A brief note on photography done for the Heritage theme sets on Navratri 2009 at Summair Sports Club, Jamnagar.

For this Heritage theme, Mr. Sameer Shah started photography on 23rd August 2009 and completed on 14th Sep 2009.

He shot more than 300 images but used 176 images for this project.

Darbargadh panorama image has been made of 13 images.
Khambhalia Gate Building panorama image is made of 6 images.
Khambhalia Steel Gate panorama image is made of 11 images.
Summair Sports Club building panorama image is made of 16 images.

All the images of carvings have been shot around Khambhalia Gate, Mandvi Tower, Burdhan Chowk
and Sajuba Girls High School.

A report in Times of India Newspaper

Photographer Sameer Shah

He is famous for his bird in flight photography.

Semi-finalist in BBC-Natural History Museum Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 as well as 2010.
His 5 images are Semi-Finalist in 2010.
In 2009, BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year his two images have reached semifinal stage out of 43,000 images
from world's top professional photographers of 94 countries.
Out of 7 images being Semi-finalist, 6 are of Bird in Flight.
The Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is owned by the Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine.
www.sameershah.com

He has been requested by Wildscreen and Arkive of UK (www.wildscreen.org.uk and www.arkive.org)
where HH Prince Phillips of UK and Sir David Attenborough are Trustees, to donate images of
IUCN Red List species birds like Black-necked-stork, Oriental-darter, Marsh-harrier, Greater-spotted-eagle etc.,
and has donated fourteen images. Most of them are in flight.