“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.”
A few weeks back, I stumbled upon a conversation the author Anne Lamott had with David Perell. The thought provoking...
One of the most useless questions an adult can ask a kid is – what do you want to be...
"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it." Daniel Kahneman The...
The wind howled. Long and impatient. Icy cold. The snow hurled itself across the earth and air. The tiny little...
Time – this is the third and final installment of my three part series on how I looked at Mara...
This is the second of three posts on what I tried to capture in my last visit to Masai Mara....
This is the first of three posts on what I tried to capture in my last visit to Masai Mara....
Bloody. Brutal. Horrific. Every scene around him was just that. One typical war zone scene after another. His eyes stung...
I am not sure exactly when this question started bothering me a lot more than it had in the past....
I was in a bit of a funk. A vague sense of restlessness had crept up in me. For a...
"In art, everything is possible. But everything is not necessary." - Arvo Part A photograph is the capture of a...
In 2025, it is estimated that we humans will take around 2 trillion photos. As of now, all of us...
Nothing was working. The swans were not exactly being cooperative. Most of them were busy snoozing, heads tucked in deep...
“ A good photograph must be waited for. You don’t chase it, you let it come to you. You just...
The place looked straight out of a fairytale book. I walked down the gently sloping path from the ticket counter....
‘ How did you feel when you saw 80,000 birds in Norway at once? Did the sound of those birds...
Many had asked me over the last year or so. I used to recoil at the suggestion. Me ? Now...
Things have changed. There used to be a time when I would approach a trip in a blasé manner, insouciantly...
I’ll tell you how the sun rose - A ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news...
Continuing with my aim to get guest posts for you each quarter, I had requested Shreeram MV, an ace photographer,...
How do we take a photograph ? No, not the physical act of focusing and pressing the button. As we...
“ This is a graveyard for drones” Jens, our guide, announced with a chuckle. This was in 2022, during my...
I thought it would be good for everyone who reads these posts to occasionally hear from others who are also...
Recently, a photographer, I admire and follow, David DuChemin, put out a short reel on Insta. He talked about the...
" We don't make mistakes. We have happy accidents" -Bob Ross Disaster had struck. My desktop was not reading many...
What is most critical for getting a good photo ? Your gear ? The opportunities that come up ? How...
Creativity is work ethic. This sentiment was the main theme in one of David duChemin’s blog posts and one that...
There was a quote I had read that stayed with me. ‘ The eye is always caught by light, but...
I saw one of those standard Insta reels the other day where the photographer walks across to a complete stranger...
Pushkar. I can’t remember exactly how Pushkar got imprinted on my mind. Of course, it was a usual quiz question...
Yeah, it’s that time of the year. The moment I almost dread. But also a useful exercise . The process...
Our chopper swung sharply to the left, after speeding ahead of the running zebras and, as a single unit, the...
“ Are those elephants ?” “ No…just a mirage.” Followed by a chuckle. That was our guide, Lenny. “ What...
It started in the most innocuous way. It is often rather difficult to spot a polar bear. The distant white...
The other day I had a conversation about an image I had posted on Insta with my good friend R....
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson When I was writing...
Its difficult when you get overwhelmed. Your mind gets crowded up, you are unable to think straight, you are looking...
"Life is short, break the rules." ~ Mark Twain I was mildly confused. I was standing at the Mandovi beach,...
We speed on the highway. A weary landscape lies around us. It lies vast and unattended, hot and searching for...
With photography, I always think that it’s not good enough” – Lynsey Addario I agree. Still, one should look at...
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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