Roll Down to the ‘Blues’

I certainly am writing a post after a long long time, so do spare me if you find my language a bit unpolished ;) you know what I mean! Anyways – The main point was that recently, I managed to enter the ‘Mahindra Blues’ festival that was held in Mumbai. & boy it was fab!!. Blues Music has always fascinated me in & out in recent years. The plus point was the photographs that I managed to click while listening to the whimsical music at the fest.

So thought I might dig deep into the form & get some info. On how the ‘Blues’ came to life. Also sharing some of the photographs from the event:

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. - Plato

Blues is a Native American musical and verse form, with no direct European and African antecedents of which we know. In other words, it is a blending of both traditions. Something special and entirely different from either of its parent traditions. In the early nineteen-sixties, the urban bluesmen were "discovered" by young white American and European musicians. Many of these blues-based bands like the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, Canned Heat, and Fleetwood Mac, brought the blues to young white audiences, something the black blues artists had been unable to do in America except through the purloined white cross-over covers of black rhythm and blues songs.

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

Since the sixties, rock has undergone several blues revivals. Some rock guitarists, such as Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, and Eddie Van Halen have used the blues as a foundation for offshoot styles. While the originators like John Lee Hooker, Albert Collins and B.B. King - and their heirs Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, and later Eric Clapton and the late Roy Buchanan, among many others, continued to make fantastic music in the blues tradition. The latest generations of blues players like Robert Cray and the late Stevie Ray Vaughan, among others, as well as gracing the blues tradition with their incredible technicality, have drawn a new generation of listeners to the blues.

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music”

The photographs feature 2 amazing Indian Bands. – Blackstratblues & Soulmate.

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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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