Menu

0

Home
Portfolio
- Photographs
- Videos
Journal
- Photo Essays
- Tutorials
  - Astro Composites
About Me
Contact
Shop

Home
Portfolio
- Photographs
- Videos
Journal
- Photo Essays
- Tutorials
  - Astro Composites
About Me
Contact
Shop
0

Your cart is currently empty

Homepage

Welcome to the store

Write a short welcome message here

New Products

The Rolling Blues

Product on sale

₹100.00

Add to cart
LR Templates

₹199.00

Add to cart

the.final.shot

/still, I fly From waves crashing on the tangerin

/still, I fly

From waves crashing on the tangerine shoreline to the mesmerizing seascapes featuring the enchanting flow of water, this 18-part series titled ‘evenings in goa’ is finally coming to its conclusion. The final frame of the series was probably the most challenging ultra-long exposure that I made on this trip. What makes it more challenging than the others you might think. Well, it was the angle of the boat.

It is pretty easy (having made a few now, I can say that, haha) when the scene is two-dimensional i.e. the subject and the background lie in the same plane. When the subject is moving anywhere apart from the 180-degree line of sight, it becomes a bit tricky to make long exposures. The reason is that the waves crash on the boat at different angles and the splashes and waves are much more prominent than when the water would’ve struck the boat from the front.

Still, with some adjustments and tries, I was able to create at least one frame that captured the ultra-long exposure idea of the subject and the background being in different planes. This frame is a combination of 12 frames (1 fast exposure, 11 long exposures) blended while developing the RAW image.

I hope you enjoyed the series and the frames and the prose delivered a feeling. Onto the next series now. It’s called ‘Heritage from my Hometown’. I am trying a new format. Super excited for you all to see it.
__
evenings in goa (18/18)
__
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
#eveningsingoa #ultralongexposure #longexpo_addiction #longexposure_world #longexposure_kings #lookslikeapainting #longexposureoftheday #longexposure_shots #longexposure_india #longexpoelite #longexposurehunter #vagatorgoa #vagatorbeach #goadiaries #newtechnique

/ultra-long exposure While a painting or a prose

/ultra-long exposure

While a painting or a prose description can never be other than a narrowly selective interpretation, a photograph can be treated as narrowly selective transparency. Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are. Photography basically democratizes all experiences by translating them into images.

It not only translates what is visible to the eye of our body but also has the potential of translating what the eye of our mind sees. This enables artists like you and me to create something unique - something that expresses a feeling both sentimental and implicitly magical.

Such is the story of this ultra-long exposure. I had this rough image in my mind of a ship sailing under the dystopian orange sun and I translated it into an image employing the agency of photography. Here’s how I did it:

We all know that the longer the exposure time, the more light the frame has. There’s no way without using really high stop ND filters for anyone to get exposure like these. So I broke the rules. I captured a frame with the boat right below the waning sun with a fast shutter so that it appears frozen. Then to capture the flow, I set the exposure time to the max I could without letting in too much light to render the image useless. Then I shot 14 shots back to back with the same settings. While developing the JPEG from RAW, I stacked all the images and used the statistics calculation to maximize the output of the frames (in layman terms, I blended all the frames together) to achieve this. Let me know in the comments how you liked this technique. If you use this technique then DM your results. I’d love to see them.
__
evenings in goa (17/18)
__
#longexpo_addiction #longexposure_world #longexposure #longexposure_kings #longexposureoftheday #longexpoelite #longexpohunter #longexposure_india #longexposhots #longexposure_official #ultralongexposure #tripotocommunity #sunsetphotography #lookslikeapainting #paintingorphoto #morjimbeach🌴 #beachvibes

/sense of reality Photographs do not simply rende

/sense of reality

Photographs do not simply render reality — realistically. It is a reality that is scrutinized, and evaluated, for its fidelity to photographs. “In my view,” the foremost ideologue of literary realism, Zola, declared in 1901, “you cannot claim to have really seen something until you have photographed it.” Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality, and of realism.

The photographer was thought to be an acute but non-interfering observer — a scribe, not a poet. But as people quickly discovered that nobody takes the same picture of the same thing, the supposition that cameras furnish an impersonal, objective image yielded to the fact that photographs are evidence not only of what’s there but of what an individual sees, not just a record but an evaluation of the world.

This notion has evolved for decades and modern photographers, like you and I, have the tools to turn our vision into reality using the agency of photography. And I have tried my hands at realizing an idea that has been on my mind for quite some time. I have always been fascinated with the idea of solving the visual problem of encapsulation.

Last year I did a project to encapsulate time - remember the 5 phases photograph? This year I wanted to try to encapsulate ‘flow’. This is what led to the creation of ultra-long exposure shots. The end of this series features 3 such frames and I am curious to know your thoughts on this. More on the technique in the upcoming posts.

P.S.- This multiple exposure shot was created using 15 frames.
__
evenings in goa (16/18)
__
shot on @nikonindiaofficial D5200
__
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
#longexpo_addiction #longexposure #longexposureoftheday #longexposure_shots #longexpoelite #longexpohunter #longexposure_india #longexposure_world #longexposure_kings #morjimbeach🌴 #morjimgoa #morjimbeachgoa #lookslikeapainting #impressionism #paintingorphoto #photoorpainting #ig_shotz_le #igpodium #igindia

/work with what you’ve got Before I unveil the

/work with what you’ve got

Before I unveil the final three shots of the series, some sweet ultra-long exposures (which I absolutely love, BTW), here’s a post that reaffirms the fact that the best gear is the gear that you have on you. In 2014, when I witnessed the jaw-dropping beauty of a seashore for the first time. We visited Marina Beach in Chennai and I was dumbfounded at the beauty that lay in front of me. That evening when the sun went down, I had my first stargazing experience by the beach. I took out my phone to capture it and surprise-surprise, all it saw was complete darkness.

I didn’t know about stabilization in detail and my phone didn’t have the f-stop that would have allowed me to capture them anyways. Cut to 2016, I visited the beach again. This time with my camera (I finally saved enough to buy one). I was bubbling with joy and excitement for what I was about to capture. I dialed the settings in and pressed the shutter button. My exhilaration was palpable & very visible through my trembling fingers as I tilted the LCD screen of my camera to see what I had captured. And it was as anti-climactic as it gets - there was no clarity in the image. I tried and tried and tried but to no avail. That night I returned dejected and I made a vow to myself that I will make it work.

And the rest is history. You have seen the crisp star trails and phases of the moon I have captured with my kit lens. That was made possible by learning how to use the environment around me to my advantage and overcome the shortfall of my gear. While I was in Goa, the night reminded me of the moment 6 years back. I was at the beach and I saw these boats guarding the sea and the horizon was decorated with sprinkled stars. It made for an amazing seascape opportunity. Only one problem, there was no moon and that meant I had no light source to cover for the shortcomings of my gear. But this time around I knew better than to return empty-handed and without a shot to remember the night.

And this is how this frame was born. Even though the details are not super clear, I have a frame to remember the night by and I still was able to make things work with a kit lens on a pitch black night.

/flow I gasped in astonishment at the deep blue c

/flow

I gasped in astonishment at the deep blue color of the water. The far-off waves appeared to be cradling air to the lullaby of the sea. And the nearby ones were crashing on the basalt rocks and throwing up droplets and bubbles of spray. After having captured the wide landscapes, I shifted my focus toward capturing the character of the flowing water.

This came with its own set of challenges. I was standing on the beach, facing the horizon, and no matter how high I mounted my camera on the tripod, I wasn’t able to get a good angle to capture the flow. And yes, I wanted to capture the flow, not frozen water (which was pretty easy as you can see in one of the frames of the carousel). So the challenge of stabilization with height was intense. I found a way around it which I am saving for the last 3 shots of the series.

Coming back to this set. I decided to play with the rules and not around them and framed the shots in such a way that I could crop in later to get just the water in the frame. I climbed on some rocks as well. The frames that you see in this post are all B-shots, shots that accompany a primary shot. And I thought these can at least have a post dedicated to them in this 18-part series. So here they are.

Here’s to trying and finding beauty in the most mundane things.
__
evenings in goa (14/18)
__
shot on @nikonindiaofficial D5200
__
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
#water #watercloseup #sea #wavesofblue #wavesofwater #smoothwater #colorsofwater #flowofwater #goa #waterscapes #tightshots #croppedin #beautyinmundane #rarefinds #bluewater #carribeanblue #aztecblue

/let you go What is a memory? The dictionary says

/let you go

What is a memory? The dictionary says that ***Memory*** refers to the psychological processes of acquiring, storing, retaining, and later retrieving information. Focus on the retrieval bit. Do you believe that one can master the art of controlling that process? I don’t. I believe that memory isn’t a choice. It’s a flood. And all we can do is try our best to be afloat until the tide settles.

Nature has this mysterious way of presenting us with physical instances that rattle our psyche. Does it happen with you too that the weather, the way the wind blows, and the fragrance that it carries dictate what occupies the primary real estate of your mind? Like it lifts the barricades and the onslaught of memories drowns you. Most of the time it’s bittersweet. But sometimes, well, we all know how it is sometimes, don’t we?

Do you remember the happiest day of your life? What about the saddest? Do you ever wonder if sadness and happiness can be combined, to make a deep green feeling, not good, not bad, but remarkable simply because you didn’t have to live on one side or the other? This frame is a digital embodiment of that feeling. It transports me to a desolate shore - a place where the physical tides unlock the psychological ones and for a few moments God’s loneliest creation - the human eye - is not alone for it is accompanied by a shadow of the past.

You seem like you are drowning, in the air but that’s just a physical manifestation of holding on when you know that you WILL have to let go. Isn’t that the saddest thing in the world? A comma forced to be a period?

P.S.- Another post title inspired by a song. This one’s called ‘Let you go’ by ‘RY X’
__
evenings in goa (13/18)
__
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
#seastorm #sailingseason #rockonthebeach #rocksofinstagram #shoreline #greenatmosphere #dramaticlandscape #moodygrams #moodyevening #moodygoa #moodysea #moodytoning #moodynature #stormyweather #goatourism #morjimbeach🌴 #morjimgoa #fastshutter #motionphotography #letyougo #ryx #tripotocommunity

/of summers and shores One can’t visit beaches

/of summers and shores

One can’t visit beaches and shorelines to photograph and not be amazed by the buzz. Towers of radiant light soak the sea with their beauty. The vacationers we see all have coconut-brown faces. The burning sun roasts us like nuts in an oven. But the water provides gentle relief.

That’s why we are all drawn toward it. Be it bathing on the shore watching the setting sun, galloping on a banana ride, or parasailing above water as the golden sun caresses our face - these activities make the summer evenings special.

I have tried all these almost every time I visited a beach but this time I thought I’ll be an observer. And these are some of the frames I saw along with my all-time favorite companion, the 3x2 rectangle we call a camera.
__
evenings in goa (12/18)
__
shot on @nikonindiaofficial D5200
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
#travellingthroughtheworld #sunsetactivity #sportsonbeach #beachsports #beachlife #watersports #bananaride #eveningsingoa #goadiaries #vagatorgoa #morjimbeach🌴 #goatourism #swimmingisfun #igpodium #summersunsets #summersingoa #kidsplaying #wateractivities

/setting sun @johngreenwritesbooks has written be

/setting sun

@johngreenwritesbooks has written beautifully about the setting sun:

quote:
A good sunset always steals the words from me, renders all my thoughts as gauzy and soft as the light itself. I’ll admit, though, that when I see the sun sink below a distant horizon as the yellows and oranges and pinks flood the sky, I usually think, “This looks photoshopped.” When I see the natural world at its most spectacular, my general impression is that more than anything, it looks fake.

I’m reminded that in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, tourists would travel around with darkened, slightly convex mirrors called Claude glasses. If you turned yourself away from a magnificent landscape and looked instead at the landscape’s reflection in the Claude glass, it was said to appear more “picturesque.” Named after seventeenth-century French landscape painter Claude Lorrain, the glass not only framed the scene but also simplified its tonal range, making reality look like a painting. Thomas Gray wrote that only through the Claude glass could he “see the sunset in all its glory.”
:unquote

Reading this germinated an urge inside me to try and metaphorize the clichéd beauty of the ostentatious sunset. Although I am not skilled enough to write a definitive paragraph like Mr. Green and this entire series has been my humble attempt at condensing my thoughts on the setting sun via photographs and mediocre prose. Since this is one of my absolute favorite frames of sunset, I felt that it deserved fitting prose, and who better to quote than a celebrated writer like John Green.

Wrapping up this note with lines from another great writer, Anna Akhmatova:

“I cannot tell if the day
is ending, or the world, or if
the secret of secrets is inside me again”

P.S.- I constantly try to learn ways to conjure arrangements of words to describe things that make me feel something and hopefully someday soon I’ll be skilled enough to do so for topics that I feel are too sacred to conduct written blasphemy against.
__
evenings in goa (11/18)
__
shot on @nikonindiaofficial D5200
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
#sunsetsofgoa #sunsetatthebeach #sunset #sunsetphotography #johngreen

/what are the chances If you have been following

/what are the chances

If you have been following my work for some time you’d know that I incorporate human element in my work strictly when it’s adding to the emotion that I want to convey with that frame. And not having models available to pose when I go on photographic expeditions, I rely on the chance encounters more often than not.

This is one such frame. It was a warm spring evening (if there’s even spring on the coastal regions of India, he he :P) and the shoreline was lit up with a sunset-gold glow. The ebbing waves bathed in the warm glow of the evening sun. This was the literal ‘it’ when it comes to golden hours.

Closer to the shore the asphalt black rocks were statice-kilted. I inverted my tripod to frame the rock and the beach shining like earthlight-gold. The soft warm light, the smooth ocean waves, the literal cornerstone of the frame with flowers made for an intrinsic amorous scene. The only piece missing was an ancillary focal point to the frame.

While I was still surveying the corners of the frame to spot an interesting auxiliary, the periphery of my vision detected some movement toward the frame. And then, all of a sudden, two people balanced the frame from the left. The frame had its missing piece and I quickly pressed the shutter button so as to not let this chance encounter slip.

This is also a frame that helps strengthen the fact that you should shoot in RAW to capture the maximum information in a frame. Although setting, still, I was shooting into the sun and yet I was able to recover the details in the rock, even the statice-type flowers on its surface.

P.S.- Another song-inspired caption title. This one’s from Chances by Backstreet Boys
__
evenings in goa (10/18)
__
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
#loversonthesun #seaonsunset #sunsetatthebeach #goldenhourcollective #coupleshoot #goadiaries #morjimbeach🌴 #beachlife #loversonthebeach #couplegoals #lensflare #goldenhoursunset #ishootraw #chances #chanceencounter

/long exposures As Sontag has aptly written- “I

/long exposures

As Sontag has aptly written- “If all that a person does or thinks is of consequence, it becomes arbitrary to treat some moments in life as important and most as trivial.”, and I feel photographers live by this quote. For us, to photograph is to confer importance. Be it an ordinary evening on the beach, for a photographer, it is an opportunity to create something magical.

Here is a short account of me creating something similar. Since I bought my first camera, I have been fascinated by the idea of capturing mesmerizing long exposures. When I ventured into this field, I learnt that you need ND filters for dimming the light reaching the sensor of your camera. As it always happens with people with limited resources, over time I learned the technique that could enable you to do so without the filters but luck and skill have to work in tandem for you to get the result.

After years of trying, I was able to create something that comes close to a long exposure that I so badly wanted to make 8 years back. Hopefully, someday soon I have the resources to afford a filter system and create something even more magical. Until then, we’ll keep on experimenting and learning with what we have.
__
evenings in goa (9/18)
__
shot on Nikon D5200
__
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
#longexpo_addiction #longexposure #longexposureoftheday #longexposure_shots #longexposures #longexpoelite #longexposure_india #longexpohunter #longexposure_addiction #violetsunset #purplesunsets #goa #goadiaries #morjimbeach🌴 #vagatorbeach #nofilterneeded #nondfilter

/another world I am sure you would have imagery i

/another world

I am sure you would have imagery in your heads of what a post-apocalyptic/dystopian/new world would like. Dystopia is usually associated with a futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control. Dystopias, through an exaggerated worst-case scenario, make a criticism of a current trend, societal norm, or political system.

And then there are artists and filmmakers whose visual interpretation of a dystopian society brings mind-hurtling beauty of landscapes, which first freezes the mind and then slowly releases it to hitherto un-experienced horizons of beauty.

And then there is our present-day Earth which produces landscapes that make us feel that the time traveler moved a chair and we got transported into the future (or the past, who’s to say? but let’s stick to the ubiquitous interpretation of dystopia and assume it’s the future. I’ve got to stop drifting away in the sub-text like this :D). Where was I! Yes, you know how it’s like when you witness fierce shafts of color streaking through the thin atmosphere beneath the clouds, and you experience a surge of dopamine.

A similar case happened to me when I was photographing the waning sun the other evening. The atmosphere in front of me changed so dramatically that my hormones couldn’t cope with it and my emotions were suspended in a constant aura of awe. There was no subject available for framing and I was so fixated marveling at the beauty of what lay in front of me that I chose the murky-orange glowing arc as my focal point and made this photograph.

Oh, because it’s me, there’s obviously a noir version. Swipe to see the full landscape.

P.S.- Another frame that has musical inspiration for the title. This one’s based on the song Another World by a band called Gojira.
__
evenings in goa (8/18)
__
shot on @nikonindiaofficial D5200
__
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
#dystopianlandscape #dystopia #dystopian #dystopianart #anotherworld #gojira #landscapesofinstagram #morjimbeach🌴 #morjimgoa #morjimgoa #morjimbeach #goadiaries #goatourism #awesome_earth

/purple skies The slurpy slapping of the sea was

/purple skies

The slurpy slapping of the sea was muted, a metronomic murmur. The waves were merely snoozing, sluggish and slumbering in their liquid robes. They dribbled up to the beach of the sheltered cove, then shuddered and drizzled their sea spray onto its surface, whisking the stones before releasing. A current of cold electricity passed through the air. The wind whipped up. The sea simmered.

Sloshing, swollen to its confined depths, its cavernous bowels stirred, a growling from the fathoms. Suddenly, the sea hissed, washed, polished, and lashed the boat on the horizon before sloshing back far deeper than the eyes could see.

An amethyst-purple tint invaded the late summer skies. The waning sun looked picturesque. And the slow movement of waves looked like an oil painting. That’s when the idea of a long exposure struck me. The light was neither too bright nor too dark to find a perfect exposure and the ND filters weren’t working their charm.

So, I decided to make multiple exposures - 1 fast and 4 slow. Brought them back home and composited them together the wonderland that my eyes witnessed in the moment on that beach.

And yet again, another frame has reminded me of a song while writing. This time it’s Purple by a band called Hollow Coves. Here’s a beautiful couple from the song to wrap this prose up:

“I wish that I could stay here all my life
Just you and I sitting under purple skies”
__
evenings in goa (7/18)
__
shot on @nikonindiaofficial D5200
__
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
#purple #purplehollowcoves #hollowcoves #purplecoastline #purplesunsets #purpleskies #goa #goadiaries #morjimbeach🌴 #morjimgoa #susnetshimmer #boatsofinstagram #longexposurephotography #longexpo_addiction #longexpoelite #ig_shotz_le #longexposureoftheday #global4nature #longexposure_india

/somethings just click Has this ever happened to

/somethings just click

Has this ever happened to you that you listen to a song for the first time and it just hits you right in the feels, and then you listen to it on repeat until either you or your phone’s juice is drained? Or you hear an idea and the voice inside of you says, “Wow! This is legendary.”? Or you watch the trailer of a movie/TV show and you are instantly hooked? Or you take the first bite of a food item and bam! it’s your favorite cuisine now? Or you meet someone for the first time and without speaking, you know you both vibe? Well, the same happens when you are making a photograph.

Just like it is when you are going to meet someone new, your lips go up and down as you are combing your hair as your mouth and brain prepare themselves for the forthcoming conversations. You pause subconsciously and yet so thoughtfully to let a little grammar assemble in your head. And when you meet that person, you just click. And all those gesticulations and faces you made while getting ready for the big moment go in your repertoire of forming human connections for some other day.

The same happens when you are scouting a place to shoot photographs. You recall all the thumb rules, you look for all the right angles, schedule your visit so that the sun is not too harsh or the moon not too light, but when you reach the destination and look through the viewfinder, the landscape presents itself in such a way that in that moment, you don’t care about what you planned beforehand. The idyllic scenery forms an instant connection with the artist inside of you and just like that, you just click the shutter of your camera and the moment is preserved in pixels, forever.

The frame that you see here, is my moment of ‘somethings just click’.

P.S.- There are obvious implications around your subconscious still working and helping you with framing, etc. but that is applicable to all other day-to-day scenarios as well. Us mere mortals are just a function of our brains. Okay, jamming the brakes on this train of thought before it gets dark.
__
evenings in goa (6/18)

/layers I know I have written by photographic see

/layers

I know I have written by photographic seeing a bit too many times. But that’s how much I believe in it. It is an aptitude for discovering beauty in what everybody sees but neglects as too ordinary. So at the risk of sounding like a broken record, I’d say that it means more than just seeing the world as it is, including its already acclaimed marvels; it means to create interest, by new visual decisions.

This sometimes means departing from the tested route of searching for striking images and making a common affair uncommon and striking. Well, obviously it costs in terms of patience and discomfort as this active, acquisitive, evaluating, gratuitous modality of vision is not that easy to practice. One can use the existing techniques in one’s repertoire to entrap the world and show it in a new light just like I have done here by employing the classic photography technique of having a foreground, subject and background in the frame. The technique is usual but the frame looks a little unusual.

Everyday life apotheosized and revealing the kind of beauty that only the camera reveals were my main targets for this series. It is nothing but water, rocks, and a boat but it is also flow, stability, and freedom - a corner of material reality that the eye can’t normally isolate - a parallel of psychology that the mind maybe can relate to.

I don’t know if this makes any sense but yeah, this is what came to my mind when I made this frame.
__
evenings in goa (5/18)
__
shot on @nikonindiaofficial D5200
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
#layers #sunsetsofgoa #sunsetatthebeach #parasailing #parasailingadventure #goatourism #vagatorbeach #vagatorgoa #photographicseeing #susansontag #rockonthebeach #rocksofinstagram #rarerocks #landschaftsfotografie #landscapesofgoa #landscapesofinstagram #waterscapes #seaonsunset
@goatourism @natgeoindia @natgeotravellerindia @cntravellerindia @tripotocommunity @discoverindia.magazine

/mountains at my feet But above all it is the fan $/mountains at my feet But above all it is the fantastic colouring of the beaches that as an image overpowers the minutiae. Above the tide-line the grey rocks are splashed gorse yellow with close-growing lichen, and with others of blue-green and salmon pink. And then there are rocks like these - corrugated slopes of lava, bristling lava cliffs, spouts of metallic clinkers, or tan-brown mini-mountains. If we shrink ourselves to their size, they show us sight to behold. We could see a fracture of golden yellow sand, a gash of burnished walnut-brown rocks and wide slash of sea - a watery wonderland and the beach drenched in a lightning-gold, dawn haze. The horizon itself a thin seam where the canopy of sky and the plane of sea hemmed each other into a line of silver. As if they had been welded into an extended splinter of perfection. That’s what the photographic seeing unlocks. And as has been the unofficial trend with this series, the title of this image is also related to a song. It’s ‘Mountain at my gates’ by a band called ‘Foals’. This is has happened unplanned these frames have somehow reminded me of a song or two. Let’s see how the series progresses. Since we are on the topic of music, here are a few lines from this song that I really like: “Oh, gimme some time Show me the foothold from which I can climb Yeah, when I feel low You show me a signpost for where I should go” __ evenings in goa (4/18) __ shot on @nikonindiaofficial D5200 __ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #goa #morjimgoa #morjimbeach #morjim #morjimbeach🌴 #sunsetsofgoa #sunsetatthebeach #rocksofinstagram #rockonthebeach #landschaftsfotografie #longexpo_addiction #ig_shotz_le #fantastic_earth #susnetshimmer #summersunselection$

/crash I struggle a lot while writing captions fo

/crash

I struggle a lot while writing captions for some frames. It feels like I will rob people of the potential interpretations that the art offers. But then I feel it’s only natural for an artist like me who loves to scribble, to write their interpretation as well. It’s the artistic expression of the undecorated writer in me and not the photographer in me who made this photo.

This set contains a few of those frames. It offers myriad of themes and subtexts to the viewers - one could feel that it represents struggle, or perseverance, or toiling, or growth, or annihilation, or that it’s just a dumb scene of water crashing on the walnut-brown jagged rocks on the beach.

Here’s my humble interpretation:

Far out to sea, waves of pulsing light saturated the sea with gold. Ebbing ever so gently, it looked at peace in its gold and tangerine gown. And then came the sudden surge of currents accelerating the waves and pushing them farther out towards the land than they ever had been. Overwhelmed, the waves hit the sun roasted rocks and break into a million desaturated droplets. Hanging mid-air these droplets are too struck with hysteria that even the brightness of our only natural source of light cannot provide them any saturation. They are unicorn-white and as lifeless as the unicorns themselves. And yet after they fall down, they piece themselves together to form a wave that is ever so luminous and oh so glorious. Now replace that wave with us humans, the current with life and the saturation with self-belief. We fall, We break and yet We persevere. Who’s to say that the lifeform that evolved from fishes, didn’t learn this from water. I won’t over-elaborate and leave this notion here for you to ponder.

Ending the scribble with lines from a song by You Me at Six:

“Crash, fall down.
I'll wrap my arms around you now.
Just crash, it's our time now,
To make this work, second time around.”
__
evenings in goa (3/18)
__
shot on @nikonindiaofficial D5200
__
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
#morjimbeach #morjim #morjimgoa #goa #travellingthroughtheworld #fantastic_earth #awesome_earthpix #ourplanetdaily #fastexposure #magicpict #dreaming_landscape #youmeatsix #crash #wavescrashing

/all I see is red There is a moment in every dusk

/all I see is red

There is a moment in every dusk when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation holds its breath. I am sure you must have witnessed the oh so mesmerizing nature’s color palette whenever you traveled to a coast. I experienced something similar on this trip to Goa - a coastline of monumental grandeur.

A thick sheet of clouds masked the low-hanging sun, lighting up the evening sky with a soft red glow. The long warm light of the evening sun caught the sapphire-blue waves nicely. This phenomenon resulted in the classic teal and orange look presented by nature. Every object the dispersed light hit was lit up with fiery orange - as if it was on fire. Wherever your eyes go, all you could see was red. And that prompted me to make these frames.

This natural contrast has such a soothing effect not only on the eyes but also on the soul. Even though red is sometimes associated with danger-bearing emotions, this red delivers polar opposite feelings. It’s like the sun is trying to get across a message to us, that it does not matter if life breaks your spark down just like these clouds have hindered my brightness. You must collect those bits off the floor. Like wood shavings. And make them into fuel. Into fire. And burn. Bright enough to see. Just like I am - for we know it’ll be as beautiful as this landscape in front of your eyes.
__
evenings in goa (2/18)
__
Shot on @nikonindiaofficial D5200
__
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
#travellingthroughtheworld #fantastic_earth #awesome_earthpix #ourplanetdaily #nationaldestinations #beyondthelands_ #planet_earth_shots #dreaming_landscape #welcometonature #igpodium #ig_shotz_le #thebest_capture #magicpict #goa #goadiaries #vagatorbeach #indianbeach #bbcearth #folkscenery #sunsetsofgoa #sunset

/waves crashing on distant shores of time Since t

/waves crashing on distant shores of time

Since the day I saw the black mirror episode ‘San Junipero’ I wanted to make a composition worthy enough to be titled the same as the main background score of that episode. There’s something about these words that when strung up together makes the phrase anti-parochial. It is a metaphorical ante. When I close my eyes and listen to the soundtrack, I always create a flummoxed yet clean visual of a night-time beach on a distant planet where the sun doesn’t shine and yet the gases in the outer atmosphere radiate neon lights that streak the sky with a dimly lit retro palette.

If I were to draw a parallel from my mental imagery to the physical Anthropocene, it would loosely translate to the visual of the sea looking dozy as it rests and radiates in the afternoon glow. Towers of radiant light soak it with their beauty. The waves crash on the muddy rocks to create white dreamy clouds on land. And the anchor to the scene is a subject that cradles in the scenery.

When I set up my tripod on the butter-gold Vagator beach and looked through my viewfinder, the soundtrack started buzzing in my head. As stems of light drizzled the sleepy sea, the afterglow of the wave crashes produced surreal imagery. I saw limitless water, a boundless sky, and a frame to convert the music in my head into a visual melody. Although one frame cannot completely encapsulate the myriad of possible emotions the phrase can make us feel, hence, I captured a few other frames (3rd and 4th in the carousel) that speak of the underlying themes of vastness and solitude, when you feel a non-existent wind brushing through your face - it is hauntingly beautiful.

/evenings in goa (1/18)

__
Shot on @nikonindiaofficial D5200
__
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
#travellingthroughtheworld #fantastic_earth #awesome_earthpix #ourplanetdaily #nationaldestinations #beyondthelands_ #planet_earth_shots #longexposurephotography #longexpo_addiction #longexposure_shots #dreaming_landscape #othallofframe #goatourism #longexposureoftheday #igpodium #longexposure #longexpo #longexposures #ig_shotz_le #amazing_longexpo #longexpoelite #thebest_capture #magicpict #vagator #goa #goadiaries #vagator

Did someone say crazy? Well, does a plan made on a

Did someone say crazy? Well, does a plan made on a tissue and chasing a bus that is running away with all your luggage while you are rolling in the back of a tempo traveler sound crazy to you? If yes, then you are reading the correct post.
When the travel restrictions lifted completely, the longing traveler inside of me and my childhood friends wouldn’t hear a thing until we packed our bags and went to the mountains. We were sipping coffee while gazing at a purple sunset when I picked up a tissue and started drafting the plan. And before we knew it, we were standing at the foot of an angel-white mountain. All we had for a plan were the mountains we have to climb and rest, well, we were going to play by the ear. Our first crazy surprise came when we are at the base of Kheerganga. A group of descending trekkers told us about the black ice situation (ice melts due to the summer heat) at the top and that our trekking shoes won’t hold. This meant that we now had to trek down 4kms, get the shoes and trek back up to start our actual trek. This detour hurt our schedule but we got the shoes and a guide. It was getting dark so our guide recommended us a shortcut that made our lungs experience a brutal thirst for air - it was a 70-degree inclined climb. We were able to summit and descend safely.
As we started our journey to our next trekking spot, we had another crazy surprise waiting for us. When we stopped for lunch, the local bus started the journey without us and took with it our luggage consisting of but not limited to a DSLR, a GoPro, a tripod, 2 lenses, a laptop, and a guitar. Our survival instinct kicked in and we asked the local 'daala walas' to help us chase the bus while we continuously tried contacting the destination bus stop. What followed was a high-speed chase between a local bus and a local traveler with us rolling in the trunk and hanging to anything we could find for our dear lives. After a 30-minute thrilling chase, we were able to catch up with the bus. Quick and sensible decisions made in high-pressure situations made this trip adventurous and memorable for us.

#mycrazysummerstory #cleartripbigtravelsale
#tripotocommunity #cleartrip #triptoremember

They say that change is the only constant. Everyon

They say that change is the only constant. Everyone in their mid-20s and early-30s have come to a point where they or their close friends are starting a new phase of their lives. And this change not only stirs a lot of emotions inside us but also poses some thought-provoking questions, like,
will we still see each other regularly?
what happens to the decade-old gang?
was this our prime?
are we a moment or a lifetime?

An internal monologue turned to video, this short film is an attempt to channel those emotions and translate those feelings into something we all can relate to. It's my own way of giving those thoughts a voice and I hope this form of expression strikes a chord with you.

Copyright 2021

Hey, right click is disabled on this website

AllEscort