Many photographers have a dream image they’re dying to capture.

Personally, he has a soft spot for tigers.

I have a strange connection with them, he tells My Modern Met.

Bengal Tiger in front of Ranthambore Fort

They give me the power to move on.

When I see one, I just can’t take my eyes off it.

They ooze power and magnetism and are breathtaking to see in the wild.

Bengal Tiger at the Ranthambore National Park

They inspire a sense of fearlessness and majesty.

They are so focused and unstoppable.

So it should come as no surprise that Madan’s dream photograph involved a tiger.

Bengal Tiger at the Ranthambore National Park

Seizing the opportunity, he asked the guide to veer in that direction.

It’s there, surrounded by the cold winter morning fog, that he finally got his chance.

My fingers were numb from the cold and I couldn’t feel them anymore.

Bengal Tiger at the Ranthambore National Park

It was the moment I had been waiting for as long as I could remember.

It felt so unreal as if it was a mystic dream with a tiger crossing our world.