The refreshing coolness of the air was what I first registered as I opened the door and stepped out onto the verandah. The joyous awareness of the musical symphony the birds were creating followed a second later.   That insouciant lad whistling gaily in the happy knowledge of the fact that he is going to be skipping school today ? That was the Malabar whistling thrush.   That pedantic knocking of a labourer going about his daily dreary tasks ? That was the barbet.   Then the

I was in a bit of a funk.   A vague sense of restlessness had crept up in me.   For a variety of reasons, all very genuine and nothing I...

"In art, everything is possible. But everything is not necessary." - Arvo Part A photograph is the capture of a micro second frozen in...

“ We were so far north in Japan that we could actually see Russia .”   That was my favorite oh so casually dropped line after our Japan...

Nothing was working.   The swans were not exactly being cooperative. Most of them were busy snoozing, heads tucked in deep under their...

“ A good photograph must be waited for. You don’t chase it, you let it come to you. You just need to be attentive, present and open.”   I...

‘ How did you feel when you saw 80,000 birds in Norway at once? Did the sound of those birds flying at the same time remind you of some...

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...

An ode to the timeless magic that a sunrise and a sunset create

Phototrips can be bloody tiring. I reached home a little after noon. A journey that was a tale of delayed flights, missed connecting...

As you read this, I would have either just reached the northern most inhabited place on this earth – Longyearbyen – or set off aboard the...

I had recently written about how I had run into problems with accessing all my images which were scattered across multiple hard drives....

Recently, a photographer, I admire and follow, David DuChemin, put out a short reel on Insta. He talked about the adverse reactions that...

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....

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...

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...

The other day I had a conversation about an image I had posted on Insta with my good friend R. R : That image you posted…the profile of...

I admit, I felt a sense of both, deep satisfaction and relief that night as I went over my images. It had been a long, long day and one...

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson When I was writing my goals for my last...

There are occasions when it all neatly falls into place. Where you don't need words to tell a story, to paint a picture, to spin a yarn....