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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“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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- Aug 23
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
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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- May 31
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 3
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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- Apr 5
Happy Accidents
" We don't make mistakes. We have happy accidents" -Bob Ross Disaster had struck. My desktop was not reading many of my hard drives....
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- Mar 22
When the mind rules...
What is most critical for getting a good photo ? Your gear ? The opportunities that come up ? How creative you ‘naturally’ are ? ( Don’t...
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- Mar 8
Bharatpur's magical sunsets
It doesn’t happen suddenly. It also doesn’t happen at the same time. You first notice it in the waters. One moment they are contemplative...
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- Feb 23
Learning to See
Creativity is work ethic. This sentiment was the main theme in one of David duChemin’s blog posts and one that made me sit up and think....
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- Feb 9
Foggy Delights at Bharatpur
Bharatpur is bewitched. At least, in winter. Here, you don’t tumble out of a cupboard into a Narniaesque world. Instead, its a slow and...
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- Jan 26
Trippin' on LSD - Light, Shadow and Dust
There was a quote I had read that stayed with me. ‘ The eye is always caught by light, but the shadows have more to say ‘ ( I just...
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- Dec 15, 2023
Picking my top 2023 images
Yeah, it’s that time of the year. The moment I almost dread. But also a useful exercise . The process of choosing my top images makes...
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- Dec 1, 2023
My moral issues with aerial photography
Our chopper swung sharply to the left, after speeding ahead of the running zebras and, as a single unit, the zebras took an immediate U...
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- Nov 17, 2023
At the feet of a Super Tusker
“ I just want to see them. I don’t care if I can’t make a good photo. I just want to get the opportunity to see them.” These were my...
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- Nov 3, 2023
In search of Giants
“ Are those elephants ?” “ No…just a mirage.” Followed by a chuckle. That was our guide, Lenny. “ What about those ?” “ Bushes.” Now it...
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- Oct 20, 2023
"But...we got the caracal !"
Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle...
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- Oct 6, 2023
A Giraffe walks into a bar...
He stood deep in the shadows. Silent. Unhurried. He badly needed a drink, but experience had taught him that its better to be cautious....
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- Sep 22, 2023
Meet…The Bakarwals of the mountains
I would have loved to have spent a few quiet days after the trek. Any trek gives you time to think during those long walks alone, ensures...
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- Sep 8, 2023
Trekking from Kargil to Kashmir
It all started rather innocuously. As it usually does. A good friend, S, suggested we do a trek. Something light and easy, nothing...
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