Rajasthan's First Woman Wildlife Photographer | Dr. Shashi Sharma

About this episode

Dr. Shashi Sharma, Rajasthan's first woman wildlife photographer and an assistant professor of foods and nutrition at Government College Ajmer, gives a behind-the-scenes look at how she picked up her first camera at 45 and built one of the most quietly remarkable wildlife photography careers in India. In this episode of Chaos To Clarity, Shashi shares how she went from a saturation point in her academic career to 662 bird species photographed across India, why she never planned any of it, and the mentors who first put a camera in her hands.

She also unpacks the safety systems every woman traveller should build before entering the jungle alone, her exact camera settings for bird photography (aperture priority, manual mode, ISO limits, exposure compensation), the ethics of getting close without disturbing a bird, the scorpion story at Kumbhalgarh that taught her about presence of mind, and why she believes the whole race of counting birds and chasing followers has ruined the pure essence of the hobby.

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