Celebrity Life
#WTFNaina : Collect Experiences, for Free
First email received ( a generic press release type in my opinion – giving a bit of information, fishing for any possibilities ) : Greetings! We would like to…
#WTFNaina : 5 Minutes of Your Time
The subject of this email was “URGENT”. In my experience, it never is. It is usually someone passing on their incompetence to me. And I’m never interested. But it…
#WTFNaina : We Make Money But You Don’t You Silly Photographer You
The offending email ( from an internationally renowned, India-based design school no less ) : Dear Naina, Thanks for your response and Greetings from India! India is coming up…
#WTFNaina : Cordially Invited to Work for Free
In today’s edition of #WTFNaina, I give you an email that is representative of a large number of emails I receive on a weekly basis : Hi! You are…
#WTFNaina : We Love Bloggers
Email received : Hi Naina, My name is <redacted> and I am the co-founder of <redacted>. <redacted> is a fashion QnA platform that helps bloggers as well. For our upcoming…
#WTFNaina : Need To Meet You
No you don’t. Now that that’s out of the way, here’s a longer explanation. Email from stranger : Hi Naina, I need to meet you regarding a brand…
#WTFNaina : Press Releases
Would you be ok with me sending you an email each time I published a blog post on this blog? Some of you might say yes. Some of you…
Harper’s Bazaar, September 2016 #EyesForPrint
After having thought about this idea for all of five minutes, here it is on the blog. I miss looking at print magazines. I LOVE print. As a photographer, apart…
In The Name of GUCCI, Book Review in Business Today, The Luxury Issue 2016 #CoverUp 85
Writing book reviews is fun. And I don’t mean that THAT simplistically. The entire process is fun. Especially when one is writing on a deadline, for a publication like Business…
We’re Sisters
In terms of years, she’s about seven years younger than I am. But in terms of being zen and peaceful, she has decades on me. “So, Akanksha is the…
#WTFNaina : All Expenses Paid
The number of emails I receive about “FAM” trips is NUTS. For those of you unfamiliar with this term, “FAM” is short for “Familiarization”. Brands have been known to…
Ladakh, It Is Late #LandscapePhotography
Not many sunset or night photographs from Ladakh but it was a riot of colours at this one particular point before the Pangong Tso. These are from the 2010…