Not In The Details
Before we get into the meat of the post, a masala…err, caveat, in the form of a conversation with a friend.
Take a pic!
I don’t have a camera on me.
Use your phone!
This piece of shit? Nope. I only do good photos.
Ah well. I only do good sights even if the images aren’t good. Is that too much of a compromise?
Not in my esteemed opinion. Besides I’m a chronic thinker, not a chronic genius. And I’m in a city that clings to civilization just about, not a model of perfection. So save the comments on how blurry the photos are, how I should have used a triple-resolution grade A filter (or something like that). If you can’t make out what my photographs are, I’ll spell them out for you!! Yeah, A.E., that’s a special note to you! :mrgreen:
Now to proceed to the main course….
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Love is looking in the same direction….or into the same mobile phone! This is two of my friends leaning in together to look at a photograph of themselves that I took from two floors above and sent to them. A picture of them looking at a picture of them.
And up above, a balloon that broke free of its unknown owner (a very disappointed 3-year-old? A bratty squealer? A woebegone pink-clad princess?). Unfortunately for it, the ceiling proved to be a bit tougher to break free of. I wonder if anyone can get up there, to the top of the cone on the ceiling. If not, that silly sunflower balloon is doomed to spend the rest of its warm hours inside a crowded mall.
If it could speak, it would probably say,
I wish I’d stayed with my owner. At least I’d have gotten to see the world outside!
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My photographs don’t turn out too good but what the hey, I saw romance and fantasy in the middle of a crowded Mumbai mall! Just call me an artist with an unsteady hand.
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1rambler
wrote on 27 August 2008 at 14:51
clarity is in the thought not in its sight
ramblers last blog post..Goalies.
2prasoon
wrote on 27 August 2008 at 15:30
“an artist with an unsteady hand” – hehe – so be it
prasoons last blog post..Tring tring…
3Roop
wrote on 27 August 2008 at 15:40
i think the moment is more important than the aesthetics … so im with ya. make sense? do i? i seldom do. :/
Roops last blog post..Miracle of Love
4Brad
wrote on 27 August 2008 at 18:37
Now, you should have used that Triple Resolution Grade-A+ filter that I mentioned the last time! Shame on you – thou artist with an unsteady hand.
Btw, this comment formed in my head even before I got to the A.E. referral; so it was even more amusing!
Cavil – A person with an unsteady hand can’t be an artist, nei? A bad artist, perhaps! 
5Sumit
wrote on 27 August 2008 at 19:10
If you don’t have the skill, don’t blame the sword…
Sumits last blog post..Shooting Restaurants – Interior and Food
6Ashwin
wrote on 27 August 2008 at 19:53
Hmmm
7Adithya
wrote on 27 August 2008 at 23:32
Whattey presence of mind!
Adithyas last blog post..Vaarnam Aayiram
8kalyan
wrote on 28 August 2008 at 8:20
I guess when it comes to food to the photo has to be appetising or one needs to depends on words
kalyans last blog post..Majestic Stuff: Royal China
9Anon Y. Mouse
wrote on 28 August 2008 at 8:28
Yes, it is too much of a compromise. Images aren’t about information only – they CAN be more than that, and I don’t see why we can’t try and be more with what we have instead of claiming Parkinson’s.
10Rukmani Ram
wrote on 28 August 2008 at 18:39
What phone was this, now?
Rukmani Rams last blog post..In our stride
11Ankesh Kothari
wrote on 29 August 2008 at 0:26
Taking good photographs is very similar to writing insightful posts. You need to cut a frame around the topic so that its poignant and without un-essential fluff. And you need a unique angle.
You have both.
So unless you get a better camera phone, the world will lose out on many a amazing photos.
12A Cynic in Wonderland
wrote on 29 August 2008 at 9:57
phone is drunk on vodka and photography?
A Cynic in Wonderlands last blog post..Me, Myself and Money management
13Ms Taggart
wrote on 29 August 2008 at 12:36
That photo of ur friends looking at themselves is cute..
Btw, I realized one sad day that I cannot take pictures of people.. But I can take great landscapes..
Ms Taggarts last blog post..No toxins please..
14chandni
wrote on 1 September 2008 at 11:36
I completely agree! Its what catches the eye than how it gets represented on the lens
way to go!
chandnis last blog post..It happens only to Chandu!
15IdeaSmith
wrote on 10 September 2008 at 12:33
@ rambler: Deep that is.
@ prasoon, Adithya, chandni:
@ Roop: I totally get you. Am with you too.
@ Brad, Sumit: Slap! Slap! Slap!
@ Ashwin:
@ kalyan: That is true.
@ Anon Y.Mouse: I didn’t claim any such thing. But photography just isn’t as big a deal with me as the text is. So forgive me for not being a genius in everything.
@ Rukmani Ram: Mera naya Nokia Moojik AyexPraysss…
@ Ankesh: That’s convincing. Point taken. I’ll work on it.
@ Cynic: Sounds like me, na?
@ Ms Taggart: They’re a cute couple too! And we have multiple, limited talents.