When Sankar Sridhar puts iris and ink to work, he captures the stark beauty of the amazing places he travels to. Places that may soon never be the same again as progress blasts its way through nature and centuries-old habitat.

This isn’t a special effect or a man in levitation. This Zanskari man, like many of his ancestors have done before him, is actually walking on the thin ice that is the Zanskar River in Ladakh. Any day now, this will be a road.

See some of Sankar’s photographs at http://irisandink.com/ . He promises more soon. In fact, see if you can persuade him to put them up — and if you’re as concerned about nature as he is, write to him sankar dot sridhar at gmail dot com