PhotoBlog

This site also documents my return to photography, one image a day, one story at a time.

My travel kit
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My travel kit

The point of having a interchangeable lens camera is the ability to adapt it to the exact situation you. Your camera can be a portrait beast, a wildlife monster or a street chameleon, just by changing the lenses. Previously I have talked about my wildlife kit, but here I am going to go through my choice for travel!

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The cameras behind the images
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The cameras behind the images

The World Press Photo winners were announced last week, and they are some amazing images there. I strongly suggest you to go and check them out! :) Let me know if there is one you particularly love or hate in the comments!

But this post is not about the image themselves, but the camera used to capture them. Quesabesde.com used the EXIF data from the images to create the following graphic of cameras used by the winning shots!

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5/7 Nature photography challenge
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5/7 Nature photography challenge

Day 5/7 #‎challengeonnaturephotography and something a little different for me, a snake. This is a little bronzeback tree snake I saw scurrying around the undergrowth in the Western Ghats on the boarder of Goa and Karnataka. Wildlife is everywhere in the western ghats, you just have to look! :)

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YIME - Ravi and the sea!
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YIME - Ravi and the sea!

Hey guys, I have been completely overwhelmed by your response to this series, and I am very sorry I won't be able to do all the images submitted. Thanks for your enthusiasm, and I hope you are finding it useful! :)

My next "Your image, my edit" (YIME) is of a seascape by Ravi Nookala, based in Bordeaux in France!

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