

Girish Rathna
- Oct 4
- 3 min
Temple Run!!!
Everything happens at the will of God, they say. Even a blade of grass swaying to the gentle breeze in a field on a summer afternoon...


Girish Rathna
- Sep 20
- 1 min
Porsche affair!!!
Every time I travel abroad, one of the many things I usually do is take pictures of supercars. Regardless of how busy or how on the clock...


Girish Rathna
- Sep 6
- 2 min
Style!!!
Abu Dhabi, the capital of UAE is one of the wealthiest cities on the planet. This is the city that introduced ATMs for gold bars where...


Girish Rathna
- Jul 12
- 6 min
Creative-Bridge!!!
The above pic was that ‘now’ moment when I took the picture on my camera seconds before forwarding my foot to step on the iconic...


Girish Rathna
- Jun 28
- 2 min
Days of yore!!!
Remember, the most morally corrupt, morally nasty and morally vile people are the ones who are quick to demand morality. On the seesaw of...


Girish Rathna
- Mar 29
- 3 min
War on Good (looking)!!!
The above pic was when I was relaxed in a calm serenity on an island by a yacht, not far from the southern coast of Singapore. One of the...


Girish Rathna
- Mar 15
- 2 min
Kneel on seabed!!!
Sailing away from the shore, just a GPS to track our location at sea, with a professional team of divers and one sailor, the above pic...


Girish Rathna
- Feb 22
- 3 min
Finding Yeti…!!!
Setting the timer on my Canon EOS, letting it sit haphazardly on the frozen earth at ground level, no tripod, no camera man, no pro zoom...


Girish Rathna
- Jun 29, 2022
- 1 min
Queen’s seat!!!
Wonderfully engineered and crafted with red sandstone, I am short of words to express this ancient structure’s magnificence. Yet, I can...


Girish Rathna
- Jun 22, 2022
- 1 min
Too little, too late!!!
Have said it before, say it again – “When you know you have already touched the top, barking dogs don’t bother you”. I am not much of an...


Girish Rathna
- Feb 2, 2022
- 1 min
Hello World!
Hello World, this is my first post since penkcil.com changed to a new server.


Girish Rathna
- Dec 15, 2021
- 1 min
Remember in December...!!!
After enduring one of the most unprecedented years in 2020, the above pics were during my little shopping time on Christmas Eve....


Girish Rathna
- Sep 15, 2021
- 1 min
Miniature Sketching...!
A city’s skyline defines the basic aspect of any city, an easily recognizable silhouette that is unique to its own. Recently, during work...


Girish Rathna
- Mar 8, 2021
- 1 min
Himalayan Traverse!!! (video)
My latest music video for Himalayan Traverse, released! This is the biggest production I have done for any video so far, and remember...


Girish Rathna
- Nov 11, 2020
- 2 min
Arrival!!!
The Universe is roughly 14 billion years old. Our Sun is around 4.6 billion years old. Our home planet Earth is like 4.5 billion years...


Girish Rathna
- Nov 2, 2020
- 2 min
Game Fête!!!
Video games are my favourite. Prince of Persia and PacMan on antique 90s DOS computers in my school were my first. And they were never...


Girish Rathna
- Oct 3, 2020
- 2 min
Metal to Metal!!!
They say the world is full of ‘snakes’. By that, they mean ‘people’ who are wicked. But I wonder if the world is full of them, there got...


Girish Rathna
- Sep 22, 2020
- 1 min
Space March!!!
Looking sporty with blue shades, this was a selfie I remember taking inside of an aeroplane hangar. The first time I co-piloted an...


Girish Rathna
- Sep 2, 2020
- 3 min
The Buffet!!!
Standing amazed at the sight of one of the largest food courts in the world, the above pic was an orientation of being blessed with good...


Girish Rathna
- Jul 22, 2020
- 2 min
Himalayan Traverse!!!
The above pic was taken during one of the most contemplative moments of my traverse in the Himalayas. It was one of those places where I...