i am in love....

I don't know whether the beauty of photography lies in the art and the science of the shots taken or is the luck of the guy who just happens to be at the right place at the right time. What i know is that i have fallen in love. And that too with my digicam. My romance with it started during our rural Internship last December in Rishikesh and I fell for it fully in dehradun, a photographer's dream.

Before dehradun the words like ISO, exposure and shutter time meant nothing to me. But a little introduction to my camera by my sister got me to know it much better, and in time fall in love with it and the magical pictures I could click with it. The FRI (forest research institute) campus in dehradun is so beautiful and picturesque it is that it is really a photographer's haven. Since then, life has changed for me. I've begun to see the places, wherever i go in a different light, always trying to find the best angles, thinking how I can capture the objects in the best lighting schemes, deciding upon exposure times. I had the same feeling as i had had the first time I wore my spects. The same joy I feel again and again, whenever i have my fingers on the flash button. The feeling of doing something creative along with it being such an enjoyable experience creates a real bliss.

This led me to see our college campus in wholly new light too. The campus of our institute is indeed one of the most picturesque in the country, but at 6 am in the morning, it can be a much more enchanting place. You can just take the camera and wander aimlessly here and there, and end up capturing many beautiful shots, even the peacocks can be caught roaming about much freely and you can just click away merrily.

We’re planning something fun soon, for Synapse, our college fest. Will post stuff about it soon. Keep reading… :)

Photography bug...

Hi, i know im posting this after a long time.. and a lot is overdue that i have to write about my December vacations. But i'll leave that to the next post. This one is about my latest obsession. My Digicam!!! I have fallen in love with it.

I got my photography bug from my sister. I had been getting inspired by Di’s pics all the time but, when I met her last winter and learnt the finer points of the trade, I got hooked. We got some really ultimate pics of the FRI(forest research institute) campus in dehradun. So beautiful and picturesque it is that it is really a photographer’s dream place. Since then, I’ve just been in love with my camera, taking it with me wherever I go. In hope that I may get a nice shot somewhere. Always hoping..

After trying a few shots at it at home, I succeeded in bringing in to college this time. As known, DA-IICT is one of the most picturesque colleges in the country. You can just take the cam and wander aimlessly here and there, and you can capture many beautiful shots of nature. So, I decided to try it out this morning. Woke up at 6, and headed out the hostel.

Along with the usual close ups of some really beautiful flowers I got to capture loads of beautiful morning snaps. I roamed just about everywhere in the campus, seeing some new areas along the way. It was truly a remarkable experience. I saw the scenes around me in a new light. Capturing such scenic beauties was utter pleasure. I tried real hard to get a pic of 3-4 peacocks sitting together, but as expected, they flew off at even the slightest noise of my feet. Though i did manage to get one in flight.

I’ll definitely open a Flikr account soon.. As soon as the net of our college boosts up again. Maybe u can tell then whether i've made some progress over the time or not.. ;)

chequered thoughts on 'Belief'

Well, this is my first post to my blog, Chequered thoughts. So, I thought, like all ‘religious Indians’ I would also start with God, the higher being, but with my chequered thoughts added to it.

BELIEF. It’s one thing absolutely essential for a human mind. We as humans need to believe in a school of thought, or create our own, but we constantly need to believe in something, on someone. We are all believers. Most of us believe in some form of God or the other. While some believe in atheism. But even they believe in something.

What I am trying to put down here is my image of ‘God’. How I see him and how I where and why I think he/she (not sure if I can categorize god in this category) exists.

There are two aspects of belief in a higher being. The spiritual one, which all non-atheists usually follow, the concentration of mind on the spirit, on the God, in hope to gain the eternal. And a physical one, in which we try to seek a physical significance to that high being.

Humans have had a tendency of worshipping anything that they cannot explain. Any being or object which we fear, or which has that aura of mystery around it, we pray about it to God, or sometimes we pray to it. Like the fire, lightening, rain. We feared some of these. Revered in others. We prayed to all these elements of nature. The trend continues even today.

As of the current researches (and which really seems to be the truth now), the universe started with a big bang. A small concentrated mass just blew up with a really big bang and started an expansion, which is even continuing till date. That bang symbolizes the advent of time and the start of our universe itself. The mystery around it is only because of 2 main things. One, under what circumstances did that dense particle exploded, and two, where did the particle come from in the first place, i.e., was there time before the big bang too. Here lies the unknown. And therefore an unworldly thing. A mystery that cannot be explained in the near future in any circumstances. Here we can say for now that something godly or a power out of this world initiated the bang. And that is God. Today, most of us will regard sayings like God created this world in seven days with a smile thinking that all this is just old religious belief that should really be given up in this scientific era. But what about the case stated above. We cant explain this. So it leads to only one conclusion that God really exists. This is modern scientific religion and we believe in it.

So, for us God can be said to be a form of energy (though this makes him worldly), which flows in this universe. It initiated the big bang and maybe it still is continuing to control the universe in some ways, even now. (Dark energy, dark matter maybe, who knows). God, a form of pure energy. Let us say that we see that energy through different goggles or through different outlines on a paper. So we interpret it in different forms, in different religions and different belief systems. All belief systems are basically looking at the same thing, but through different visions.