Mot du jour. In less stressful times.

Portraits of rural Goa. I came across Richa Kandolkar and her cow during a drive through Korgaon, a village in North Goa. Added to the Faces of Goa series.

Winter in the Sub-Arctic. The local farmer on his morning walk in Þistilfjörður, Northeast Iceland. Check out the video short below.

Light, Shadow, and Mist come together on this December morning in the paddy fields of Saligao, Goa. A full appreciation of this fleeting interplay is only possible from a drone’s elevated perspective.

A hard lesson learned. My drone crashed a few weeks ago on a cold, foggy morning in the snowy wilds of Iceland. At the time I was filming a flock of sheep huddled on a ridge near Möðrudalur in the Northern

The golf clubhouse in Borgarnes glows in the final moments of the day’s sun. In the background looms Hafnarfjall.

Moods of the season. Eyvindarhólakirkja is in the Eyjafjöll region on the south coast of Iceland. The historic Reykjahlíðarkirkja, miraculously spared in the 1729 Krafla eruption, is in the north by Mývatn.

It is the middle of winter right now with its attendant servings of icy winds, gales, blizzards, snow, sleet, and rain. For the hardy souls who make Iceland‘s far-flung northeast corner their home, it

Pure visual melody. The splash of low sub-Arctic sun on the Icelandic landscape is among Nature’s most wondrous displays.

A life in music and drama. The eminent vocalist and actor Prasad Sawkar is one of Goa‘s many sterling contributions to Art and Culture. I called on the doyen of the Marathi stage, now in his nineties,

2020 is here. I was out early this morning in Goa.

Organized bullfights, known in Goa as Dhirio, are now illegal. But popular Goan traditions are not going to be reined in by pesky laws. The ‘action’ is now often scheduled in the wee hours of the morning;

Sunset in Goa.

Gleðileg Jól, Feliz Natal, Merry Christmas!

Frozen Iceland. A couple of scenes out of my window during our Icelandair flight to Copenhagen yesterday. Shot with the iPhone XS, the image quality is not in the SLR league, but give it another 2/3 years,

Mornin’ in Goa. In the village of Talaulim.

After years of unsuccessful attempts, I finally managed to catch the first light at Hraundrangi a few weeks ago.

Mornin’ in Goa. First light in the village of Penha de França. Check out the video short in the post.

La plus belle ville du monde. Iceland‘s second-largest city has a population of 18,000.

Northern Lights in Haukadalur á Rangárvöllum.