How bird photography made me a better chemist

Bird looking at binoculars

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Payal Joshi draws inspiration for organic mechanisms from graceful avian poses

My fascination with bird photography started when I came across stunning bird pictures shared by expert photographers on Twitter (now X). Inspired by this, I started photographing birds to share them on social media. At first, I began noticing the eye detailing, species differences and their unique behaviour in the natural habitat.However, the pursuit of photographing birds deepened when I visualised birds as not just enigmatic creatures, but as living metaphors of organic chemistry.