vivek sekar

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return. — Leonardo da Vinci

Tag: Photography

northern lights

Ecstasy

the bright arctic sun goes down and brings about the light blue dusk into the horizon. and the temperature follows suit by going down a few notch below zero. the skies calm down with an eerie gradient from bluish green to blue and dark navy blue. and the breeze coming in from the sea across to [...]

pilgrimage

its pilgrimage time of this year, and along with karthick i am heading to the ritualistic Norway. This time the places are everything  that between Oulu and Narvik, Bodo, Salthdal. spanning across Finland, Sweden, Norway. This has become a rudimentary start post before every trip, with the follow up posts never seeing the light of [...]

upgrades

i have now added a Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM lens to my collection along with 3 ND filters, polarising filter, warm filter, UV filter for the new lens, a larger camera bag to go. also the Creature and Bird photobook by Andrew Zuckerman. Each has been a worthy addition and money well spent, except [...]

another year another christmas plan

Christmas is just a week off and as usual i am leaving Finland for some warmer retreats. i have pretty much been sold the lonely experience it is when in Finland for christmas, everything stops and everyone celebrates with their families. So this time the haunts for Christmas for me are : Amsterdam, France and [...]

mention

2 photos in particular themes, got a mention in a twitter contest at onemansblog.com along with trey ratcliff. i tweeted one photo on day 1 and was suprised at it getting a mention, because it was not the best (according to me)  of photos that i sent. but still. 2 nd edyta, tweeted the mentioned [...]