bias -1/3 EV
Pheasant-tailed Jacana, by Saniar Rahman Rahul

Award Winner: Photo of the Day | April 09
Award Score: 66 (Value 11.5, Clarity 12, Composition 18, Style 12, Skill 12.5)
Photo of the Day Award Category: Wildlife Photography
Photograph Location: Baikka Beel, Srimongol, Moulvibazar, Sylhet | 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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