Also see: our photography tour to Myanmar in October. Inle Lake is a world built on water. Located on the lake are several villages on stilts standing tall above the water. Life here revolves within the lake’s waters: their markets are floating, their vegetable gardens…
Here is a guest post from Dhruva Suresh, who travelled with Darter on “Heart of the Himalayas – Photography Tour in Lahaul & Spiti.” All text and images by Dhruva. It‘s been all so fast. I left Bangalore airport at 10 in the morning…
Also see: part I – using flash for indoor portraits In the last edition, we wrote about using an external flash for getting better portrait indoors. This part addresses using flash as fill light when photographing outdoors. Travelling in North East India on our yearly photography tour…
In this Guest Post, Dr. Jyoti Sapre shares her experiences and photographs from her first ever photography tour – to Ladakh! Her photo essay presented below was made on Darter’s Mountains and Monasteries tour of Ladakh in July 2015. I came across the Darter website a few months…
At Darter Photography, we are excited to welcome Srikanth KS as the mentor for our macro photography workshops. For almost a decade and a half, Srikanth has had the opportunity to witness and photograph some rare moments in nature. He has trekked and travelled…
In this Guest Post, Saurabh Pandey explores how Life and Light are the two main recurring themes (often interconnected) that have helped him make memorable images in Ladakh. His photo essay presented below was made on Darter’s Mountains and Monasteries tour of Ladakh in July 2014. About the…
Travelling through North-East India last December during our ‘Photography in North-East India and Hornbill Festival‘ tour, we visited several small villages, spent time chatting with people in rural areas in their homes and made many photographs in the process. Often when shooting indoors, we ran…
If the giant pagoda at Mingun was completed, it would have been the largest in all of Myanmar and perhaps in the entire world. But when astrologers advised that the king would die on completion of the structure, work was suspended. Some ancient structures are charming…
This is a guest post by Vineet Panchbhaiyye who joined us (among other tours) on our Goa photography tour in August 2013. While we were on a nature trail one evening in Goa, Nirmal Kulkarni (eminent herpetologist and our nature expert on the tour) got…
Also see: our photography tour to Myanmar. During my journeys through the cities and smaller places in Myanmar, I always enjoyed meeting and interacting with Buddhist monks. You find them almost everywhere across the country in fairly good numbers, be it in large cities or the countryside….
