Moto, Grapher!

Finally, I am happy and sure of my home on the web. This speck in the cyberspace will be my digital self, sharing my experiences in travels, photography and life in general. After so many years I found a perfect digital handle for my persona – MotoGrapher. Though it might force an image of me on a motorcycle with a camera, I believe it is that and more – that of capturing the movement of time, light, things and travel with a combination of photos, words and my ‘eye’.

Computer Graphic design was always my first love. Then things got a little diverse when I started motorcycling in 2003. It was then that I started a personal webpage on my first motorcycle, an Indian thoroughbred called Pulsar 180. All of its 15 horses propelled my desire and imagination into doing something more with my life. It was then that through a series of events my personal webpage evolved into one of the most vibrant youth motorcycle communities and portal in India called xBhp, which means x amount of braking horse power.

In 2006, necessity motivated me to wear garbs of a photographer, journalist, entrepreneur, webmaster, graphic designer and someone who was a fortunate amalgamation of these skills. I worked for no one but my heart’s calling, which led me deeper into motorcycling, and particularly into photography.

I started taking photography seriously in early 2008, when I did my first New Zealand roadtrip. Before that I hardly knew much about the technicals of a camera, but I had something which cannot be learnt or taught, the ‘eye’ for composition, aesthetics. Or so I was told by some.

Since 2003, I have been on many smaller trips on motorcycles, but the significant ones have been 18,000 kms of India on a Honda Fireblade (2006), 24,000 kms Australia on a Hyosung GT650 (2007), 6000 kms of New Zealand on Kawasaki Concours 14 (2008), 13,000 kms of India on a Yamaha R1 (2009), 2500 kms of Ireland on a BMW R1200ST (2009), 7300 kms of New Zealand on a Suzuki BKing (2010) and 2000 kms on a Can Am Spyder in Australia in 2010. All of these trips were solo or in a team and done for companies around the world.

That was enough to keep me digging deeper into what actually I wanted become, a good, a very good photographer. I am still on the path which hopefully will see me get better as I keep clicking, but I don’t think that day will ever come when I can say to myself in the mirror – now you are the best. Perhaps this is the very thing which drives a man to strive to become better than self at every opportunity, else this world will be full over oversaturated complacent people who can never be creative, but just productive.

Without getting entangled in rhetoric and the way of the language, I will do what I do best here, travel, take photos and share them with you.

My ultimate dream for now is to become a photographer involved in a project which has a positive impact on a substantial audience, something which will motivate me to get to that next level (and pay my bills at the same time!).
Please subscribe to one of the options available which will allow me to update you of my whereabouts and activities (or the lack of it). Who knows one day we might meet on the road, some of my most prized friends has come that way.
This is the first version of MotoGrapher, expect it to age into something vibrant and knowledgeable as I keep adding fragments of myself to it.