IT'S A PHOTOGRAPHER THING..!!

Photography is not a big deal if you have a lot of time to spend for it. Fishing and photography are two things that need an equipment and hell load of patience. So you don’t call yourself a professional just coz you own a DSLR. There are people who get themselves a swanky DSLR and shoot around during parties in auto mode and also there are these "tag maniacs" who post all your awkward photos and tag you and before you realize what just happened you become the latest clown among your gang of friends. The reason we just behave ourselves and miss being our true selves is there are too many shutterbugs around and the last thing you need is an ugly picture of you on face book. Social outings are not anymore the way they used to be. Sometimes I get carried away and I will have to remind myself "stick to the topic idiot...!"

Now the photographers who call themselves professional will have a photography page with a display picture of them holding their DSLR. They are the real photographers who take photography so serious that they would travel 600 miles to take one fucking picture that they can download from the internet for free. But these are the people who see photography as an art and not just as a hobby. Photoshop is as important as taking the photo though amateurs manage with Picasa. The watermark on a photo enunciates that the photograph is by a professional or a wannabe professional. While some take photos for the sheer love of it there are others who take photos to convey something. I could identify myself in the latter coz I prefer to take a picture of a cat chasing a dog than of a sunset in the beach. While there are hundreds who click regular insensitive stuffs there are only a few who capture moments in their snaps. I would rather hunt for a week to capture one rare moment than spending a whole day in an isolated place shooting and filling the memory card. However passion, hobby and sensibleness’ are three different things in photography. It’s never too late to start photography.

 “Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.” – Ansel Adams

“I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.” ― Rosie O'Donnell

“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.” ― Susan Sontag

“For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.”

― Henri Cartier-Bresson