Impressing is your job, expressing is mine.

More than a century and half's passed ever since Joseph Nicephore Niepce (I missed two accents aiguilles in there) invented the photographic camera in 1827. Thousands have mastered the art since and there are a couple of billion cameras in the world today. And you thought, in all these years those wanna-be photographers were extinct.

Unfortunately, they are not . These closet photosophers come to the surface once in a while with a borrowed camera and lots of inspiration. They take pictures of commonday things expecting great photographs; look at their own pictures; frown; shake their heads and delete them. Then after three million and thirty seven tries and half that number of wasted dry cells, they finally get a photo they can look at, smile, come back to their world and go home for dinner. And then they sit on Photoshop and apply pretty weird effects thanx to which the picture finally looks tolerable to the human eye. And unfortunatelyfor you, I am one of them.

I always had a fascination for still photography, which i did not pursue thanx to Nikon and Cannon who price those digi SLRs at above 50,000.

When I finally decided to start some serious shooting, there were two forces behind it. One was Scott Kelby whose book on photography has been very enlightenig and whose poor sense of humor matches mine. (By the way if u ARE Scott Kelby, ignore that last sentence, you have an amazingly rib tickling collection of jokes. If, you are not, then ignore the last sentence, I was lying)

The second's ma friend who drove me to the edge of the cliff above the sea of jealousy (yeah, I am a retired poet) by bragging about her photography lessons every fifteen seconds. (Not bragging actually, t was just narration, at times, enlightening and eventually, motivating).

(And not exactly every fifteen seconds either)


So, I borrowed a Digi SLR from ma fren who is also my Junior (And who has still photography as a part of his course. Why do all good things happen to batches after yours?), a tripod from another close friend and hopefully a lens from another in the recent future (read tomorrow)

And just a day before I started, I took another Digi, which was not SLR and which belonged to another close friend of mine and shot some pics for practice.

And here I am posting those pics. Firstly, because they show how bad my sense of photography is; secondly,they are gros so that might make you want to visit my blog again. And thirdly, when I put up other photos in future, you'll know how much I have improved (and by God's grace, that might even happen)








(That was one hell of a cobra they killed near an undisclosed location, just in case animal rights activists are viewing this. Notice the shallow depth of field, with the background out of focus.
(If you are a genuine photographer, I know u must be saying "This guy can't use lenses for nuts)






(I think this one's a pretty nice view of one of the most useful corners in my house. And just in case you want to know how good I am at manipulating photos with softwares, try this: http://www.orkut.com/AlbumZoom.aspx?uid=12446339638028837856&pid=11)

"The joy of photography lies in making look beautiful what people would say "Gros!"

-Me

And for those who regularly vistit ma blog (That's a sizeable 0.000007% of the world's population, unless you are a forst timer, which would make it 0.0000076), I know i promised to post Chakeela's photo. Sorry to dissapoint you, I promise that will happen soon).

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