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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

1 day ago / Conservation / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Travel / Trip - Asia / Trip - India

Unhurried. That’s the best word that captures the flight of a hornbill. It was late in the afternoon by the...

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Field Notes from Iceland

1 month ago / Creative Musings / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Africa

“If you could stop the shouting of your own thoughts in your ears, you might be able to hear the...

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Field Notes from Iceland

3 months ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Africa

A few weeks back, I stumbled upon a conversation the author Anne Lamott had with David Perell. The thought provoking...

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Field Notes from Iceland

4 months ago / Creative Musings / Photography / Photography thoughts

One of the most useless questions an adult can ask a kid is – what do you want to be...

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Field Notes from Iceland

6 months ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Trip - Europe

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it." Daniel Kahneman The...

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Field Notes from Iceland

6 months ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Trip - Europe

The wind howled. Long and impatient. Icy cold. The snow hurled itself across the earth and air. The tiny little...

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Field Notes from Iceland

7 months ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Africa

Time – this is the third and final installment of my three part series on how I looked at Mara...

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Field Notes from Iceland

8 months ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Africa

This is the second of three posts on what I tried to capture in my last visit to Masai Mara....

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Field Notes from Iceland

8 months ago / Creative Musings / Photography / Photography thoughts / Trip - Africa

This is the first of three posts on what I tried to capture in my last visit to Masai Mara....

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Field Notes from Iceland

11 months ago / Creative Musings / Photography / Photography thoughts

Bloody. Brutal. Horrific. Every scene around him was just that. One typical war zone scene after another. His eyes stung...

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Field Notes from Iceland

11 months ago / Creative Musings / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel

I am not sure exactly when this question started bothering me a lot more than it had in the past....

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Field Notes from Iceland

1 year ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - India

I was in a bit of a funk. A vague sense of restlessness had crept up in me. For a...

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Field Notes from Iceland

1 year ago / Creative Musings / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Asia

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

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Field Notes from Iceland

1 year ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Africa / Trip - Asia

In 2025, it is estimated that we humans will take around 2 trillion photos. As of now, all of us...

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Field Notes from Iceland

1 year ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Trip - Asia

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

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Field Notes from Iceland

1 year ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Trip - Asia

“ A good photograph must be waited for. You don’t chase it, you let it come to you. You just...

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Field Notes from Iceland

1 year ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Trip - Asia

The place looked straight out of a fairytale book. I walked down the gently sloping path from the ticket counter....

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Field Notes from Iceland

1 year ago / Creative Musings / Photography / Travel

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

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Field Notes from Iceland

2 years ago / Creative Musings / Photography / Photography thoughts

Many had asked me over the last year or so. I used to recoil at the suggestion. Me ? Now...

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Field Notes from Iceland

2 years ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel

Things have changed. There used to be a time when I would approach a trip in a blasé manner, insouciantly...

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Field Notes from Iceland

2 years ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel

I’ll tell you how the sun rose - A ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news...

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Field Notes from Iceland

2 years ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel

Continuing with my aim to get guest posts for you each quarter, I had requested Shreeram MV, an ace photographer,...

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Field Notes from Iceland

2 years ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Africa

How do we take a photograph ? No, not the physical act of focusing and pressing the button. As we...

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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 / Creative Musings / Photography / Photography thoughts

I thought it would be good for everyone who reads these posts to occasionally hear from others who are also...

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Field Notes from Iceland

2 years ago / Creative Musings / Ethics / Photography / Photography thoughts

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

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Field Notes from Iceland

2 years ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - South America

" We don't make mistakes. We have happy accidents" -Bob Ross Disaster had struck. My desktop was not reading many...

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Field Notes from Iceland

2 years ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Trip - Africa

What is most critical for getting a good photo ? Your gear ? The opportunities that come up ? How...

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Field Notes from Iceland

3 years ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Trip - India

Creativity is work ethic. This sentiment was the main theme in one of David duChemin’s blog posts and one that...

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Field Notes from Iceland

3 years ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Trip - Africa

There was a quote I had read that stayed with me. ‘ The eye is always caught by light, but...

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Field Notes from Iceland

3 years ago / Creative Musings / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - India

I saw one of those standard Insta reels the other day where the photographer walks across to a complete stranger...

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Field Notes from Iceland

3 years ago / Creative Musings / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel

Pushkar. I can’t remember exactly how Pushkar got imprinted on my mind. Of course, it was a usual quiz question...

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Field Notes from Iceland

3 years ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel

Yeah, it’s that time of the year. The moment I almost dread. But also a useful exercise . The process...

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Field Notes from Iceland

3 years ago / Creative Musings / Ethics / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Africa

Our chopper swung sharply to the left, after speeding ahead of the running zebras and, as a single unit, the...

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Field Notes from Iceland

3 years ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Africa

“ Are those elephants ?” “ No…just a mirage.” Followed by a chuckle. That was our guide, Lenny. “ What...

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Field Notes from Iceland

3 years ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Trip - Polar regions

It started in the most innocuous way. It is often rather difficult to spot a polar bear. The distant white...

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Field Notes from Iceland

3 years ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Trip - Europe

The other day I had a conversation about an image I had posted on Insta with my good friend R....

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Field Notes from Iceland

3 years ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Europe

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

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Field Notes from Iceland

3 years ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - India

Its difficult when you get overwhelmed. Your mind gets crowded up, you are unable to think straight, you are looking...

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Field Notes from Iceland

4 years ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - India

"Life is short, break the rules." ~ Mark Twain I was mildly confused. I was standing at the Mandovi beach,...

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Field Notes from Iceland

4 years ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - India

We speed on the highway. A weary landscape lies around us. It lies vast and unattended, hot and searching for...

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Field Notes from Iceland

4 years ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel

With photography, I always think that it’s not good enough” – Lynsey Addario I agree. Still, one should look at...

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Field Notes from Iceland

7 years ago / Creative Musings / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel

The eloquence of light Straight off…the heading for this post is not an original one. A few days back, while...

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