Software engineer by profession, photographer by passion.
Based in the Bay Area, California, I spend my weekdays crafting efficient, user-friendly applications—and my weekends chasing light, color, and untamed beauty through the lens. My photography gravitates toward landscapes, nature, and wildlife, capturing moments that inspire awe and reflection.

As a software engineer, I pursue clarity—systems built with precision, purpose, and pattern. It’s a world of logic, where structure reigns and every outcome is carefully shaped.

Photography, by contrast, brings stillness. No breakpoints, deadlines, roadmaps—just instinct, timing and quite presence. A sudden shift in light, change in the wind, the glance of a wild—these moments aren't programmed, they're felt. Nature doesn’t wait for my workflow. It moves to its own rhythm—and I must follow.

Through landscape, nature, and wildlife photography, I explore the same patterns that fascinate me in code: rhythm, symmetry, transformation. Each frame becomes a bridge between two worlds—one built, one breathed.

My camera is a compiler for emotion.
Each frame, a variable I don't try to define—just feel, capture, and carry with me.

Thank you for your time and I hope you enjoy my images.

Hemant Kulkarni.