Friday, 12, May, 2023. Calangute, Goa. 7.30am. A short while ago I had brewed my coffee, unlocked the door leading to the backyard, ...
Focus Stacking the Odds!
Achieving optimal focus is paramount to obtaining sharp images. Most modern cameras, even the ones bundled on mobile phones, have auto-focus ...
Goa: A Day with the ‘Tigers’
September 2017. We needed to be in Goa for a day. Unfortunately, commitments in Mumbai made it impossible to club a few extra days on either side ...
“Birds from my Backyard”: a pictorial coffee table book based on birds in and around my farmhouse in Goa.
I have ancestral property that is situated on a hill just outside a village in Goa. As a boy I have a vague recollection of it being a dark, dense ...
Double Spotted Spiny spider (Gasteracantha mammosa)
Double-Spotted Spiny Backed Spider (Gasteracantha mammosa)...Huge name for such a tiny spider! Click here to learn more.... ...
Birding on Socorro Plateau and Pilerne Lake, North Goa.
I was in Goa for a couple of days at the end of May and did a morning session of birding at Socorro Plateau and Pilerne Lake. Apart from the ...
Photography: Then and Now
It did cross my mind when doing the article on “Dad’s Cameras” that it would make tedious reading, especially for those not ‘into’ photography. I ...
More images
Got myself a new lens for my camera (Canon EF 17-40mm f/4 L) and spent the whole next day (which, incidentally, was Holi, the Festival of Colour) ...