Vinod Sunder—a Bengaluru-based Merchant Navy officer—put in 33 years at sea before bidding farewell to the career in early 2010. After having toyed around with Sony point-andshoots while at sea, he moved to a Nikon D3100 in 2012 and eventually graduated to a Nikon D7000. Still life photography caught his attention and after experimenting, he found his interest to be in tabletop … [Read more...]

Third Quarter Moon Navaneeth Unnikrishnan mostly likes to capture the Milky Way and distant galaxies and nebulaes across the infinite sky. Most of his works are found at  ww.facebook.com/navaneethunnikrishnanphotography1 As told to Tanika Godbole           Waxing Gibbous Moon                                                   … [Read more...]

Meal Together Mohan Gidwani is a nature lover who loves capturing the beauty of nature and wildlife in his images. He is passionate about photography and believes in expressing and showing beautiful sights through this medium. As told to Tanika Godbole Beak Wide Open                                    A close-up Born in 1959 in a family of well-known confectioners … [Read more...]

I was born in Sirsi, a small town in the midst of the Western Ghats in Karnataka. The beauty of the Western Ghats thrills anyone who is a nature lover. I never intended to be a photographer; but I did have some initial experience with cameras. When I became a father, I started clicking photos of my pretty daughter. As any father would do, I too shared her photos with my … [Read more...]

“Photography has always been ‘in our family’, but my real journey in the field began in 2008, when I joined a Certificate Course in Photography at Fergusson College in Pune. Here I learned the secrets of what it takes to compose and capture a good photograph, and realized that photography can have an artistic as well as a commercial aspect. I started out with a focus on … [Read more...]