Ramblings from Dwarka

Photography at Sunrise A lot of my friends marvel at my photos and think it is because of the camera gear I use. Indeed, I use a fairly advanced camera system, but not necessarily the best one. In fact the Canon 6D I use is an entry level camera that is quite old now. The technology it uses is no patch on the current crop of cameras and use a lens that is nearly 10 years old. I must also confess that there are much better photographers than me who use even older gear.  Don't believe all the mega pixel numbers and the technology boasts of companies. There are multiple secrets to creating great photos, however, camera is not one of them. In fact this statement is true for any art form. If the gear was the secret to success, Mukesh Ambani should be the greatest cricketer of India and not the owner of the most successful IPL franchise. Let me let you into the secrets of creating some great landscape photos in this blog. 1. Get up early This is probably the toughest task for many. The g...

Preview of my Coffee Table book After a long gap I have begun rambling again on this blog. For quite sometime, my social media writing was restricted to facebook, which somehow constraints my writing. Then came along my book, For the Love of Mountains. I have more or less finished writing the book and the manuscript is with my editor. I discovered that writing a book is far more empowering and fun than social media posts. Blogging is something in between. As my fellow speaker Rajesh Srinivasan said recently, book writing is like test match cricket, blogging is like one dayers and social posts are like T20. So I decided to restart the one day format as well. This post is an advanced introduction of my book. For long I wanted to publish my photos. However, I realized that while the photos look great, there are stories behind each of them that never get told. Many of them are very interesting local stories of the region that are unknown to most of us city dwellers. So I began writing a co...