Living the desert life
I just realised that I have shared very little about my experience of last year’s visitation to the Desert National Park. As I reminisced on the days I traveled along the roads and dunes of Rajasthan, here is a small blog …
Refreshed and refactored
I made 2 visits to the Western Ghats this year and photographed the life of rain forests in pouring rains. Coming from a tropical country like India we yearn for monsoons to magically transform the land with rich greens that would otherwise would be barren and charred because of intense heat the tropical summer spews. Though this year the monsoons has largely failed in this part of the world, it was quite some fun photographing during rainy days.
Manifestos of a nature photographer
Below are few questions, as a Nature Photographer, I ask myself everyday. I still don’t have a single ‘silver bullet’ answer to each of these questions. Even if I try to, there are lots of overlapping thoughts, tonnes of gray …
An angle of reflection
This is going to be a long post. Please bear with me. When I started off with photography, it was sheer passion with which I walked the wild. It was like meditation – walking the wild with single minded focus and …
A random survey
Here is a small survey that we are doing as part of Landscape Wizards and it will be open till 20th Nov 2010. I request all the readers/followers of my blog to take the survey. Click here to take the survey …
A Simple image backup strategy for photographers
Digital asset management is a broad area of management for media ‘assets’ that are in digital form and includes ( though not completely! ) the process of ingest, cataloguing, storage and retrieval. Though storage is just a part of the …
Behind the scenes
Place: Yana It is always interesting to view and enjoy the images or clippings behind the scenes. During my visit to the western ghats, I also visited Yana – a beautiful place that has two massive limestone rock formations that rise …
Art of telling stories – Nature Tales
When we talk about nature photography, we see two prominent and common routes taken by the majority of the photographers – one is photographing the wilderness and its elements for the sole purpose of documentation and the other is Nature …
The next level
Have been thinking about some easy ways to be a better artist. This was during my initial days of photography. What I have learnt over the years are few invaluable lessons. Some of them I would love to share. Going …
Monsoon trip to western ghats
As per metrological data, August ( 2nd or 3rd week) is the time when south west mosoon break even happens here in the Indian sub-continent. That’s the best time to make some beautiful images of both landscapes and macros, if …