David Shirsat Photography

Name: David Shirsat Photography
Address: Pune, IN

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I am a Photographer who loves taking pictures that have a story to tell. I love Landscape photograph

24/03/2026

“The Retirement Shot”

We started our journey at 1 am and after travelling for 2 and a half hours on a chilly summer night, we finally reached our destination. I set up my tripod and camera and got the process started underneath a sky fulls of stars with the wind piercing me right to my bones making me tremble and shiver. (I forgot to carry a jacket!)

After chasing this dream through sleepless nights, missed chances, and more failures than I can count… I finally stood still long enough for our galaxy to meet me halfway.

Multiple failures, clouds always spoiling plans (my friends will attest - David’s plans are cursed with clouds). We have gone on at least three trips now that have been ruined by clouds. This photo also belongs to my friends who had no reason to keep coming with me over and over again. Richard, Praneet, Vishal, Amit, Samson and Immanuel. Thanks guys!

For me, this isn’t just a photograph. It’s persistence, patience, hard work, hours and days of learning tips and tricks and a quiet reminder that some things are worth waiting a lifetime for.

But here’s the lesson, eventually persistence and determination to achieve a target pays off, the clouds will part and the sky will put on a show, the stars will illuminate for you. And I’m not just saying this in terms of photography, but in life too.

So, if you have plans and targets with passion in your heart just keep going and you’ll definitely get there.

This is a photo that’s taken more than 2 years and multiple failures in the making. Hence, the title, “The Retirement Shot”

15/12/2025

I’ve been chasing a photograph like this for years!

After multiple failed attempts that included losing memory cards that had all the meteor pics in 2017, to cloudy skies on the last two attempts over the past two years, to hiring photography gear worth a lot of money only to get to the location and see 100% cloud coverage in the middle of an Indian summer. I’ve attempted to shoot multiple comets as well and needless to say, the story was the same.

This year, after having another failed attempt in the summer trying to shoot the summer Milky Way core, it looked like all the stars had finally aligned (pun intended) for me to capture the Geminid meteor shower.

With fingers crossed, I hired gear again, and asked my friends to tag along. Luckily, there were 5 others who shared a similar level of excitement to see the Meteor shower. With a 0% chance of clouds, the odds seemed wonderfully stacked in my favor. At least that’s what I thought.

We were supposed to leave at 6pm, get there early, scout for locations and setup our gear. Unsurprisingly, we ended up waiting an eternity. This time with no clouds to hamper proceedings, it looked like my friends took over in that role. One, hesitant to get out of his house in fear of an apparent traffic ‘gridlock’ and the other stuck with a work appointment on the other side of the city with a dead phone. The 3rd one, was with a relative who was admitted in the hospital while three of us waited for nearly 3 hours.

As time passed, it looked like this was another failed attempt likely to suffer the same fate as all the others before it.

But, that changed. Richie showed up and we left. Finally.
We reached almost at midnight and once we got out of the cars, the sky put on a magnificent show.

We saw 100’s of meteors, so many that we lost count, literally. We had our jaws drop open multiple times. We laid down on a sheet in the grass with the skies above us and nothing but meteors raining down all around us. Yes, it was incredibly beautiful.

I think at the end of it all, I can safely say, it was all worth it. There’s a lot more I can say but I think, for now, this will suffice.

Nikon D5200 + Nikkor AF-S 14-24 f2.8

16/12/2024

Yesterday’s Full Moon 🌕 which was also the last full moon of 2024!
Hope you all had a wonderful year. Hoping to get some great pics in the upcoming year 🤞🏻
🌕 #2024 #2025

13/10/2024

For the ones in the UK and the US posting Aurora Borealis pictures from your front yards and what not😄 we here in Pune, India, were blessed with some amazing skies as well.
The view from our Salisbury Park Football ground shot on my phone.

04/04/2024

Shot this composite of the full moon overlooking the Salisbury Park campus towards the eastern sky on 25-3-24 at around 7:30 pm.
The aim was to get the moon as low to the horizon as possible but due to the city pollution and heavy haze it wasn’t to be. So settled for a moon higher up in the sky.
Shot the foreground with a Nikon 50mm 1.8 and the moon with a Tamron 70-300 mm.

12/02/2024

Took this picture with the iPhone 15 plus at 5:45 am just before sunrise. Couldn’t believe what my eyes were seeing.
If you haven’t experienced the night (dark) sky in all its glory you have missed out big time. Get as far away from city and village lights as you can and just look up. Trust me, it’ll change your mindset forever.

The bright star in the centre of the picture is Antares, the brightest star of the constellation Scorpius. And below that is part of the Milky Way Galaxy core as seen from Earth.

10/07/2023

Wedding details shot by me for Gordon and Hannah

30/04/2023

Tower Bridge, London, UK. Shot on phone.

23/04/2023

Ceunant Mawr Waterfalls in Wales, UK. Shot this on my phone, OnePlus 6T.

23/02/2023

The partial Solar Eclipse as seen from Salisbury Park Ground on 25th October 2022. Looking towards the Marathi Church with the silhouette of Mahaveer Residency showing on the left side of the image.

Shot with my trusty old Nikon D5200 and the stock 18-55mm lens with a Nisi 10 stop ND filter.

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