To colour or not to colour....

Got hold of my camera after around 3 months except for capturing friends and family. Anirban Mukherjee, my school buddy has the claim to credit this time. He was too eager to test his skills and new camera at Kumortuli, Kolkata. A new thing happened this time. Well, this is not new, it used to happen when I didn't have a digital camera. Took just a few photographs as if I had limited gates in my film roll.

Upon seeing the photographs, I realized that I've mostly captured photographs with a co existence of monochrome and colours. Honestly, this idea of grouping never came to me before I started creating this blog post.

The building blocks of clay Idol. Hay is used to make the basic structure of all those clay idols we see. This beautiful colour is eventually covered with black mud and then again colour is used to make those beautiful idols we see. Isn't it kind of resurrection?

Does chilli taste hot in the ears too? Mahishasur doesn't seem very happy with a chilli pierced through his ears to make a hole for ornamentation.

Peace in war zone. Actually something else came to my mind on seeing this scene. Can the cats distinguish between human beings and fierce human figures? Leave apart the human figures. How could he sleep so peacefully in front of such a big cat?

Red & White. No really, I don't have any intention to promote any brand here. actually, it seemed to me as if the provider of success and the well renowned savior are sitting in front of a court house. Redemption guaranteed.

Colours of muse. What else could I say?

Dancing Illumination

Buying a digital camera was a hasty decision that I never regretted. I've been using my Vivitar film SLR camera regularly till the end of 2008. On processing the films after a trip from Mussoorie, India, I got too upset with the bluish tone and horizontal lines in the images. Within almost no time bought my first digital camera, a Canon Powershot SX10 IS. Initial indoor snaps were good with flash. But I wanted to see it's performance outdoors. What could be better than visiting the picturesque Surajkund handicrafts fair in Faridabad?

The very first of my experiment with dancing lights was the above one. The image of course didn't depict any meaning to my eyes but I loved it.

Abrupt and unplanned movements of the camera produced many such images. I was so excited that I braved the dirt filled air for long time and kept adjusting various exposures. This was the day when I realized that small apertures can do magic. At 100 ISO and minimum possible aperture, the low shutter speed and movement of camera did the magic.

To me, this one is the best among those first pictures of the kind. This one was made by a planned movement of the camera. I wanted the human figures to be recognizable but not prominent. Also, for the first time, it was not a two dimensional movement of the camera. I moved it on a 2-D plane but alongside, walked backwards. However, some magic can never be computed mathematically.