Achieving optimal focus is paramount to obtaining sharp images. Most modern cameras, even the ones bundled on mobile phones, have auto-focus ...
Background images, July ’18
The theme of this month's background images is 'Feathers'! The images showcased here are three highly colourful but yet very different views of the ...
Of Birds, Butterflies and other Beauties
A landmark occasion had the family matriarch and her brood head to Goa in the last week of May 2018. Pre-monsoon thundershowers had driven the ...
Goa. 8th April, 2018.
I'm writing this piece cooped up in the stuffy confines of the living room at the farmhouse when I'd much rather be out on the front porch where it is ...
Bhitarkanika – The Amazon of India
I was in my consulting rooms with a couple of colleagues when, purely by chance, one of them mentioned that the other specialised in arranging trips ...
Armchair Birding at OMH, Ganeshgudi
At 3 a.m. on the 23rd of January 2018 my alarm went off to remind me of my flight to Goa. The plan was to fly to Goa and from there travel by road to ...
Nashik, Maharastra: Opening the innings of 2018!
January 2018. Vanessa and I cashed in on a long-standing invitation to visit a privately owned vineyard in Nashik, Maharastra. It was a trip that I ...
A Day of Giveth and Taketh
The magic of birth and the inevitability of death are, for every other living creature on this planet, part and parcel of the same package called ...
Spectacular New Zealand (Part 1)
This is the first part of our fabulous trip to New Zealand. Click here: Spectacular New Zealand (Part 1): Queenstown to Te Anau ...
Australia. October 2017
In October / November 2017, we clubbed a family wedding in Sydney, with a 3 week vacation in Australia and New Zealand. I've just posted a blog on the ...