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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

3 months 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 / Nature / Photography / Travel / Trip - Africa

There are cubs and there are lion cubs. Watching any cub is a tug at your heart - to see...

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Field Notes from Iceland

4 months ago / Nature / Photography / Travel / Trip - Africa

The soul is healed by being with children            Dostoevsky “There’s a cheetah in hunting mode.”...

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Field Notes from Iceland

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

Then mock not the African kopje But take off your hat to the same The patient, impartial old kopje The...

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Field Notes from Iceland

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

Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time.                        ...

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Field Notes from Iceland

5 months ago / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Africa

Serengeti. Say the word, loudly. Doesn’t it roll off the tongue in a manner that conjures up images of something...

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Field Notes from Iceland

9 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

9 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

10 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

10 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 / 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

2 years 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 / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Trip - Africa

Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction. Geraldine Jewsbury...

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Field Notes from Iceland

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

I looked up in awe. There he stood, tall and majestic, unconcerned about all us puny beings scattered around him....

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Field Notes from Iceland

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

I froze. Even the slightest movement from me could destroy the moment. To my right, around ten to twelve feet...

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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

3 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 - 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 / 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 / Nature / Photography / Travel / Trip - Africa

“ I just want to see them. I don’t care if I can’t make a good photo. I just want...

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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 / 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 / Nature / Photography / Trip - Africa

He stood deep in the shadows. Silent. Unhurried. He badly needed a drink, but experience had taught him that its...

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Field Notes from Iceland

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

It was dark outside, an inky darkness in a slow, seductive dance with the light fog. We bumped along, occasionally...

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Field Notes from Iceland

4 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 / Nature / Photography / Travel / Trip - Africa

"Chongo might have crossed the river with his brothers!!" That was the news that we heard. From a fairly reliable...

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Field Notes from Iceland

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

Male lions. They get all the attention and take all the glory. With their flowing, impressive manes, their battle scarred...

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Field Notes from Iceland

4 years ago / Nature / Photography / Trip - Africa

I like to think that for many years, around campfires and in the cosy comforts of living rooms of homes...

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Field Notes from Iceland

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

“Mara ? Again ? ” How does one explain ? Of course, no two visits to the wild anywhere in...

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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

7 years ago / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Trip - Africa

She crouched. Low. Body tense. Poised for motion. Eyes locked in on a single Thomson’s gazelle calf that was grazing...

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Field Notes from Iceland

7 years ago / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Trip - Africa

Siligi. It meant, ‘ The Dependable’. A better name couldn’t be there for a cheetah mom with six cubs. Siligi...

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Field Notes from Iceland

7 years ago / Nature / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Africa

When we first saw them, they were two tiny dots, one much smaller than the other, in a sea of...

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Field Notes from Iceland

8 years ago / Photography / Travel / Trip - Africa

The trip to Kenya was long in the ‘must do’ list. A couple of years we had made all the...

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Field Notes from Iceland

8 years ago / Photography / Photography thoughts / Trip - Africa

We were in a bit of a quandary. We had spent 7-8 days looking at the wildlife across different spots...

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Field Notes from Iceland

8 years ago / Photography / Photography thoughts / Trip - Africa

Not every minute, not every incident in the wild is packed with pulsating, adrenaline filled action. Not every opportunity for...

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Field Notes from Iceland

8 years ago / Photography / Photography thoughts / Trip - Africa

I stretched myself, rolled my shoulders, and raised my hand to stifle a yawn. I looked behind me and most...

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Field Notes from Iceland

8 years ago / Photography / Photography thoughts / Trip - Africa

I was anxious. Restless. We had reached the Masai Mara the previous day after lunchtime. A quick lunch and we...

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Field Notes from Iceland

8 years ago / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Africa

Masai Mara. I was finally here. I have been planning this visit for at least five years. I have read...

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