I am Karthika Gopalakrishnan – Recipe Creator, Photographer and Content Developer of Karthi's Kitchen Studio, an accidental software developer, a passionate foodie who would travel miles for crispy samosas, bathroom singer, a crazy explorer of food, a chatterbox, a voracious reader who can spend entire day with books, a true coffee lover who enjoys it without diluting with sugar and insanely interested in everything. Call me a nitwit, but this is me and all of me.
I am an engineer who graduated in the field of Electronics with the thought of working with semiconductors and finally, landed in the Software Industry (which most of the Indian Engineers do and I am not an exception) because of typical middle class mentality to earn lucrative salaries instantly after my graduation and with clue of programming in the initial days of my career, now a .Net developer with a thirst to learn and code in the latest cutting-edge programming language with an inclined affinity towards Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.
I had numerous interests when I grew up without any defined passion but ended up in discovering my passion once I settled in Chennai for my job. I discovered the foodie in me, my desire to learn about cooking, discovering new cuisines, finding solace in preparing exotic dishes and serving my loved ones. My stay with my brother for three years in Chennai helped me to groom my culinary skills, experiment various dishes, exploring fancy options for healthy ingredients and a thirst to prepare exotic delicacies at home. I started my journey of cooking once I moved to the US to spend my lonely time creatively with my favorite therapeutic activity – Cooking. Very good responsive messages for my food-related posts in social media helped me to create a platform to document my recipes and share it with a wider audience through a blog. That’s how – KarthisKitchenStudio was born with the efforts from many good souls – Vinith (Logo Designer), SAN (Website Developer and Techie), my family and friends (my support system who encourages, criticizes and tries out my recipes)
KarthisKitchenStudio is now 2 years old and brought the foodie in me, not only the foodie Karthi but also made me realize that I love photography and identified the Photographer Karthi in Me.
My photography journey started once I bought my Canon EOS 6d Camera in the year 2015. Back then, I was shooting with auto mode without any knowledge about the art. Blogging helped me to learn about food photography and always a good picture of food reaches many hearts. I read articles, followed leading bloggers and more than everything, I practiced a lot. And there is still a long way but I do take decent photos as of now (at least I feel so). I recently started travel photography for my travelogue and now, photography has become a part of my life.
My gear
My gear includes 50 MM (Prime for Food Photography) and 100 MM (Macro for Food Photography) and 24-70 MM (Zoom Wide Angle Lens for landscapes)
Karthi’s Kitchen Studio
My studio consists of tried recipes in my kitchen, travelogues about the places I visited with recommendations, the gallery where I post my experiments about photography and musings. I have a future plan to include photography tutorial and review about my favorite food joints.
I thank my readers for their support and encouragement. Thank you for supporting me and let’s learn more, share more, click more and live more.
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Thanks,
Karthi
