The 3rd edition of Canon Wild Clicks - India's Only Live Photography Contest was held in Kanha National Park. With nearly 40 contestants of various age groups from over 13 cities, the participants competed against each other for 3 days in the wild heaven on Kanha in Madhya Pradesh. At the start of the event, the contestants were given 5 themes - Mammals, Avionic Wonders, Landscapes, Macros, Abstracts. The contestants battled the acute winter, unseasonal rains and morning fogs to create some superb wildlife images across all categories. Wildlife photographers and members of Nature Wanderers Expert Panel - Shivang Mehta & Tejas Soni - helped the participants in selection of the images for submissions. The final judgement was done by an esteemed panel of judges : Ganesh H. Shankar & Mike Pandey.

Overall Winner : K.R. Deepak - Won a Canon 7D and gift vouchers from Camps of India, Manfrotto, SanDisk

Abstracts Winner : Divyanshi Jain - Won gift vouchers from Camps of India, Camp Kohka Pench, Manfrotto, SanDisk

Avionic Wonders : Shantanu Prasad - Won gift vouchers from Camps of India, Camp Kohka Pench, Manfrotto, SanDisk

Macros : K.R. Deepak - Won gift vouchers from Camps of India, The Ranthambhore Bagh, Manfrotto, SanDisk

Landscapes : Jitinder Chadha - Won gift vouchers from Camps of India, The Ranthambhore Bagh, Manfrotto, SanDisk

Mammals : Saurav Mahanta - Won gift vouchers from Camps of India, The Ranthambhore Bagh, Manfrotto, SanDisk

A concept planned and developed by Nature Wanderers, Canon Wild Clicks is one of the most exciting and thrilling competition to be a part of. The event brings all amateur photographers on a common platform where they shoot under the same shooting conditions. This is a test of a photographer's shooting skills and his sensitivity towards moments. The past 2 editions of Canon Wild Clicks were held at Corbett (2010) and Ranthambhore (2011). Season 3 of Canon Wild Clicks was held at Kanha National Park in January 2012. 

Over the years, Canon Wild Clicks has grown as a competition thanks to our participants who come up with amazing photographs during the 3 days of the event.

The underlining aspect of CWC is that it's all about witnessing and capturing those fine, intrinsic wildlife moments... it's not about the equipment you use but your ability to think out of the box when you are put under a defined time frame and shooting scenarios.

Canon Wild Clicks is the opportunity for an amateur to showcase his skills and get instant gratification from wildlife experts.

India’s ace wildlife film-maker, the winner of 3 Green Oscars and one of the strongest custodians of Indian wildlife, Mike Pandey has been associated with Canon Wild Clicks for the past 2 seasons. In addition to being a part of the honorable jury, Mike has also played an instrumental role in helping Canon and Nature Wanderers is giving fresh format flavors to this contest. Mike’s presence at the venue of the contest and his amazing wildlife experiences is a big boost for the participants! Visit www.mikepandey.org to know more about Mike and his innumerable feats.

Ganesh H. Shankar is a poet at heart and he writes visual poems using the medium of photography. His approach to nature photography is two fold - an artistic expression of nature mostly using monotones or creative expressions of nature wherein he tries to make unique perspectives of nature.

He started photography with an inexpensive point-and-shoot camera in 1993. Ganesh loves the unexplainable art of colors, colorless, forms, shapes, light... and the challenge of characterizing interactions of those attributes which touches minds of those who love the art of light.

You may visit his site www.naturelyrics.com to see some of his creative and artistic collections.