Field Notes from Iceland
"There is no such thing as completion. There are only stages in an endless progression. There are no final outcomes...
Field Notes from Iceland
I arrived to find myself surrounded by the lion-tailed macaques. The entire property was swarming with them as they...
Field Notes from Iceland
"It’s..it’s…it’s The Peeping Tom!!!" — Yukiru Sugisaki Unhurried. That’s the best word that captures the flight of a...
Field Notes from Iceland
“If you could stop the shouting of your own thoughts in your ears, you might be able to hear the...
Field Notes from Iceland
Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time. ...
Field Notes from Iceland
One of the most useless questions an adult can ask a kid is – what do you want to be...
Field Notes from Iceland
"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it." Daniel Kahneman The...
Field Notes from Iceland
The wind howled. Long and impatient. Icy cold. The snow hurled itself across the earth and air. The tiny little...
Field Notes from Iceland
Time – this is the third and final installment of my three part series on how I looked at Mara...
Field Notes from Iceland
This is the second of three posts on what I tried to capture in my last visit to Masai Mara....
Field Notes from Iceland
This is the first of three posts on what I tried to capture in my last visit to Masai Mara....
Field Notes from Iceland
Bloody. Brutal. Horrific. Every scene around him was just that. One typical war zone scene after another. His eyes stung...
Field Notes from Iceland
I am not sure exactly when this question started bothering me a lot more than it had in the past....
Field Notes from Iceland
I was in a bit of a funk. A vague sense of restlessness had crept up in me. ...
Field Notes from Iceland
"In art, everything is possible. But everything is not necessary." - Arvo Part A photograph is the capture of a...
Field Notes from Iceland
In 2025, it is estimated that we humans will take around 2 trillion photos. As of now, all of us...
Field Notes from Iceland
Nothing was working. The swans were not exactly being cooperative. Most of them were busy snoozing, heads tucked in deep...
Field Notes from Iceland
“ A good photograph must be waited for. You don’t chase it, you let it come to you. You just...
Field Notes from Iceland
The place looked straight out of a fairytale book. I walked down the gently sloping path from the ticket counter....
Field Notes from Iceland
‘ How did you feel when you saw 80,000 birds in Norway at once? Did the sound of those birds...
Field Notes from Iceland
Many had asked me over the last year or so. I used to recoil at the suggestion. Me ? Now...
Field Notes from Iceland
Things have changed. There used to be a time when I would approach a trip in a blasé manner, insouciantly...
Field Notes from Iceland
I’ll tell you how the sun rose - A ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news...
Field Notes from Iceland
Continuing with my aim to get guest posts for you each quarter, I had requested Shreeram MV, an ace photographer,...
Field Notes from Iceland
How do we take a photograph ? No, not the physical act of focusing and pressing the button. As we...
Field Notes from Iceland
“ This is a graveyard for drones” Jens, our guide, announced with a chuckle. This was in 2022, during my...
Field Notes from Iceland
I thought it would be good for everyone who reads these posts to occasionally hear from others who are also...
Field Notes from Iceland
Recently, a photographer, I admire and follow, David DuChemin, put out a short reel on Insta. He talked about the...
Field Notes from Iceland
" We don't make mistakes. We have happy accidents" -Bob Ross Disaster had struck. My desktop was not reading many...
Field Notes from Iceland
What is most critical for getting a good photo ? Your gear ? The opportunities that come up ? How...
Field Notes from Iceland
Creativity is work ethic. This sentiment was the main theme in one of David duChemin’s blog posts and one that...
Field Notes from Iceland
There was a quote I had read that stayed with me. ‘ The eye is always caught by light, but...
Field Notes from Iceland
I saw one of those standard Insta reels the other day where the photographer walks across to a complete stranger...
Field Notes from Iceland
Pushkar. I can’t remember exactly how Pushkar got imprinted on my mind. Of course, it was a usual quiz question...
Field Notes from Iceland
Yeah, it’s that time of the year. The moment I almost dread. But also a useful exercise . The process...
Field Notes from Iceland
Our chopper swung sharply to the left, after speeding ahead of the running zebras and, as a single unit, the...
Field Notes from Iceland
“ Are those elephants ?” “ No…just a mirage.” Followed by a chuckle. That was our guide, Lenny. “ What...
Field Notes from Iceland
It started in the most innocuous way. It is often rather difficult to spot a polar bear. The distant white...
Field Notes from Iceland
The other day I had a conversation about an image I had posted on Insta with my good friend R....
Field Notes from Iceland
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson When I was writing...
Field Notes from Iceland
Its difficult when you get overwhelmed. Your mind gets crowded up, you are unable to think straight, you are looking...
Field Notes from Iceland
"Life is short, break the rules." ~ Mark Twain I was mildly confused. I was standing at the Mandovi beach,...
Field Notes from Iceland
We speed on the highway. A weary landscape lies around us. It lies vast and unattended, hot and searching for...
Field Notes from Iceland
With photography, I always think that it’s not good enough” – Lynsey Addario I agree. Still, one should look at...
Field Notes from Iceland
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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