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Anil Kumar Ranganatha is an ardent nature admirer, who loves music and photography. A techie by profession, He hails from Bangalore where one day he was introduced to photography by one of his friends. Further, Anil’s association with his close friend and fellow Landscape Wizards photographer Pramod Viswanath added fuel to a growing passion. Since then, walking the trails of nature with a camera in hand has become more of a second nature for Anil.
Anil cannot imagine anything else that could provide a state of self satisfaction and happiness other than relishing and sharing the different expressions of nature. He believes in “Nature is the art of God”, and is constantly trying to enhance the ‘way of seeing and capturing’ this natural art around him in the form of images. These images have found their abode in Landscape Wizards.
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Having his roots in the Western Ghats in Karnataka, Ashwini Kumar Bhat is currently based out of Bangalore. As weekend warrior in terms of photography, He does software development for living. Birding and trekking are his other passions.
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A self taught photographer from Bangalore, Pramod Viswanath puts into practice his techniques of seeing and photography in the western ghats region of Karnataka. The wilderness as a whole has a lasting effect on Pramod’s mind, whether it be the mighty Himalayas of the North, or the tropical jungles of the South. Pramod has been frequenting the wild trying to understand nature and to photograph the most beautiful creations ever since he got his Canon 30D.
You can find Pramod, somewhere in the wild at the crack of dawn photographing nature. As days rolled by, his love for nature and photography has also grown by leaps and bounds. Pramod’s goal is to create images that resonate with his emotions and to evoke a sense of care and responsibility towards Nature in the viewers mind. When at home you can find him glued to internet interacting with the larger photographers’ community and enjoying the zillions of images posted on the web. He loves watching Sir David Attenborough on animal planet.
Pramod’s primary workhorse camera is Canon EOS 5D Mark 2.
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Shivakumar L Narayan is a Bangalore based Travel and Nature photographer. Being a graduate in Engineering, spends time during weekdays as Quality Assurance Engineer as his profession. He was bitten by the shutter bug when was gifted a SLR by his sister. Since then learning turned into hobby and hobby into passion and now he is pursuing this passion to build up a strong database of Landscape images of India through the Landscape-Wizards team.
Shivakumar is a firm believer of the fact that its not the gear but the dream and vision of the dream which is mostly needed to make memorable images.
His predominant shooting workhorse is a Canon 5D DSLR along with a variety of “L” lenses ranging from 17mm to 300mm. Off the field he is a true “Mac-a-holic” and uses Adobe tools like Lightroom and Photoshop CS5 for his image management and post-processing needs.
Sriharsha Ganjam is a nerdy Business Intelligence professional on weekdays and a passionate nature photographer on weekends. Nature and its subjects have always had a deep rooted fascination in “Harsh’s” imagination and he uses his time trying to showcase the subtle relationships that exist in nature. His first exposure to nature photography was on his trip to Bandhavgarh in the Dec of 2007. And before he knew it, he was hooked on the Nature photography brand wagon doing more trips and buying even more equipment to satiate his new found passion. Very soon it dawned on him, that to translate the feelings and emotions of nature into memorable still images, one needs more than just equipments. One needs to see nature with the mind’s eye! And this is one thing that he truly believes in.
He is also an avid star gazer and finds deep spirituality when gazing in to the stars on clear winter nights. He also runs for various charities whenever he is not off travelling or shooting.
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Samir Lakhani was limited to being a music listener until about 2006 when he laid his hands on his personal music player – obviously an Apple iPod. The sounds from the the guitar chords inspired him to take things up further and he landed up learning music. Self thought guitarist with a backing of hours of sleepless nights, jamming with friends, Samir is now heading up to record his own portfolio of work. He believes in journey with footprints than the destination itself! He is a firm believer of the fact that every art can communicate and when combined with technology can really end up creating wonders. By profession Samir is a Software professional and loves sports, movies and food.