Wild Witness

When it comes to photography and the art of taking photos, Nagendra is one of those photographers whom I look up to. When ever I meet him, the discussion effortlessly moves to photography and I end up looking at the amazing photographs taken by him, listening to the story behind each frame & also his wonderful adventures, experiences in the wild.

I’ve known him since I was a kid; I have grown up listening to his adventurous journey as an amateur bird watcher running behind the birds in deciduous forests in the outskirts of Bangalore to an amazing wildlife photographer capturing the wild life in dense forest all over India. To be honest, he is one of them who inspired me to step into the world of photography.

If you are around during this period, have a sneak peek in to the amazing world of wildlife.

PS: In case if you meet him on the exhibition, say hello from me. Sad that I can’t be there for this exhibition :(

I had the privilege getting caricatured by artist friend and fellow blogger Bellur aka RK aka Ramakrishna. Check his blog Rambling with Bellur - for more wonderful, creative cartoons, caricatures and much more.

"Clicks" clocked fifty posts yesterday. It's been a wonderful run so far - trying to take photos on a regular basis and few photos here & there from the archive when new ones gets dried out. Here is a random image from the first 50 posts -

I just realized that this blog is it's little over 5 years old now. I still remember the day I started this blog in first week of November 2004. I published my first post and kept visiting the page every 10 minutes, eagerly looking for someone to comment on the post. It has been a long journey so far - I got to learn quite a lot of things, met interesting people and made friends.

"Scribbles of my yesteryear", was my blog title during the initial days and then changed to 'avalokana'. This was the only blog for sometime (which is in dormant state now - thats different story). When I failed to write something on the blog, I resorted to posting photos. And when I created dedicated blog for photos, 'avalokana' went to dormant state again. Then came 'Moody Monday' weekly photo to the rescue for some period, but not for long.

I started many more blogs after 'avalokana', all of them except for travel blog & photo blog died soon. But the first love remains with a post once in a blue moon or once in two blue moons :)

At this point of time when I read my post, it makes me laugh, the way I've written. Go read it, have a laugh. But don't slap me :)