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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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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...
Oct 18, 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...
Oct 4, 2024
The Eternal lure of a Sunrise...and a Sunset
An ode to the timeless magic that a sunrise and a sunset create
Sep 20, 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...
Sep 6, 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...
Aug 23, 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...
Jul 26, 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...
Jul 12, 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...
Jun 28, 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...
Jun 13, 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...
May 31, 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...
May 17, 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....
May 3, 2024
Post Processing : How much is right ?
Recently, a photographer, I admire and follow, David DuChemin, put out a short reel on Insta. He talked about the adverse reactions that...
Apr 19, 2024
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....
Apr 5, 2024
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...
Mar 22, 2024
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...
Mar 8, 2024
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....
Feb 23, 2024
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...
Feb 9, 2024
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...
Jan 26, 2024
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