Guest Post: Life and Light – The Essence of Photography in Ladakh
Guest Post: Life and Light – The Essence of Photography in Ladakh

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…

Travel Photography Tip: Using flash for the perfect portrait in North-East India – Part I
Travel Photography Tip: Using flash for the perfect portrait in North-East India – Part I

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…

Travel photography tip: Introducing a sense of scale at Mingun Pagoda, Mandalay, Myanmar
Travel photography tip: Introducing a sense of scale at Mingun Pagoda, Mandalay, Myanmar

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…

Green Vine Snake feeding on Shieldtail
Green Vine Snake feeding on Shieldtail

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…

Food Styling and photography workshop in Delhi – Update
Food Styling and photography workshop in Delhi – Update

  Our first Food Photography and styling workshop, recently conducted was well received by Delhi NCR food photography enthusiasts.  The workshop was structured in such a manner that it should benefit both advance level photographers as well as budding enthusiasts. Deeba Rajpal the well…

Travel Photography Inspiration – Monks of Myanmar
Travel Photography Inspiration – Monks of Myanmar

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….

Passionate Baker and Food Stylist Deeba Rajpal Shares her top 5 tips on Food Photography
Passionate Baker and Food Stylist Deeba Rajpal Shares her top 5 tips on Food Photography

Also see: Our Food Styling & Photography Workshop in Delhi on May 30th, 2015  Dear readers we are happy to present today an interview with Deeba Rajpal, who is Passionate about Baking, is a well known food stylist and photographer, she shares her recipes…

Photographing life on the water at Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia
Photographing life on the water at Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia

Images of life on Tonle Sap Lake – floating villages, houses on stilts, boat-houses, shops on boats and everything else about living on water.

Photography in the Himalayas – Going Beyond Landscapes – People & Culture of the Highlands
Photography in the Himalayas – Going Beyond Landscapes – People & Culture of the Highlands

Also see: Our photography tours in the Himalayas The name of ‘Himalayas’ brings into mind a picture of lofty snow peaks and dramatic landscapes. Most travellers as well as photography-enthusiasts, at least the first timers, go to the Himalayas with an aim to see &…

Ask Darter: Servicing your digital camera
Ask Darter: Servicing your digital camera

Ask Darter is a column on Darter’s Photography Blog, where we answer your questions related to photography. If you have a photography question, but did not know whom to ask, we are here to help you and answer your questions. Click here to ask a photography…