Are you Instagramed yet?

Instagram is the newest rage that has hit the digital world. Especially if you notice it on sites like Facebook and Twitter, and if you have either one, chances are you’ve seen the glossy, filtered Smartphone photos. If not, then go ahead and look up that one Facebook friend who posts ten pictures a day of him- or herself doing mundane things like eating lunch and riding in the car.

Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger developed it in San Francisco in October 2010 due to their interest in mobile photography.

Thanks to surprisingly good-quality camera phones and apps like Instagram, the days of using a dark room or a big fancy camera to take cool photographs are over. So why is everyone using Instagram? Studies have shown that Instagram users have the intention of creating beautiful art and joining communities with this relatively new app.

Definitely photography is still easier than ever. And I am happy enough that the app is seriously helping users to get back to mobile phone clicking which has recently vanished into the sky cos of the cheap deals on digital cameras.

Personally, I think Instagram is a great app. I recently downloaded it and Instagramed a few photos of my own. A lot of my friends also have the app and I really enjoy seeing them posted on Facebook and Twitter. Instagram brings together people who have a common interest and encourages them to display their creativity. It is a fun way to make art and I believe that this app will only gain in popularity with the social savvy world.

Instagram is free, too, and can be downloaded on IPhone and Androids. So if you’re exhausted of your regular old photos and want to dapper them up with color and some cool filter effects, check out Instagram! And don’t forget to post the tons of test shots on your Facebook. I want to see them, really! :)

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The Way of Light

It may be a little late for this, but it is a process I suppose. I’m still editing pictures from the year 2010 now that I think about it. Just thinking about editing all of the hundreds of thousands of pictures I made from 2011 is intimidating. That is where I am, buried in pixels.

I take a long time to do this. Of course, my favorite part of doing photography is looking at pictures. When it comes to my own work, I tend to be very critical, and this can make the process drawn out even longer. One of my most important goals from this effort is to get a better understanding of how I worked that year, how I’ve grown visually and where I need to improve.

So as I continue this process over 2012 or so, I figured I might share some on the blog:

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

This photo was randomly clicked over an afternoon chat session with my office mates. Sometimes it’s best to capture that moment.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. - Albert Camus

A photo – featuring my cousin was clicked when he was walking through the sun & shade. Never thought I’ll get a good response for this click. But did :p ..People actually loved this snap.

“There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through” – Mumbai City

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. The photo clicked walking along the busy street of Mumbai

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

A magnificent lantern or ‘kandil’ as we call it, lights the way through the sky. Was happy to see 10 of em attached to a kite.

Hope to work hard & click some more ...

Stay Safe. & Happy Clicking.. :)

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Life Under the Skies

A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed... It feels an impulsion... this is the place to go now.  But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.

When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.  ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

The quietness, the empty streets on a rainy Monday evening, inspires you to click more & more. Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

When we look up, it widens our horizons.  We see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, but in the sky, there are no boundaries.  No differences of caste or religion or race.

Without a wish, without a will, I stood upon that silent hill, and stared into the sky until, my eyes were blind with stars and still, I stared into the sky. - Ralph Hodgson

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