I had been thinking of this question - Why do I love taking pics? Why do I shoot? Why do I take the "pain" of carrying cameras and lenses when pics can be taken using phones? These are questions from my near and dear ones to prick my brain to see what is it that I like about photography. This led me to a train of thoughts, I gave quite a bit of time to think about it - when riding to office, when taking a walk alone and so on. It has always been about seeing the smile on my loved ones when I show them a pic that I had taken, that takes them back to the time (it was taken). There is a lot of chaos in our lives (everyone's lives), lot of fear (of many uncertainties). For me, it is when I see this pics and when I share them with my loved ones, I see Hope. I see happiness. Hope of having a great time ahead, Happiness that there was such a time, which was else forgotten in our busy-ness of the lives. I live for seeing such emotions. I live t...
Las Vegas, the name of this place remin d s us of extravaganza, joy, fun , gambling , casinos. When we deci ded t o go to Las Vegas, we had another train of th ou ghts - How will we take care of Sloka in the flight? What about her food? Would they allow ki ds in cas inos? Either wa ys, we de cided to go. For me, it was to take the ladies o ut of the home, even though I kn ew that all th e s truggle always woul d be for Samee (except the fact of cooking for me and her) So, the d ay came, we had planned for the minimal things to do there , star ted our way to the airport. We now have a favor ite place for Sloka in the airport and this time, s he was way into that place. All excited to play in thi s are a. No w, it has become a ritual for us to take a p ic of S loka (an d Sameera) at this location. This is when we went to NYC Getting read y to go out! Our evening walk On the way to shar k reef aquariu m - singi...