Mohsin Kazmi Takes Pictures

Name: Mohsin Kazmi Takes Pictures
Address: Abingdon, VA, 24210, US
Telephone: +12018359580
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I'm a conservation photographer sharing the story of the Peruvian Amazon. Hi everyone, welcome to my page! I’m glad you could make it.

I promise i’ll be brief. I was born in a suburb of Bergen County, New Jersey. My first camera was a windup Canon 35mm point and shoot that my mom gave me when I was 9. All I remember was trying to take pictures of everything. Granted, my pictures came out quite poorly and no one really paid much attention to them; it still sparked a life long interest in photography. A lot of time has passed since

that camera, during that time I have traveled to many really incredible places. However, one type of place really struck a chord with me, the rainforest. The first one I ever saw was the Montane rainforests of Eastern Madagascar. I was blown away by the sounds and abundant plant and animal life. My interest quickly took me to the Peruvian Amazon the following year. In the Amazon I witnessed biodiversity that made Madagascar’s forests appear to be my backyard in New Jersey. The chilling reality of my experiences came to fruition when I heard my first gunshot in the Amazon within one hour of my arrival. It was imprinted in my mind until the next day, when I heard one again. I continued to hear gunshots until the sound of trees falling and chainsaws wailing started become a familiar occurrence. I realized that my pictures could actually show anyone who viewed them the realities of poaching and deforestation in the Amazon. In the three weeks that I spent there I saw far too many Mahogany trees floating down the Las Piedras River and I truly believe that through my pictures, I have the power to allow these trees to continue to stay vertical. While I can easily say I was taken aback by the rainforests ecosystems of the world, I have not seen all of them. It is my life’s goal to travel to every rainforest in the world and take pictures of an Eden that so few people get to experience. I hope the pictures I share with you bring awareness to lifestyles and places that should be seen, protected, and respected. When I am not traveling I enjoy photographing people, events, and just about anything that looks interesting. I have a huge passion for motorcycles and I ride any time that I can. If you would like to contact me about anything at all, please feel free. Thanks for listening! Your Friend,

Mohsin Kazmi

Relevant Links:

www.paulrosolie.com (A good friend of mine who is doing amazing things in the amazon)

www.tamanduajungle.com (Your opportunity to see the Amazon up close, and personal)

12/19/2025

Seven years ago we had an idea. We bought a 1996 Ford Step Van and built our own food truck from the ground up. We decided we would know how the numbers worked after the first day of sales. We knew nothing and still, we kept going.

Now our beloved passion project, officially has a brick and mortar. I honestly don’t know how we got here. Seven years of festivals, pop-ups, interviews, events, brunches, flat tires, and check engine lights. All to serve a culinary category that our combined souls must have created in the ether long before we met on Earth. It’s a grueling profession, you HAVE to believe in what you’re doing to weather the unpredictable nature of the food business. My days start long before the sun rises, when the work at the kitchen is done, I come home and fall asleep to a whirling carousel of plates and dishes that started as raw ingredients 14 hours earlier.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the people we’ve met on the road, how we used to hand out 1,000’s of samples (and still do). The truth is each and every one of our loyal, supportive customers were earned, face to face, one by one.

Every step of the way my family, friends, and community have been there, getting it done. IT has been chaotic, terrifying , and one of the most fulfilling things I’ve embarked upon.

To my community, forgive me for lacking in the communication department, I’m doing my best. So many faces new, and old. I am starting to forget names and where I met folks but it’s all because I’m pouring my entire being into making sure that all of the love and energy I have is going into the dishes we serve and the team we are building and the family we are raising.

So thankful for where this journey has taken us. I hope to find balance someday in the near future but until then I’m going to focus on being relentless.

Also, I love you every confounding thing we do together lights a fire in all the remaining youthful cells I have in my body. Of all the thoughts tossed around in my head. “What is life?” Is not a question I ever have to ask.

11/06/2025

Drone training. Took about 10 minutes.

11/04/2025

They don’t make them like Joe Dinkins anymore.

09/06/2025

PUBLISHED!

The 10 year old iteration of me just reached out and gave me a big hug. My academic journey has always been a side quest to a boots on the ground approach to conservation work. As time marched on and progress was made I started to ease off of my childhood aspiration of contributing a novel observation to the sci community.

Just being in the reserve while showing visitors untouched ecosystems can be incredibly gratifying and I am always grateful for that opportunity.

With that being said, the rainforest can provide you with gifts, none of which you can possibly plan to receive. On this day while walking a small tributary of The Las Piedras River, the forest presented a few incredibly cryptic creatures to our group.

We were able to observe fishing behavior amongst a group of Bush Dog (Speothos venaticus) pups and their Mother. In 15 years, this was the first time I had ever seen them in-situ. Bush dogs are strange creatures whose closest living relatives are Maned Wolves and African Wild Dogs.

I almost didn’t go on this excursion, I almost didn’t bring my camera. I almost missed an opportunity to accomplish a goal that was slowly evaporating from a nearly lost corridor of my brain. The place that holds the boundless curiosity and optimism of a child who loved the natural world.

The other day my son saw a hawk sitting on a telephone line and asked me: “Daddy WHEN is that bird going to go extinct?”

I fear for kids growing up in our modern times, many of which never get to experience the natural world with the kind of hope that is untainted by themes such as habitat loss, extinction, and the incessant development of green spaces into depauperate impermeable heat sinks full of non native “landscaping”.

There are still so many observations to be had, species to discover, and hope to sew for future generations. That is why I will continue on this path while remembering where it all started.

This is a simple natural history observation, but I get to share it with the special people who made it possible.

A big thanks to: .duran.98 and most notably whose efforts made this happen!

06/13/2025

Sunset on The Piedras. The song is the caption. ❤️

05/08/2025

A late night stroll in the Aguajal, the rewards truly come after your chest meets the bubbly methane filled depths.

04/23/2025

Taking a four year old in the jungle is not for the faint of heart. Since the day he was born, I’ve worked hard to earn my son’s trust. He got to spend meaningful time with a band of crazy uncles. He got to be loved on by my one of a kind Peruvian family. He got to bask in the glory of the jungle I’m so proud to be Selva’s Daddy. Thank you Uncle for this forever memory.

03/18/2025

Layers

03/11/2025

Bungalow Vibes at

03/07/2025

Yarrow Clinch Kazmi. Born 3/3/25. You made us whole.

03/04/2025

Pondering on the unrelenting, yet fragile miracle that is the reproductive process on this . Billions of gut wrenching stories of survival happening all around us, everywhere, simultaneously. Every midsummer cricket chorus, the raccoons mischievously opening trash cans on their midnight city raids, and all of the birds calling to each other on power lines during your morning commute. Life is all around us. Every living creature alive today is the most recent link in an interconnected chain that was forged by their own paws, claws, talons, and hands. This stubborn and persistent story has been writing itself long before humankind was beamed into their own collective consciousness. It is because of this that we seem to take the relative abundance all around us for granted. If we do not stop to appreciate this truth, we will continue to walk down a path that favors the breaking of these ancient chains before we have time to appreciate the precious jewels that adorn our only planet, Earth.

01/23/2025

They say that if you want to understand the dinosaurs, look to the birds. Their feathers and scaly feet are vestigial representations of a time when their ancestors looked up to the sun in a largely terrestrial domain. Somewhere in their ancient genetic code existed the wisdom that true freedom is rewarded to those who could ascend to the heavens to catch a glimpse of the world from a leafy perch atop the canopy. The ability to experience the first sign of daylight closer to that same sun. It is the only way that I can begin to explain how a creature would make such an evolutionary trade off. Every bird, large or small, colorful or drab holds its head high with an unwavering confidence and understanding that they achieved something their cold blooded ancestors considered unattainable.

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