Photography

Photography is an art where creative elements are mixed with science.You need to master your instrument before you get the right calculated and expected results. In the world of digital revolution in imaging, the technology moves at a spritning pace.

I feel creative self satisfaction is very important. It is very important how you compose a subject and what type of photography you choose. The human eye is the supreme judgement maker about a shoot.

The basics of a SLR camera are very simple. SLR is the abbreviation for SINGLE LENSE REFLEX CAMERA. Learning() is a tough task, it is easy to read but it take time and experience to implement them successfully.

In simple the perfection come through experience and understanding the errors. make your eye extra ordinary to catch the best view.

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Monsoon

Monsoon, I would say the most beautiful expression of Mother Nature. Majority of the readers might think it is not, because we cannot go out, we cannot wear the favorite shoes. All around us is wet and cold. You might even think …am I too crazy?

 

But if you have imaginative mind to think about the emotions of the moments, when the first monsoon clouds gather around the dry land. How many of you might have noticed the welcoming cry of frogs hiding near the pots in your mom’s garden. I have noticed them. I was amazed how they know the rain is going to come. Isn’t it amazing? Mother nature is amazing.

 

When I come back to the rain, I have enjoyed the heavy shower of the initial monsoon days. When you drive around the sea shore or river banks you can see the dark red muddy mixed water. The land is washed out and taken away all the dirt.

 

How many of you have enjoyed the monsoon cricket on the sea shore, where the sea is very arrogant and always like to grab your wickets. Don’t you remember when you played with paper boats.

 

Still I remember the moments when I felt so happy to catch a tiny fish with a black stripe on the side of the body, which resembles the JET AIRWAYS planes. I remember a speciall skill of throwing flat stone on the surface of placid water boddies. The stone

Used to Slip on the water surface producing a series of water splashes and subside after the momentum is lost. It was scary to notice some hiding non venomous water snakes around the streams.

 

Where are those days, is economic boom and modernization grabbed all the paddy field and streams. Are they buried under the development? Is only roads important than the streams. Is it going to be a museum for such past ecosystem? I have noticed these days King fishers are hardly able to find water to dive and catch a fish. Rather they prefer to catch grasshopper or bugs. Are we experiencing the worst transition mode. Are we just spectators or do we need to act?

 

I hope those rainy days were more beautiful than these where I could see the rain drops hitting the floor. From the roofs it made a water curtains. But these days the water harvesting has taken them away to the storage tanks. Some times I think the ancestors of humans shouldn’t have descended from the trees.

 

So how many of you really like the rain!

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The change of time has brought the change of life.

I was just rewinding about those teenage days, where there were no emails and no chats and how tough it was to have few friends through penpals. The curiosity and excitements it brought when the few first snail mails of the big bundle of mails to be followed soon.

How polite and reactive was the external departments, How wonderfull was to recive an airmail from different parts of the world. The aroma of the cover and even the materials they used in covers.

 

Even those days how tough was to get updates about the European football, the Indian Express were looking too shabby with low quality newsprint available those days. In the Sunday pages Talveen Singh looked so young when I see her in Times now or Cnn IBN these days.

 

When I looked around the roaring business of Laterite natural stone business used to be carried out with all American mini trucks from FORD ,DODGE, BEDFORD or FARGO.The monster like face with red grills and popped out headlights. The amazing antique looks has vanished from the roads.

 

 

Changes are inevitable but what exactly it makes or serves the human life. Is it just comfort or beyond those? When I think of chatting with my friend in USA at a single IM, I feel it really has brought more meaning to life. So changes are and should be part of our life.

 

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Thoughts

It is indeed a great thing to be born as a humanbeing. Look around us..different type of people with different type of thoughts and dreams. Some are unique..Why all are not like him?

This is an interesting question always thought of asking a successfull man. Have any one thought about the routines and systematic apporach with die hard conviction and long term plans of those individuals?

I belive very few thought about those pain he had..in reaching his mile stones..Majoirty will be just envying his achivements and glory. beyond that how many might got inspired to follow his path..How many might have followed his path and crumbled on situations..Forgetting his role model came out of those dust and proved his metal.

It is a miracle to see all copy cats reaching what they thought and dreamed. Dont you feel a genuine hunger to reach a goal is the only motivating factor for becoming successfull in life or career. How many of us enjoy the career genuinly?

It is a tricky question to shoot at this point. Majority of us look for monetary aspects of a career rather than enjoying its real ecstacy. why cant all learn the art of loving a career.

May be they came to a career because of some incidents , there were no genuine reasons for it. Is life only of career? I feel life is beyond a career..career moulds you to certain extend. Apart from that life is a process where you should set milestones to reach. I heard the successfull people sets milestones till their last breathe. They dont feel they are old or worn out.

Ultimatley life should be enjoyed rather than being in gloomy..it should be full of bright lights and sparkles. The dark days can be defneitly be there but the brightness can be brought in if your mind says and feel to light it up……!

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Creative Thoughts

It is an interesting process to understand how creative ideas are generated. Again it is based on few factors… I have seen designers, especially web and graphic designers getting their ideas from different elements. I have seen they generates ideas from nature to books. In the middle of outsourcing where design is like a readymade cake. It is a fast forward world where enthusiasm overtakes the tasks.

The contribution of a designer to based ona time limit is where he establishes him self. the stress is a factor where satisfaction is based on the customers expectation. So ideas generated should be in line with what the customer expects.

I have heard about the creative block, where the designer is not able to visualize and produce outputs which is premium to his calibre. He lacks in creatvitiy and felt as if his brain is drained…no creative juices flow any more.

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