About me

I opened this blog to express what I see around through my eyes and my camera eye using text or/and picture as the medium. Though I would love to be regular I do not promise to be punctual as I usually find the life to be too busy. Chances are there that I may find myself regularly irregular.. :-D. Let me start it with a brief self introduction.


I am a Software Engineer by profession. Photography and Travel have been my passion since I was a kid. For me both are coexistent. I am a nature lover and without any doubt Nature and Wildlife are my favorite genre. I shoot people very rarely, you can say when there is one of my favorites in the background or foreground! I often forget my surroundings when I carry the camera and focus only on subjects. This may be one reason why some of my non-photographic friends don't love to go out with me.. jk. I usually try to be a perfectionist - I find the object, watch it from all possible angles, lock the target and fire. I normally shoot by single frames although I have set it to multiple burst in my camera. Having said that, I wouldn't recommend that as you might loose beauty of action pictures sometimes by sticking on to this plan. But, I prefer doing this myself taking up this risk as a challenge. The more I love photography I am lazy at post processing. Out of the hundreds of shots I click after missing thousands due to my strange habit and considering the chances of many of them not coming good anywhere near my expectation when tens of them come to my computer, I process only about half of them, say, 5-10 from a trip. I believe that I am no where in digital post processing and have to spend some time learning that better.

My growth in photography was gradual - from a Canon fixed focus film camera to a digital compact Sony DSC-P100 and then to a semi-manual model DSC-H1, again from Sony, and finally to the most awaited upgrade to a DSLR - D40x, it was an entry-level DSLR from Nikon - about three years ago. Nikon D300S is the first of my next targets but is still in the wish list as the funds are low!Finally, I made it - I own a D300S now..!! 


Presently, my gears include:
1. Nikon D-300S DSLR
2. Nikon D-40x DSLR
3. Nikkor 18-55mm standard zoom kit lens
4. Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G ED
5. Sigma 150-500mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM
6. Tokina 12-24mm f/4
7. Lowepro Computrekker camera bag
8. Velbon Sherpa 750R tripod 
9. Nikon ML-L3 IR remote controller 
10. Meike MB-D10 battery pack grip for D-300S
11. Additional EN-EL3e batteries for D-300S
12. 77mm multi-coated Hoya filter for 12-24mm Tokina
13. Couple of 52mm filter-sized UV filters
14. A CPL of 52mm filter-size
15. Cokin Filter system with a 2-stop ND and a Gradual ND filters