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Images from Kyrgyzstan — a country that is every photographer’s delight!

Posted by Arun Bhat on March 15, 2019

    
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Originally posted on medium.com

For a small landlocked country in Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan is surprisingly visually rich and beautiful. Its tall snow-covered mountains reach to the sky, standing majestically amidst undulating landscapes. Its hills are home to gently wavering grasslands inhabited by semi-nomadic shepherds. These grasslands are dotted with yurts, the mobile homes of shepherds where a traveller encounters the generous hospitality of every proud Kyrgyz. Graceful Central Asian horses canter in these heavenly gardens, adding a sense of spiritual upliftment to the entire landscape.

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Surreal images of Kyrgyzstan

Join me on a photography tour to Kyrgyzstan. It’s an enthralling experience with incredible photography opportunities!

For a visitor with a camera, every corner of Kyrgyzstan is an extravagantly picturesque affair. Here is a collection of every reason that makes Kyrgyzstan a photographer’s delight. click to read more »

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A photographer’s relentless search to discover his calling!

Posted by Arun Bhat on March 1, 2019

    
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Originally published on medium.com

I bought my first camera nearly 15 years ago. It was pretty much a flimsy box with a plasticky ultra-wide lens designed for widest possible angle of view and also put everything in focus. It was one of those one-time use cameras with pre-loaded film, something that pre-digital photographers might remember. I upgraded fast. My next purchase was an entry level film SLR. A professional then would have called it an ‘entry level’ toy, but it was all glass and glitter for a newbie like me. Those days, any SLR camera would turn heads and make a lot of people pause and look at you with starry eyes. Some would approach me with an evident admiration and ask if I was a professional. I wasn’t, then.

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My equipment kept changing. I quickly moved to an entry-level digital SLR. In a few years when I evolved to call myself a professional photographer, I had a big clunky black box that helped me make images in most challenging situations.

Upgrade in photography equipment came easy. The more money I made, the better equipment I bought and used them to make technically superior images. But the search for images that said something new, images that spoke about something extraordinary, remained relentless. click to read more »

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18 images of amazing Kyrgyzstan — Nomadic Shepherds, Central Asian Horses, Eagle-Hunters and Brilliant Mountain Landscapes

Posted by Arun Bhat on February 8, 2019

    
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Originally posted in medium.com

Kyrgyzstan is a nation defined by its natural beauty. Joyously unspoilt mountainscapes, stark craggy ridges and rolling jailoos (summer pastures) are brought to life by semi-nomadic, yurt-dwelling shepherds— Lonely Planet Central Asia

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An Eagle-Hunter in Kyrgyzstan

I was always fascinated about remote and unknown regions of Central Asia’s highlands. Even when there is not so much a thing called ‘unknown’ in today’s world of air travel and internet, the mountainous regions far north of the Himalayas seemed to be away from everywhere. The region always sounded exotic, with its fables of Silk-Route and of marching armies of Chengiz Khan and Timur Leng. Their nomadic settlements in the mountains and fascinating eagle-hunters on their Central-Asian horses were stuff that made for exotic stories. click to read more »

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