Blurry

This post concentrates on motion/action/blur pictures.
I have been trying for quite some time to get some good motion pictures, but never really succeeded. most of the time, the subject would get cut out from the picture! There's a difference between film cameras and digital cameras, I've realised when it comes to taking motion snaps. Digital cameras, it dawned on me, in my case, react slowly as you press the button. In the case of film cameras when you are getting a motion/action snap, the roll gets moving asap. So I calculated the time when a vehicle was approaching my camears frame and pushed the button as it the subject was just about to enter the frame. Release the button when the vehicle is in the centre of your frame and Voila, you get the snap you've been wanting! It took a lot of trial and error for me to reach this exact calculation and its partly my camera's fault. I dunno what the heck is it problem with focussing on it owns like all cameras do! Sigh...

Stuck in the traffic, I had been waiting for the red BEST buses to pass by. The man's white shirt, methinks gives a nice contrast coupled with the RED bus in a blur! I took a lot of 'blur' ics with this man in focus and the vehicles and people moving about. This is the one I liked over the others!

This third picture is the one I liked better than the rest for the barbed wire is clear and so is the man that can be seen through the rickshaw, whereas the vehicle goes by in a blur! :D

All photographs have been taken through a glass window and that's the reason for the 'dull dawn' effect in the picture. (light 'grey tint' cover on the car's window).

Music: 'Amazing' by George Michael!

Meine Fotografieren blindlings

My blind photography...

50-50

Back to my Obsession: Trains!! :D

A random click, this one, without a preview to what I was capturing as the camera was placed on the ground. Luckily the picture was divided in two halves: the lower one taken up by the ground and the upper half by the surrounding environs. (D-lighting used here).

Music: "Shiver" by Coldplay!

The Montane Solitude

Quiet as dead we lay,
On that dark solitary night.
Thinking of life at play,
And of our melancholy blights.

We talked that day,
Of stars and mountains far away,
Of fate at play and
Of life; so akin to fragile clay.

Jolted and turned to frays,
We had to go, part ways.
But with hands resting underneath our heads,
We were counting silent stars instead.

I said I talk to the moon
And you said, “Talk to me,”
I said the stars are my only friends
And you bore me a, “What about me?”

I looked into your eyes so brown,
And held your gaze for a little too long.
Hot in the face, you looked away,
Unsure of keeping the promise you made that way.

In our fears, in our fights,
In the taste of tears on those lonely nights,
Standing on the vertigo heights,
Anxious for our fledgling flights,

We took the plunge,
Unafraid of the cheating grunge,
We buckled over, we knuckled under,
Defeating the afflictive thunder.

But now,
It was time to leave; upon us it dawned,
You on your way, I on mine,
Both leaving the mountains behind.


Music: "Porcelain" by Moby!

Tell me

Tell me what you think.
Tell me that nine times out of ten, those people who’re looking your way were talking about you.
Tell me they’re wrong.
Tell me they’re right.
Tell me you have a right to be right all the time.
Tell me you don't feel right all the time.
Tell me it doesn't matter to you what they say and think.
Tell me you hate it when you don't feel confident of yourself.
Tell me you feel like running away when they come near you.
Tell me you won't run away when they face you.
Tell me you believe me it's not your fault.
Tell me you are sure you did everything you could.
Tell me you did what was right.
Tell me you were faithful.
Tell me you have no reason for being guilty.
Tell me you are your own person.
Tell me you dont need anyone's approval.
Tell me you don’t care what people think.
Tell me you will love yourself more than those who are just travellers in this journey of our lives.
Tell me you don’t have flaws.
Tell me you make mistakes.
Tell me you know what your mistakes are.
Tell me that most are justified.
Tell me their opinions of you don’t affect your sense of self.
Tell me you don’t depend on their opinions of you to feel better.
Tell me they do think about you, and care to talk, whether bad or good.
Tell me it’s good.
Tell me it’s bad.
Tell me you’re satisfied.
Tell me you’re happy.
Tell me you’re at your unhappiest.
Tell me you’re not just a puppet controlled by what they think.
Tell me the puppeteer is not your desperate need for acceptance.
Tell me you’re honest.
Tell me you know me.
Tell me you know yourself.
Tell me you’re strong.
Tell me you’re not lost.
Tell me you’re less lonely that you feel.
Tell me you’re not alone.
Tell me you know what love is.
Tell me you know what hate is.
Tell me you can go to bed knowing you did the right thing.
Tell me it bothers you.
Tell me it doesn’t.
Tell me it’s not always about you.
Tell me you’re important.
Tell me I’m important.
Tell me you only give the privilege of your trust and respect to those who are worthy.
Tell me you wish you did not care too much.
Tell me you wish you did not care about people who did not care about you.
Tell me you wish other people would be as sensitive and ethical as you are.
Tell me all you wish is for some love.
Tell me you’re not blind.
Tell me you know what a friend is.
Tell me you’re not trying to prove a point.
Tell me you believe in trust.
Tell me you wish you want your trsut back.
Tell me you believe in loyalty.
Tell me you know what I want.
What I think.
What I believe.
What you believe.
What you think you believe.
Tell me you believe in yourself.
Tell me you know what I’m talking about.
Tell me you know who’s pretending.
Tell me you’re not pretending.
Tell me you don’t see how this is about you.
Tell me you’re not lying.
Tell me you’re not lying.
Go ahead.
Tell me.
I dare you.


This post has been penned by my friend G. I have just made a few modifications here and there. I so relate to this post. And G put it the best possible way. I do not know how else I would have put it. Thank You G! :)

Music: "Soul Meets Body" by Death Cab For Cutie!

Motion, Thoughts, Emotions...

Ain't got anything spectacular to say...
Though I was jus randomly thinking about certain things...completely irrelevant information, but it just intrigued me to know that docs in Belgium are going to amputate Mozart the Iguana's penis (maybe they already did. Stale news this is!) because of an erection that has lasted more than a week after a mating session. Luckily, iguanas have two penises.

Sidney Sheldon passed away.... Well, I dont really look upto his style of writing. He even has all the same masala for all of his novels but I admit I enjoyed reading most of them. But I was a crazy fan of "I Dream Of Genie"....Sigh....I was one crazy kid who would just get glued to the television way before the show started. I also had a crush on that Nelson guy! ;-)

Motion

Motion

1600 hours.
Really strong sun.

Kite
Motion

These Kites were quite close.
I didnt need to zoom in!
Motion

Thoughts, Emotions

Dinshaw Wachcha Road. Outside K.C College.
Guy selling the really popular raw mango slices with the usual masala to go with it.

A photographic sojourn...

Afghan Church, Colaba.

Haji Ali.

Creation --->Maintenance --->Destruction

I was just thinking as to how fragile life is… everything is so delicate and we seldom do realise this. Be it love, relationships, friends, life, a thought or a strand of hair, it all is fragile...

Dams do overflow
And you do break mentally
After the volcano
Peaceful sobs persist
The satisfaction of letting go…
…letting go triumphs!
Life is perfect.

Lately, I have started to believe in the Universal Law three things. I lived in denial when my father explained the law to me and I said that some things are forever. But it’s not so. Everything ends and yes, not always on a good note! So the Law that I’m talking about is that of:

Creation ---> Maintenance ---> Destruction