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Oct 2, 2022 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
So I picked up photos I shot a year ago, out of a whim. And I was struck by how many keepers I had. (Photo slang for how many photos I believed were worthy of processing and uploading as against blurred/out of focus/plain bad shots that need to be trashed)
I was surprised because I have done the Hoysala temple circuit many times; come back disappointed with how little I can shoot inside the temples. High ISO doesn’t help much when light conditions are like this and oddly placed electric lamps throw harsh spotlight at random places.
Aug 12, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
It’s far more convenient to blame others for failure than introspect about the quality of your work. It’s laziness at best, manipulative at worst.
One of the first things you do to change things around is to take accountability for your work. If it sucks, it sucks.
People have been ‘cancelled’ on social media for far less on every side of the political spectrum. But that’s probably done far more to help their outreach and publicity than otherwise. It’s my hunch. I have no data.
Jul 10, 2022 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
A bird’s eye view of the birding scene on a wet monsoon morning outside Bangalore city (thread)
8 am scene. So cloudy, gloomy and wet that this grey francolin refused to wake and shake themselves up. No birdsong. Which meant we had to play ‘spot the bird’ in the lush green vegetation and as in this case, on the ground as well.
Jul 29, 2020 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
While India remains the last hope for wild tigers, "70% of world population in India" doesn't mean much when they are extinct almost everywhere else, sadly. It's a fragile situation when one country(itself with a fragile ecology) has to ensure a miraculous rescue for the species.
A side note: that "roar" is a friendly call to a family member. It's really really hard to capture a tiger roar. They rarely ever give out the full-powered, earth-shaking, sky-rumbling angry roar that is stuff of legend. I still don't know what can piss off a tiger that bad.
Mar 21, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Staying at home, isolation is not fun for most people. Add to boredom, anxiety, the panic we are exposed to through 24-hour news and second-by-second updates on social media, the stress can be hard to manage. It’s time to pay attention to mental and emotional health.
Learn something new from books and online courses - new language, new skill. Tutor kids online and help them keep up with lessons. Practise a long forgotten art or learn a new one. Doodle, paint, build toys, learn coding. Anything that you enjoy enough to immerse yourself in.
