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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.

Field Notes from Iceland

6 months ago / Adventure / Nature / Photography / Travel / Trip - Africa

I so distinctly remember the feelings, the emotions that I went through the first time I had come to the...

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Field Notes from Iceland

1 year ago / Adventure / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Asia

How cold will -25 deg C be ? I will be able to give you an idea in my next...

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Field Notes from Iceland

1 year ago / Adventure / Conservation / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Trip - Africa

Last year, a rhino was killed every 15 hours. Let’s zoom out and find out what that actually means. At...

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Field Notes from Iceland

2 years ago / Adventure / Nature / Photography / Travel / Trip - Polar regions

Wildlife photography trips are full of long hours with nothing to do. Our ship was steaming away to the next...

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Field Notes from Iceland

2 years ago / Adventure / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Polar regions

There are times when you watch a scene unfold in front of you, right from the start to the very...

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Field Notes from Iceland

2 years ago / Adventure / Creative Musings / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Polar regions

“ This is a graveyard for drones” Jens, our guide, announced with a chuckle. This was in 2022, during my...

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Field Notes from Iceland

2 years ago / Adventure / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Polar regions

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

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Field Notes from Iceland

2 years ago / Adventure / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / trekking / Trip - Polar regions

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

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Field Notes from Iceland

3 years ago / Adventure / Nature / Photography / Travel / Trip - Africa

Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night...

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Field Notes from Iceland

3 years ago / Adventure / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / trekking / Trip - India

I would have loved to have spent a few quiet days after the trek. Any trek gives you time to...

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Field Notes from Iceland

3 years ago / Adventure / Nature / trekking / Trip - India

It all started rather innocuously. As it usually does. A good friend, S, suggested we do a trek. Something light...

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Field Notes from Iceland

3 years ago / Adventure / Nature / Photography / trekking / Trip - India

“ Oh so where is your next trip ? “ “Goa in August.” “ Oh but it would be raining.”...

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Field Notes from Iceland

3 years ago / Adventure / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Europe

I am back home. From near zero and sub zero degree temperatures, straight into the boiling cauldron that Bangalore has...

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Field Notes from Iceland

3 years ago / Adventure / Nature / Photography / Travel / Trip - Africa

Out in the wild, the drama is constant. Every minute is a sequence in the never ending dance for survival....

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Field Notes from Iceland

4 years ago / Adventure / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Polar regions

There are 19 species of marine mammals in Svalbard. 3 species of terrestrial mammals. And a whopping 237 species of...

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Field Notes from Iceland

4 years ago / Adventure / Nature / Photography / trekking / Trip - India

And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul - John Muir My footsteps gave...

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Field Notes from Iceland

4 years ago / Adventure / Nature / Photography / Travel / Trip - Polar regions

First off, sincere apologies about missing the last scheduled newsletter. I was far away, in a desolate place, totally disconnected...

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Field Notes from Iceland

4 years ago / Adventure / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Trip - Africa

Its an oft repeated cliché that every moment in the wild is a fight for survival. A see saw battle...

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Field Notes from Iceland

4 years ago / Adventure / Nature / Photography / Travel / Trip - India

“ So, do you live here or are you visiting ? “ “ I have come for a visit.” “...

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Field Notes from Iceland

7 years ago / Adventure / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - South America

I shifted uncomfortably in my seat. I could feel a tiny rivulet of sweat start its journey from the back...

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Field Notes from Iceland

7 years ago / Adventure / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - South America

“ We got a sighting.” The handset crackles, voices exchange messages and those are the magic words from Fabiano, uttered...

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Field Notes from Iceland

7 years ago / Adventure / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - South America

Transpantaneira. The highway to nowhere. For some reason, the story of this highway has always fascinated me. Somewhere in the...

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Field Notes from Iceland

7 years ago / Adventure / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Trip - South America

‘ So, where is your next trip ?” “ Brazil.” “ Oh wow !! The Amazon ?” “ No, to...

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Field Notes from Iceland

8 years ago / Adventure / Nature / trekking / Trip - India

Once you have lived with mountains Under the whispering pines And deodars, near stars, And a brighter moon, With woodsmoke...

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Field Notes from Iceland

8 years ago / Adventure / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel

‘ Yay !! We did it !!” We exulted in the sheer delight of having crossed the last big rapid....

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Field Notes from Iceland

8 years ago / Adventure / Travel / trekking / Trip - India

I paused for a break. Ahead of me … steps. Lots of steps. Downhill fortunately. Going downhill can be hell...

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