No Safety Shot – The Cost Of Greatness
I am thinking about what makes an image, Great. It’s World Photography Day today, and at 11:30 pm.. and I am trying to pull together my intuition, and put words to it. There are a lot of good images. But…
The House of Pooran – Building My Sovereign Ai
My Mac mini arrived ahead of schedule — and, more importantly, before the price hike. The joy of saving on the price somehow fully compensated for the pain of the price of that 24GB Mac mini with the M4 Pro…
I drowned my drone. And AI fixed me instead.
With my new drone purchase. I had walked into a world of chaos, fear and anxiety that all drone owners grapple with. I felt that dread that all drone beginners face, the moment when drone is flying outside of line-of-sight…
Obituary: Lt Col Dharam Pal Balyan, A lessons in transformation (10 Oct 1946 – 21 Oct 2023)
The news of his death came to me as a message in the middle of a work video call. It felt like a bad joke as I read the one-line message from my mother. She was in too much of…
Heart of Kumbh – Stories of Faith and Connections
Kumbh still throbs with vitality, an unbroken link to ancient India. It is a spectacle of faith, a grand parade of gurus, and a living showcase of tradition and culture. Here, the spiritual seeker mingles with the seers, photographers with…
IIM Calcutta – Reunion and Reflections (Batch of 99)
We were meeting again at the IIMC campus after 25 years. It was the batch that graduated in 1999, back when Kolkata was still called Calcutta. About 130 of us from a batch of over 350 had flown in from…
Shutter Story – Leh Gompa
I spotted this buddhist Gompa at large distance as I was walking up towards the Leh Palace. It was an instinctive shot, and I had a 70-200mm f/2.8 lens with my NikonZ8 that day. The dramatic backdrop of the mountain,…
Shutter Story: Lion Of Nairobi
The most exciting shots in the wildlife safari come with some exciting circumstances too. I had spent half a day in the Nairobi national park, and it almost closing time. The half day safari had not been too exciting till…
Photo blog on Ladakh: High Passes and Cultural Crossroads
Its was less than a five kilometres hike, but it has left me winded because of the altitude, and a cough that I have been nursing for a week. Just a few days ago I was living at sea level…
A photoblog on Johannesburg – Hoping for hope
I relaxed as I landed back in Mumbai from Johannesburg, I wasn’t hyper-vigilant anymore. I could trust that I wont be mugged at a traffic light and there wont be a day-light car jacking, even though I could still fall…