About

Hi there! Welcome to my website. If you’ve read the blurb on top, you’d already know that I like to shoot people, animals, places and even buildings. I have always hoped that such a violent description will get me media coverage. But megalomaniac aspirations aside, I built this website to showcase my photography and learning in this field. You’ll also find stories about places I have been to, and photography related opinion and tutorials. The internet has always provided me valuable and useful information – and this is my bit for returning the favor.

Photography is a hobby that has grown to consume most of my time. I am mostly self-taught, and that is because when I started off there were no weekend photography workshops like these days. And the city I live in, Bangalore, has plenty of photo-ops. Photography evolved from an artistic streak that I had since childhood. I was a bad painter, and my parents never shared my rock star aspirations.  Photography also fuels my inquisitive nature, and I have managed to keep this hobby for almost 6 yrs now. Now that is saying a lot

Along the way I have made many new friends who are also interested in photography, and I have managed to pick up an assignment or two. This puts me in a category of advanced amateur/semi-professional, although honestly I couldn’t care less. I have several thousand photos on this website, and I believe that ought to be good enough to showcase my skill.

My work

My primary genres of interest are landscape, nature (macros mostly) and street photography. I love open spaces. I love watching nature in all her glory. I love the great outdoors. I feel super charged by beautiful vistas. I am intrigued by beauty in the small and the vast. I love traveling to new places. And I love to capture action as it happens around me. In short, I am an inspired photographer and I love to capture the world that inspires me.

To see what equipment I own, head over here.

To see high quality archival prints of my work, I’d be glad to meet with you. To see my online portfolio, click here.

I am also available for assignments. Contact information to your right, on this website.

The journey

Through the years I have been a silent spectator to the changing landscape of hobby photography. These days every other 20 something owns a Digital SLR. Quite a number of photographers who started off  around the same time as I did are now conducting photography workshops, or have become part time professionals.  There is both good and bad in this. I like the fact that we now have more photo clubs, workshops, gatherings and a new market for candid matrimony related photography. But on the downside, there is a lot of  mediocre work floating around. Unlike earlier, when photography was limited to the ‘real’ professional, digital has made it easy to ‘spray and pray’ and later ‘play’ in Photoshop. All in the name of creative freedom. Which brings me to some home truths that I’d like to share:

• Taking good photographs is not only about freezing a beautiful scene that presents itself in front of you. There is planning, preparation, execution and post-production involved. And when the scene actually presents itself, you have only a fraction of a second to make numerous decisions about how to capture that frame.
• The greatest competition in photography is not from the good photographer. It is from the bad photographer with good marketing skills. Because professional photography is more about having the right contacts, a gift of the gab and the ability to tolerate self-promotion. You have to sell yourself, before you can sell your work.
• Some photographers shoot for the joy of it. Some shoot for fame and fortune. Neither defines talent.

And finally, being a hobby photographer does not mean I can give suggestions on which camera to buy. My knowledge of cameras is pretty much limited to SLRs and I have no clue about the latest and greatest point n’ shoot in the market. However I find myself being asked for suggestions by colleagues, friends and relatives far too often.