About me

I enjoy capturing and sharing my perspective of nature, landscapes and people. I am as captivated by color as I am mesmerized by the shades of gray.

At age 7, I was given free rein to use a family ‘heirloom,’ the ugly, boxy Kodak Brownie (which I still treasure) loaded with an 120 Agfa black and white roll film. Over the years, while still growing up in India, my family indulged and financed my hobby on a series of film gear — the rangefinders Agfa Click II and Yashica Electro 35 GSN followed by the SLRs Yashica FX7 and Nikon FG20.

Upon moving to the US in the late 80s from my native India, I continued to feed my passion on 35mm film SLRs. The revered all-manual Pentax K1000, and later, the Pentax ZX-10 with its auto and program modes served well to advance my skill. Fast forward to early 2000s, I stepped first into the digital world with various Canon and Nikon point and shoot cameras before getting more serious with the DSLR-like mirrorless micro-4/3rd Lumix DMC-FZ50. This progression naturally led to DSLRs such as the APS-C Canon T3i followed by the full frame Canon 6D and then on to the full-frame mirrorless Sony a7II. While a good part of this journey for me can be chalked up to my love of (affordable!) gear, an undercurrent of transformation was taking place — that of the connection to the subjects, their images and the stories I was attempting to tell.

My ongoing transformation as a photographer is supported by family - first by my father and mother, and now by my wife and son. The exercise of identifying and capturing images of nature, landscapes and portraits inspired me to appreciate the awesomeness of the forces of nature around me. Also, this transformation went hand in hand with my growing appreciation of the process to faithfully narrate the story that my mind sees. For an image to be of value it must stimulate an emotion worth remembering and a story worth telling.