Photo-Camera-Life

Well I have started with a National 35 camera from one of my relative. Then from 1991 I started shooting with SLR cameras. I do not remember years of their use, but here are list of them mostly in chronological order starting from start. 1) Praktica MTL5 or something 2) Another Praktica, this time a beyonet mount with apperture priority (got damaged by a dear friend) 3) Zenith E 4) Minolta SRT 101 5) Nikon F50 6) Nikon FM2 - took most of my slide films with it. 7) Pentax Spotmatic - real MMM 8) Canon EOS 620 - Serious, intelligent, practical camera 9) EOS 630 10) EOS 650 11) EOS 1 HS - a beast, a working monster 12) Canon QL GIII - I wish I get another GIII in digital era. I have never enjoyed any other camera as much as this one. But this realization came late. Before that, I gifted it to a friend. 13) Yashica FX3 - A beauty with muscle. I made it up with wonderful leathers. With another friend now. 14) Canon 350D - first DSLR, almost like a gift. 15) Pentax k100D ...

One of my dear friend Himadri once raised this query with some very valid points in some other posts which I thought of bringing under discussion (without asking him though). 1) When we see colour in our eyes, we can develop, print in colour so easily then why should we still continue making B/W? 2) We had discovered B/W first, that is why we have used B/W. Otherwise we would have continue colour. I think B/W has its own merits and de-merits. B/W is un real as it has only shades of grey, that attracts us at first. B/W also can easily hides distraction (chaos) that otherwise different colours bring so easily. Only shades of grey brinsgs out forms, shapes, graphics better in some situations. I personally have started using digital photography when one of the reasons was the freedom and easy access to get B/W images and their prints. Getting B/W prints from films was getting difficult and costly. What you all have to say here?

Well, I feel uncomfortable when I do not have an MMM camera with me. I feel happy while swinging the film transport lever and listening to the shutter sound of cloth shutter of yester year. So, I bought a Pentax MX from an old man living in a 100 years old house. I got a 100mm f4 1:2 macro lens too. I will be shooting some slides whenever I will go to mountain again. Slides are something...... Do any of you guys feel like that.

These thoughts..realisation came to my mind...thought of sharing them with you. The main reason of doing photography is not creating art! Actually it is the joy of capturing time, colour! Capturing essence of time! In a way photography tells us science is more closely attached to life than ART although art is with human being from the start too! Art actually connects with mind but science have already captured all your senses by then. Before I use photography tools for art, I start enjoying the science part of it. The capturing part of it. Because our mind (brain) in both its parts is first of all a child then a decision maker.

Thoughts circling inside me Here are thoughts that circles....  Having no work for the 2nd half…I start typing one day to spend it in a good way… I think photography sometimes is art. Art to me is an expression of emotion. Photographs can express emotions, and sometimes fail to do so too. Does that mean that when I say “WOW” seeing a photograph, it is an art? Is WOW for the content of the photograph or for the technique? Sometimes it is for the technique. I did that many times when I see solar eclipse shot having 12 suns in one shot and they are perfectly exposed. Do you try to see composition in everything? Graphical balance, lines, curves, sketch like fastness in photographs? Yes, I do. I still do not know why B/W is good but most of the good B/W photos attract my eyes. Why? Is it because it is simple, because lines, curves, shapes are more pronounced there than in colour shots. Do you see photographs just the way you see a painting? Yes I do. Do you compose a shot...

Abudhabi Durgapujo - Festival of goddess on the land of god In abudhabi, amidst land of dessert, sand, dust, within the rules of the king, Bengalis have their cultural symbol of living in the name of Goddess Durga. I have been their for 5 nights and tried to capture what strikes me being a Bengali sometime and an observer for the rest. Here are first three...rest are coming. Please note, the puja, gathering, celebration, cultural programmes, get together happens within two small air conditioned halls. And the deities are actually paintings on glass as Abudhabi does not allow any idol in threedimension. For Goddess, it is a compromise in a limited space For some it is a mere formality and time to recapitulate   For them it is a good get together and space of freedom