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“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”
– Anthony Bourdain
The memories of what I took from my travels. Here.
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Feb 7
The Magnificence and the Tragedy of the Rhino's horn
Last year, a rhino was killed every 15 hours. Let’s zoom out and find out what that actually means. At the start of the 20th century,...
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Jan 24
The Oddity that is the Giraffe
Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction. Geraldine Jewsbury A giraffe IS such...
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Jan 10
Born to be Wild and Free
“ The Earth does not belong to us; we belong to the Earth.” – Marlee Matlin A couple of months back I made a much looked forward to...
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Dec 13, 2024
Craig, the Gentlest of Giants
The thrill of coming close to a gentle giant, Craig, the super tusker
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Nov 29, 2024
Keep that camera aside !
I froze. Even the slightest movement from me could destroy the moment. To my right, around ten to twelve feet away, there was a...
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Nov 15, 2024
Well...Why Not ?
Many had asked me over the last year or so. I used to recoil at the suggestion. Me ? Now ? At this stage ? Nah…of course not. I...
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Nov 1, 2024
Preparing for a trip
Things have changed. There used to be a time when I would approach a trip in a blasé manner, insouciantly setting off with the biggest...
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Oct 18, 2024
Getting to know the King of the North
Wildlife photography trips are full of long hours with nothing to do. Our ship was steaming away to the next place. We were in one of...
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Oct 4, 2024
High Drama at the Waterfront
There are times when you watch a scene unfold in front of you, right from the start to the very end. Like when you know that the cheetah...
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Sep 20, 2024
The Eternal lure of a Sunrise...and a Sunset
An ode to the timeless magic that a sunrise and a sunset create
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Sep 6, 2024
Look around you
Continuing with my aim to get guest posts for you each quarter, I had requested Shreeram MV, an ace photographer, a good friend and one...
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Aug 23, 2024
Conversations in my head
How do we take a photograph ? No, not the physical act of focusing and pressing the button. As we watch a scene get ready to unfold...
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Jul 26, 2024
A windfall of bears !
“ Bear in the water…behind us !!! “ That line set up an unprecedented, scarcely believable few hours for us. But, before I get into...
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Jul 12, 2024
Flying a drone...my first time
“ This is a graveyard for drones” Jens, our guide, announced with a chuckle. This was in 2022, during my last trip to Svalbard. I...
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Jun 28, 2024
What are the odds ?
What are the odds of seeing a polar bear ? It’s not easy to sight a polar bear. In fact, its darn difficult. Let me explain. There are an...
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Jun 13, 2024
Random Thoughts from a Ship's Deck
Phototrips can be bloody tiring. I reached home a little after noon. A journey that was a tale of delayed flights, missed connecting...
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May 31, 2024
Hello, Arctic…here I come !
As you read this, I would have either just reached the northern most inhabited place on this earth – Longyearbyen – or set off aboard the...
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May 17, 2024
Go Slow
I thought it would be good for everyone who reads these posts to occasionally hear from others who are also in this interesting area of...
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May 3, 2024
More from Happy Accidents
I had recently written about how I had run into problems with accessing all my images which were scattered across multiple hard drives....
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