Prithvi Mandava

ICICG Badminton Tournament - U16 Boys

ICICG
Calgary Telangana Association
Calgary Marathi Association
Gujarati Mandal of Calgary
Rajasthan Association of North America - RANA Canada
Malayalee Cultural Association Calgary

Patience rewarded 🪷

Fun fact: Dragonflies are the most efficient hunters on the planet—with a success rate of around 95%. For comparison, lions succeed about 25% of the time, and great white sharks around 50%. These ancient predators don’t chase their prey; they calculate an interception point and arrive there at the exact moment their target does. Basically, they’re running attack algorithms that military engineers still study today.

300 million years of evolution will do that.

Sony A550 | Sony 70-400mm G
1/2000 sec, f/8, ISO 800

Caught this robin mid-hunt with a fresh catch 🐛

Here’s something most people get wrong: when you see a robin tilting its head on your lawn, it’s not listening for worms—it’s actually looking for them. Their eyes are positioned on the sides of their head, so they have to tilt to get a good look at the ground with one eye. That classic head-cock is pure visual hunting, not audio surveillance.

June 2025
📷 Nikon Z6iii | Nikon Z 600mm PF
1/1250 sec, f/6.3, ISO 5000

Caught this beauty at Rotary Park today ❄️
Black-billed Magpies are so common around Calgary that it’s easy to overlook them—but when you catch that iridescent blue-green shimmer in the right light, you remember just how stunning they really are.
These clever corvids are year-round Albertans, thriving in our winters while most sensible birds head south. Gotta respect the hustle.

📷 Nikon Z9 + Z 600mm f/6.3 PF