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- Tigers have been a passion of mine for my whole life.
Not only are they beautiful, powerful creatures,
but they're also key players in making a healthy ecosystem.
I spend as much time in the jungle as I can,
and I want to see these natural habitats protected.
We need to make sure this endangered species,
and all the diversity around them
can thrive into the future.
My name is Yashas Narayan, I'm a wildlife photographer.
I like to spend most of my time in the jungle
tracking big cats.
I'm in Ranthambore on a mission to track tigers
and photograph them using my Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra.
The Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra has a series of lenses
from ultra wide angle to the super telephoto lens.
Whatever the wildlife photography needs in terms of focal
and it covers everything.
So, usually cats are territorial animals.
So, we as tracker, we know what area they stay in.
On safaris we go to these areas
and we switch off cars at every road,
every junction inside this area.
And we will be waiting to hear warning calls.
We also look out for tracks and signs,
so we look out for pugmarks,
so all these things are crucial while tracking cats.
Wildlife photography can't be scripted.
We could do everything right,
but still end up with no sightings.
You have to be patient and you also have to listen
to what the jungle says.
As we were driving, we heard some more strong warning calls.
It meant a tiger was on the move.
We heard strong warning calls of deer from downhill,
so we rushed here and there are still calls down there,
probably the tiger is moving,
but we don't know in which direction the tiger's moving,
so we just need to wait and see.
So, we are back in the patience game again.
Could the tiger have gone in that direction?
I'm not sure but it's definitely somewhere in this area.
This is all part of the tiger's territory.
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We saw a tiger just walking far off by the foliage
and just came onto the road.
So I record the whole thing on 8K video.
And while the tiger was close to us,
I also had an urge to take pictures
because it's so close to us.
I wanted to take pictures as well,
but I didn't want to miss out on 8K.
So there's a really cool feature on the Galaxy S21 Ultra
called 8K video snap.
And using that feature I actually took a few pictures
while I was recording the video.
So now I haven't missed any photo opportunities
and I've got my footage in 8K.
Look how sharp it is. So beautiful.
The tiger is still on the move.
Okay. Let's try and track the tiger again.
See there's water here.
Tigers are opportunistic hunters.
She spotted a sambar fawn a few meters away.
As soon as she saw this hunting opportunity,
her instinct was to go for it.
She chased the sambar fawn into the (indistinct)
and caught it in the blink of an eye.
Sit sit sit.
- You all right?
- Yup.
Tigers are fierce predators.
In the wild it's a fight for the viable.
What we just saw was world-class, especially the hunt.
It's not easy to see a live hunt.
People wait years together.
We as photographers wait years together,
to see something like this in the wild.
I feel so privileged to have seen this endangered animal
in its natural habitat.
I never take seeing a tiger in the wild for granted
and nor should any of us.
Unless we take steps to prevent it,
chances like this will disappear forever.
Let's work together to protect this magnificent animal.
- Good shot.
- Super. Thank you.