"Over the years I’ve been asked for advice, especially from younger photographers, on just about everything you could imagine. The obvious things come up, like exposure settings, composition, what equipment I use, how I process my work, how I get published. Then there are the esoteric questions like, “What were you feeling when you took this shot?” Man, I’m 61. I can barely remember what I had for breakfast. I do my best to answer thoughtfully in ways that are relevant and helpful, but honestly, I’m not sure how effective or useful it is. I think all too often we let ourselves get bogged down in the details, the minutia, looking for shortcuts or magic bullets. Too much thinking, too much analysis, can be paralysing. There is no substitute for just getting out there and shooting and remembering why you picked up a camera in the first place. You picked it up because it was fun.
The best photographer out there is the one having the most fun. Follow your own creativity, your own creative vision, your own passion and desire to create. Trust yourself. As long as you love what you’re doing, everything else will come with time."
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‘ “Wildlife Sojourns” ‘ is a company that I and my wife Zankhana Mehta have founded. As a couple, we have been visiting various national parks and sanctuaries of our country since 2001. In all these years we have acquired thorough knowledge about each and every sanctuary and the wildlife seen there. We have been working with the same set of guides and drivers in all these places over these years. So there is a good rapport with them. Before starting the company, we used to hear many complaints from friends and relatives who used to visit some of the sanctuaries that “we visited so and so sanctuary and couldn’t see a tiger, how come you guys go and get to see them so well”. So our answer was… “you need to be at a right place at a right time with a right person”, when all these 3 ‘rights’ meet, your chances of sighting a big game increases”… So these questions prompted us to start this company so that we can make use of our knowledge and contacts at these sanctuaries and try to make trips into the wild more pleasurable for our guests. See nobody can ‘guarantee’ sightings of any kind of wildlife in the national parks and so can’t we. But yes our guides and naturalist work hard and use their best of the knowledge to make our guests’ safaris more pleasurable and fruitful.”
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