Karthik's Clicks - A Kocktail Photography

Karthik's Clicks - A Kocktail Photography Photography to me started off as a hobby and with time, evolved to become my second identity.

The idea of Kocktail Photography is to mix the different genres of visual story telling that I have experienced through my lens and present them here

A wonderful Yelp event at the famous Moghul] today! Thoroughly enjoyed socializing with the fellow Elite Yelpers! Great ...
07/06/2022

A wonderful Yelp event at the famous Moghul] today! Thoroughly enjoyed socializing with the fellow Elite Yelpers!

Great food+Amazing Ambience+Spectacular Company= An Evening well spent!

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The Shrine of DemocracySome famous people feature as statues while some on postage stamps to mark a legacy behind them. ...
04/02/2021

The Shrine of Democracy

Some famous people feature as statues while some on postage stamps to mark a legacy behind them. But these US Presidents have left more than just that, by becoming the faces of the Granite rich Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. Sculpted by the father-son duo of Gutzon and Lincoln Borglum, this epic project was started in 1927 and completed in 1941 in the Black hills of Mount Rushmore. Wondering why they couldn’t go beyond just the 60-foot (18 m) heads till the waists on the sculpture? Well, Budget constraints.

From left to right - George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln representing USA’s birth, growth, development and preservation, respectively.

Driving to South Dakota from Minnesota was always a breeze and we’ve seen this historical monument, twice - in a bright July summer and covered by an unexpected late spring snow in May. We were able to witness Mount Rushmore in the white cover, thanks to the Winter storm Venus that dumped a record breaking snowfall from nowhere, in Spring 2015.

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Pic 1 & 2: Summer 2017
Pic 3 & 4: Spring 2015

In a non-pandemic world, this place usually attracts more than 2 million visitors annually.

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@ Mount Rushmore National Memorial

The Sea of Mountains Blue Ridge Mountain range in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia clicked over various times of the d...
03/31/2021

The Sea of Mountains

Blue Ridge Mountain range in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia clicked over various times of the day. The enormity of this range is so huge and vast that you cannot contain it into just a single frame of a camera. Part of the larger Appalachian mountain range, it stands to a height of more than 6000 ft and runs almost 550 miles covering several states.

We visited Shenandoah in 2019 and were in awe of this majestic mountain range. If Kannadasan was alive today, he would have felt proud of his own lines - “Malaiyin kaatchi, Iraivan aatchi” (roughly translates to The mountains are God’s own kingdom)

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Holi - The Festival of ColorsHoli aka “Festival of Love” is an ancient Indian festival that marks the start and celebrat...
03/29/2021

Holi - The Festival of Colors

Holi aka “Festival of Love” is an ancient Indian festival that marks the start and celebration of Spring. On this festive day, loved ones get together to smear colors on each other to show their love, laugh, frolic, have fun and also mend relationships.

The riot of colors could have dulled in tone in a pandemic world, but we will only wish that the darkness drowns soon and a colorful dawn awaits us.

I clicked this candid moment of Deepika and Rohan back in 2019 during our Holi celebrations in Minneapolis. Ever heard about ‘sweeping your loved ones off their feet’? That’s exactly what Rohan did, when he took Deepika on a surprise shoulder ride for the first time and boy don’t they look jubilant? 🙂

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Jewel of the Navajo NationLower Antelope aka The Corkscrew in Page, Arizona, is one of the two Slot-canyons (long & deep...
03/26/2021

Jewel of the Navajo Nation

Lower Antelope aka The Corkscrew in Page, Arizona, is one of the two Slot-canyons (long & deep channel of drainageway with sedimentary rock walls) on the Navajo Nation (the largest land area retained by the indigenous tribe of American Indians in the USA).

Nature surprises us in a lot of ways that we can’t imagine and the spiral flowing shapes that you see here are natural formations made out of erosion and flash flooding, making this Antelope known as “Hazdistazi” - ‘Spiral Rock Arches’ in the Navajo language.

This place can only be visited through guided tours and is touted to be one of the popular photography destinations. Two times of visit to this place and we’ve only found it more wanting to see more of this mesmerizing beauty of a landscape.

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Happiness is capturing candid shots of people at their natural best and this is one of my favorites, capturing one of my...
03/20/2021

Happiness is capturing candid shots of people at their natural best and this is one of my favorites, capturing one of my best friends’ family. Needless to say, she’s one of the cutest and bubbliest babies that I’ve come across. The moment Prashanth held her up in the air, my heart raced to catch the moment as much as I was tensed if he was going to gently fling her in the air, to catch her back into his arms. If at all he had done that, how would a one year old know about or have confidence in her father’s catching skills, but she still laughed and had no show of insecurity on her face. May be she knew she was and will anyway be back in safe hands, her forever territory and her own haven of happiness- her father’s arms. The natural lighting conditions helped for a perfect silhouette and to affirm she’s indeed the first light of their life. Well, today also happens to be her father’s birthday. Happy birthday Prashanth, may your life be filled with more such happy moments 🙂

Central Park - The Urban GreeneryPeople who visit NYC are mostly asked if they have visited the Times Square, Empire Sta...
03/17/2021

Central Park - The Urban Greenery

People who visit NYC are mostly asked if they have visited the Times Square, Empire State or the World Trade Center, but not this beauty of a landscape - Central Park! In the world’s busiest urban setting, there lies this historical park that goes across the length and breadth in the ‘heart’ of New York City and literally serves as the Lungs of NYC.

This park is one for all seasons and has people from all walks of life walking, playing and jogging around. This is the most visited urban park in the United States with an estimated 38 million visitors annually, and is the most filmed location in the world. Any director Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaayaa movie’s park scene or Netflix’s ‘You’ fans?

In all honesty, I was not able to cover all of this 843 acre massive urban greenery in one visit and would love to see more of it across all seasons, in the future. This place is no doubt a Photographer’s dream destination.

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“You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food” - As every dark cloud has a silver lining, the pandemic times gave more ...
03/15/2021

“You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food” - As every dark cloud has a silver lining, the pandemic times gave more time for my wife and me to try cooking different cuisines at home and one such was Indo-Chinese. I don’t have the superpowers to capture or freeze how good a food tastes or smells, but I do have the power to capture how good it looks when plated. On the menu card – Satay Tofu, Veg Manchurian Fried Rice, Schezwan Noodles and Veg Manchurian.

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Eye of an EmuYou are looking eye to eye with the second largest living bird by height, a bird that voluntarily swallows ...
03/13/2021

Eye of an Emu

You are looking eye to eye with the second largest living bird by height, a bird that voluntarily swallows STONES to help with its digestion, bird that can give a high intensity booming sound that can be heard from a humble distance of 1.2 miles (2 kms!!) away and finally a rare combination of species that’s flightless but at the same time swim, if need be.

I photographed this calm but fierce looking Australian native housed alongside kangaroos, at the Kentucky Down Under Adventure zoo.

Ask a photographer the best moment about photographing wildlife and with no surprise, the answer would be - looking into the eye of an animal/bird through the lens. Looking forward to share more such moments in this page.

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The breathtaking view of New York City Skyline.The splendor of this urban landscape can be best appreciated in the night...
03/13/2021

The breathtaking view of New York City Skyline.

The splendor of this urban landscape can be best appreciated in the night lights for its a place that never sleeps.

NYC’s skyline boasts of some of the tallest skyscrapers in the whole of USA with more than 200 buildings measuring 500 ft or taller. The tallest of it being the One WTC in the lower Manhattan with a mesmerizing height of 1776 ft, making it the tallest structure in the Western Hemisphere.

I’ve always been awed by how this city came together to resurrect this fallen landmark and has always been a special monument that symbolizes the Phoenix bird for its strength and resilience.

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My recent favorite venture with my wife has been sunrise and sunset chasing from different bays and parks. In our recent...
03/12/2021

My recent favorite venture with my wife has been sunrise and sunset chasing from different bays and parks. In our recent trip to Florida, we encountered some of the most beautiful sunrise and sunset views from different places. The best thing about being in Florida is that we got to see a lot of yachts and seagulls with the Sun in the backdrop, that took me back to the school days where drawing this combination would almost be a bread and butter for every kid.

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If you are in Minnesota, visiting the Split Rock Lighthouse that sits on a 130-foot cliff on the coast of Lake Superior ...
03/12/2021

If you are in Minnesota, visiting the Split Rock Lighthouse that sits on a 130-foot cliff on the coast of Lake Superior is a must. This is just not a Minnesota state historic site that’s located in Two Harbors but a National Historic Landmark. My wife and I visited this century old landmark when we were locals to MN and getting to this spot requires a hike on a treacherous stairway. Once you get to the rocks, you literally look up to this beauty of a scenery that’s a mix of natural and manmade setup.

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