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…
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…
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,…
Photoblog – A Rabari Village in Rajasthan
The life in the village looks simple, but has its own complexities. There is a strict social code which governs most things in the lives of the Rabari tribes of Rajasthan. This code of conduct decides how they dress, what they…