Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) — Indian photographer Jagdeep Rajput is interested in photographing wildlife, with an emphasis on large mammals and birds in particular. When he visited Keoladeo National Park in India, Rajput was able to document an amusing scene that combined the two.
The photographer stood at the spot where a sarus crane had laid an egg in its nest.
And the photographer recalled the situation in an interview with CNN in Arabic, and said: “As this blue bull approached the nest, the crane, the longest flying bird in the world, opened its enormous wings and attacked the bull”.
And after hitting the camera button at the right time and place, the photographer was able to document this hilarious image that reached the final of the 2022 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.
Instead of seeing a chase between the two beings, the image shows what the Rajputs described as a “Pegasus”, the flying horse from Greek mythology.
The image amazed all who saw it and some saw that its realism made one believe it had been edited through an image editing program.
And the photographer confirmed: “It (the photo) presented an optical illusion in an almost perfect way that amazed people.”
45 years ago, photography was just a hobby for an Indian, and his father also had a passion for photography. But this hobby has developed over the years into a passion for the Rajputs.
