Weekend Photography Tip: Walk around your garden
Weekend Photography Tip: Walk around your garden

If you have a garden at home (even if it means a few potted plants), in your apartment complex or a park near your home, make a trip there with your camera. These places not only have beautiful flowers (which you could try photographing…

Photo of the Week – Theme: Open Spaces
Photo of the Week – Theme: Open Spaces

At a facebook group that connects participants of past Darter Photography events, we post images based on a theme every week. At the end of the week, the images that are most ‘liked’ for the theme will be crowned ‘photo of the week’. The…

Photo Essay: Karaga Festival in Bangalore
Photo Essay: Karaga Festival in Bangalore

As the winter makes way to warmer days, Bangalore prepares for its most popular festival in the old quarters of the town. Karaga is perhaps the most well-known traditional festival in Bangalore, celebrated with a large gathering around Dharmarayaswamy Temple in the center of…

Photo of the Week – Theme: Flowers
Photo of the Week – Theme: Flowers

Flowers are perhaps easy subjects to photograph – they are inherently beautiful and abundantly available. But with such subjects, it becomes all the more difficult to make your photograph stand out. In these week’s theme at facebook group Darter Photographers on flowers, we were…

Photos of the Week – Theme: Red
Photos of the Week – Theme: Red

At a facebook group that connects participants of past Darter Photography events, we post images based on a theme every week. At the end of the week, the images that are most ‘liked’ for the theme will be crowned ‘photo of the week’. This…

June 2012 – Desktop Calendar

Starting now, we will be posting calendars for your desktop every month. Here is the calendar for the month of June – photograph of a pretty village in Spiti Valley. For more about Spiti and our upcoming tour to the region, visit https://darter.in//photography-tours/travel/lahaul-spiti-photography-tour/  Click on…

Photography from Lahaul & Spiti – The Heart of the Himalayas
Photography from Lahaul & Spiti – The Heart of the Himalayas

Lahaul & Spiti region, located deep in the Himalayas is perhaps as remote, as rugged and as beautiful that the Himalayas can get within the reach of motor roads. Despite seasonal road connectivity, the region has remained isolated from bus loads of tourists and…

Photo of the Week: Theme Shadow
Photo of the Week: Theme Shadow

Congratulations Shivali Agarwal for yet another amazing composition for the theme – Shadow. Shivali is the winner of the Photo of the Week.   In her words, “A dancing peacock, flames or a necklace? Light and Shadow can create effects that are a visual…

Circle – Some interesting perspectives
Circle – Some interesting perspectives

Last week, we had the theme – CIRCLE – on our Facebook group Darter Photographers. Along with the winning entry, many interesting compositions were added to the group. Circles are all around us – wheels, coins, watches, water bottles, pot-holes, water droplets, lenses –…

How many….?
How many….?

It was a question that left us all bewildered. Something that we didn’t see coming our way at all.   It all started with a safari through the Moharli zone in Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve last week. The morning was cool and breezy (compared to…