About
I am a sea captain by trade and an amateur photographer. I find photography as a perfect confluence of art & science. It has enough technology in it to keep the most ardent of geeks satisfied. The creative possibilities are only limited by one’s imagination.
If you like my pictures and would want to use them, please drop me a note and link them back to my blog.
You may follow my other works at:
All images © 2009-2013 Ausaf Abidi.
Beautiful stuff, love your eye.
Aww.. thanks Alice 🙂
Your comment is very reassuring. God bless!
Nice reading about you
Thanks for visiting my blog. Be in touch. Browse through the category sections,
I feel you may find something of your interest.
THANKS for visiting my “pun-ny” photoblog and leaving a “like.” Your photos are stunning!
–John R.: http://TheDailyGraff.com
Your are welcome. And thankyou 🙂
Hej from Sweden!
Thanks for stopping by my blog and liking my recent post. Welcome back anytime!
Hallå
Your blog is fabulous! Keep up the good work 🙂
Cheers!
Hej from Sweden!
Wow how kind of you! I hope you continue to enjoy. Take a look at past posts to see how my little herd grew.
Hej då
Its a thoughtful blog!
Thank you 🙂
Hey, thanks for the visit and following my blog.
oops, I meant liking my blog.
alright.. now I am following it too 🙂
Thanks 🙂
Hej from Sweden!
You came back! thanks for liking my recent post.
Welcome back !
Hej!
I am following you 🙂
Hej from Sweden !
Thank you! I hope you continue to enjoy.
Hej from Sweden!
You’ve been peeking at my blog. Thanks for visiting and liking a couple of my posts!
The goats are in after just a couple of days out. We have snow and wind which the goats do not like .
You are most welcome back!
Yup! Your goats are cute! 🙂
Thank you for looking at Storyteller. — Ray
Your style of storytelling is very effective & appealing 🙂
Your photos are beautiful – and I love that phrase “ardent geeks”. That paints a beautiful word picture too. Blessings.
Thank you 🙂
Well… I discovered my ‘about’ page full 3 days after starting my blog, which btw is only 3 weeks back. Whenever I used to see my ‘stats’ I used to wonder why do people go to ‘about’ page.
To my horror, it read ‘this is an example of a page’… LOL.
I decided to fill it out with whatever gibberish came to my mind first. I am really glad that you could see some sense in it.
Cheers and stay blessed!
Thanks so much for visiting Mrs. City Boy and liking my blog! Love your photos and will be checking them out in the future!
You are welcome 🙂
You have a very versatile blog. I really liked the number of categories you have there.
And thanks for liking my pictures.
Stay blessed!
Thank you for checking out my Blog and taking the tim to leave a comment.
I love the image of your daughter chilling out! I love photographs and will look forward to seeing more of your work.
You have a wonderful blog.
Thanks for liking my post ‘chilling out’. 🙂
Do go through other posts at your leisure.
I reached your block through a link on toemail’s post.
Have a lovely weekend (whatever remains of it) 🙂
Thank you for visiting my blog:)
You are welcome Nana. You have a very versatile & inspiring blog centered around visual arts.
Thank you for your comment Ausaf:) yes a lot of stuff about the visual arts here in my blog, i get inspired looking/seeing what other artists, photographers are doing.
Hi Ausef,
Kumusta? 🙂 I clicked the link to FB hoping to find a Follow or Like button, so I can keep track of the photographs. Will you be activating that anytime soon? 🙂
Cheers,
Mary
Hi Mary,
Ayos lang ! 🙂
Thanks for bringing my attention to a very important aspect. It has now been sorted out. I didn’t have an FB page earlier. Same has now been created. Hope you ‘like’ it 🙂
Sure, will go over there tonight. Thanks for replying 🙂
FB page liked! Well done!!
Thank you 🙂
Hej from Sweden !
Thank you for liking my recent post. I hope that you continue to enjoy!
Thanks Ausaf for the like in my posts: Pen and INk and small drawings:)
You are welcome Nana. Your drawings were very nicely done. 🙂
Thank you Ausaf..I used to draw a lot, many years ago..but now, not so much..but i am starting to draw again..hopefully i get to finish and draw well enough again before the year ends:) and compile a new series..
I wish you all the best Nana. Shall look forward to your new series.
Thank you Ausaf! and goodluck to you too:)
You’ve been nominated for the Beautiful Blogger Award 🙂 xx
Many thanks! Appreciate it!
Don’t mention it 🙂 –your blog is fantastic!
Hej from Sweden !
Thanks for liking my recent post!
Hey ! Thanks for liking my recent photos !
Love yours , especially Love never dies 😀
Lol. thank you. One of the fellow bloggers has also suggested that sometimes ‘its sold out’ 🙂
hi sir!
thank you for liking my recent post…”island adventures”… i guess you did a lot of that yourself… 🙂 you said you are just an amateur photographer? your photos are awesome! 🙂
Thank you Je. Very kind words 🙂
I am glad you liked my work.
Stay blessed.
Thanks for the visit.
Wow…I was lucky with the Heron shot. Your work is in a different league altogether
For what it’s worth, that shot was taken with an old OM10 and a 200mm lens; I know that proper photographers like to read that sort of information!
Thanks for the camera/settings info ‘Watch the bird’ post. It always interests photo-enthusiasts like me 🙂
Apologies for a delayed reply. I wonder how I missed your comment. 🙂
Take care.
Beautiful photography!!
Thank you 🙂
Greetings from Australia,
I loved what you wrote in your biography, so very succinct and true. I look forward to exploring your blog. Take great care and God bless.
Thank you Konstantine. I am glad you liked what you read. Your own work is very classy & inspiring. I am truly happy to have had your attention here.
Stay blessed.
Dear Ausaf,
The pleasure and honour are mine indeed and thank your for your kind and generous words. Take care my friend and God bless you.
Amazing pics! I like the “frame” concept! Congratulations on a great blog!
Thank you! I am glad you liked it.
Thanks for liking my post on Romania 🙂 You have great pictures on here. I assume being a captain is the best way to take some really cool pictures of the seas 🙂
Thank you Evez, Your post on Romania was fab! 🙂
Thanks so much for visiting my blog, liking my photos, and your kind comment! I appreciate it very much. I’ve enjoyed my visit here and look forward to following your posts. 😀
Thsnks for the many likes Ausaf!
Thanks for starting following my blog!
Hej from Sweden!
Thanks for visiting my blog again and liking my recent post.
Welcome back anytime !
Hej from Sweden!
Thanks for stopping by my blog and liking my recent post ” Time for Milk Stand Training at Gullringstorp “.
Welcome back.
You are welcome 🙂
Your photos are amazing! Love it
Thank you! I am glad you liked them. 🙂
Hej from Sweden!
Wow you came back and liked my recent post. Thank you.
Hope to see you back again!
Such stunning images!
Thank you! Appreciate your interest 🙂
Super blog and the pictures are really stunning and eye-catching, really enjoyed going through…
Thanks Harish!
Glad you liked them! And congratulations on Arjun’s arrival. God bless him!
Thank you so much for your kind words Ausaf…
You are nominated for the WordPress Family Award. Your blog contributes to the online community and family of bloggers. Find the rules for accepting this award at my blog, Memory Catcher, http://memorycatcher.me/2013/05/09/wordpress-family-award/. Thank you for the collaboration and beautiful photographs. CONGRATULATIONS!
Thank you 🙂
I am honored!
You have been nominated for the Best Moment Award.Go to
http://jeaninjackson.com for more info. Thank you for sharing such beautiful work.
Thank you! Appreciate it!
What a great collection of photographs, Captain!
Thank you 🙂
Thanks so much for the “like” on my blog. You photos are beautiful, keep posting your images of your travels, it’s wonderful to see images of places that I probably will never get to see 🙂
Karen
WOW! Those colours are amazing. I’m inspired to do better. Thanks for dropping by “Honey.”
Good to find you here as well 🙂 Great pictures Captain!
Thank you Harsha and likewise. 🙂
I really liked your Lohri pics.
Gotta love a sea captain! Haven’t seen that occupation yet. That said, you site, posts and images are stunning, Ausaf!.
Many thanks Laurie. Glad you enjoyed the posts 🙂
Beautiful blog! Wish you all the best!
Thank you so much.
Glad you liked my images 🙂
Love reading about you! 🙂
Thank you Sarah 🙂
Wow! Your captures are unreal!
Thank you for visiting my blog…
I am glad you liked the images 🙂
And thanks to you too for visiting mine 😀
God bless!
Great about page! I like your vision of your blog – I think along those same lines too. Your pics are outstanding.
Thank you for stopping by A Trivial Mind at Work and the ‘like’ on He May Have Just Hit the Lottery. Come by again anytime!
Great Photography. Actually I’m really new to the whole concept of blogging. I hope you can visit my site
Thank you Mark. Will do that right away.
Thanks for the like now i’m following your blog 🙂
THANKS
Hi Ausef, Thanks for checking out my blog. I’m glad you liked it and decided to follow it. I like yours as well. I think we might have more in common than both being captains and amateur photographers. 🙂
I like how you’re using your special effects. I haven’t figured any of that out yet.
Thanks Jill. I am glad you liked my blog and the pictures.
I do like to push my boundaries with image making at times, although I usually do discuss ‘how I did it’ in the post.
If there’s anything which particularly fascinates you, do ask and I’ll be happy to discuss same.
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Sounds good. I haven’t managed to find the time to do anything very creative with my photographs. I do very minimal editing, just crop them maybe tweak a little bit. Most of the ones I’ve posted lately are straight from my point and shoot camera since no time to edit them at all.
Do you bring your fancy cameras with you on the ship? I never do since I don’t have the room in my carry on and now we have a weight limit for our baggage on the choppers of only 18kg. I can’t even get my small bag down to that!
Most of my images too are minimally edited. With today’s point and shoot, most images can be directly uploaded.
To answer your question, Yes, I do carry my DSLR and a couple of lenses on board. Since I am serving on oil tankers, very few joinings take place by choppers. We do get the 30kg baggage allowance as per MLC 2006 (Yayee to that!).
I have been fortunate to capture many interesting images at sea. I even captured the fire on oil rig ‘Hercules’ last July, off SW Pass. In fact I was anchored 4′ off it and even relayed their distress call to USCG earlier in the day. (Maybe I’ll dig up my archives and post it here soon).
I have nominated you for a Liebster Blog Award. I enjoy your work and hope to share that with others.
My post including your nomination -> http://wp.me/p1q3If-Ms