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30 november 2008

@St.Antony's Seashore shrine,
on the East Coast Road, Palavakkam, Chennai

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if books are meant to be friends...
i jus clicked one of my oldest friend..!

(7/7) 23 to 29 november 2008

Richard Bach's 'Biplane'
amongst a pile of new books..yet to be read....

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i don't think i have a point in clicking biscuits..,
anyway, you can have a look at it...!

(6/7) 23 to 29 november 2008

call this product photography or food photography or whatever....
the fact is, i finished eating them before i could try better clicks on them..!

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A compact fluorescent lamp (CFL),
also known as 'energy saving light bulb'

(5/7) 23 to 29 november 2008

~ random click ~
got a maximum shutter speed [1/2000 seconds] on this one..!

[more CFL description on wiki- click here]

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"Stop trying to fit in, when you were born to stand out..!"

(4/7) 23 to 29 november 2008

attempt at "conceptual photography"...
where you think of an idea/concept first and then click it..

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only the eyes of children see,
the fairies that wait with their magic wands..!

(3/7) 23 to 29 november 2008

they are the same little angels i had clicked earlier..!

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Said the candle:
"i may not last the night dear friend...
but then, i give out light..
lovely light...,
as long as i live..!"

(2/7) 23 to 29 november 2008

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isn't life like a box of match sticks.?!
we get to light one match at a time..
and choose..either to burn out or brighten up..!
(1/7) 23 to 29 november 2008

started clicking for last week's stock of photos...
first thing i came across was this new match box..n the next a candle...

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no dark and lovely woods...
its only the flooded streets..n maddening crowds..!
and promises to keep..and miles to go...
miles to go...before i sleep..!!!

(2/2) 21,22 november 2008

waiting...on the wayside...
@a busy bus stop,some place in Chennai

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its bliss indeed,
a stroll in the park...
the rain and sunshine..!
to see a hundres flowers...
and to click jus one..!!!

(1/2) 21,22 november 2008

wild flowers on the fence...
facing the sun after a shower..
@the Guindy Children's Park,Chennai

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(2/2) 19,20 november 2008

wished i framed a better click!
wished ter were clouds...n a better camera..!
at about 100 feet above sea-level..
standing atop with vertigo...
this all i could do..!
[see the blue sea on the horizon?! the Bay of Bengal]

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(1/2) 19,20 november 2008

[roadside photography]
chennai's fake rain clouds...during the so-called 'monsoons'!
By the time i walked to the bus-stop..it was summer again..!

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ever heard of the "one red paper clip story"
i guess every blogaholic should have known it by now..!!!
now that story inspired this click..!
(i had a white clip too..didn't want to leave it alone...so both of 'em 'framed' )

(5/5) 14 to 18 november 2008

read the story.....click here
check out the blog......"one red paper clip"

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hunney..i fried some ice!!!!
its real HOT now!!!

(4/5) 14 to 18 november

now don't even think i used a frying pan to melt ice..!
try guessing wht n' how..?!

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its neither black nor white...
shades of grey are the colors i see.!!!

(3/5) 14 to 18 november 2008

" shades of grey...where ever i go,
the more i find, the less that i know...
Black and White is how it should be...
but shades of grey are the COLORS i see.!"
~Billy Joel~

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(2/5) 14 to18 november 2008

with ideas running out...
its 'shoot at sight' anytime anywhere..!
latest victim:my' China made-Chennai bought-Swiss Army knife..!'

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(1/5) 14 t0 18 november 2008

testing clicks under new 'studio light'..
all in a hurry to wind up the pending clicks..!
can't think of wordings to go with this..

credits: roommate's 'CAT 2008 pencil'
its worth framing it i guess!

of clicker's block, introspection and more...

having strted out with a target of 101 clicks, one each day..n NOt having clicked anything for 5 daysssss!!!
n tht too at a time when a few wonderful bloggers drop in with inspiring comments..!

somethings wrong somewhere.....n a little introspection reveals it....

clicker's block: inability to click a photograph because something in your mind prevents you from doing it..!
something: an object ,situation or action which is not exactly known or stated..!

uhm.! tht explains it...now i need to move on....

hmm again thinking more abt it...like most blogs,am not sure if i strted this targeting an audience/invisisble audience in mind...
this gets me thinking abt writer's block too...tht blog i strted last november,saw only 3 or 4 posts in 2008...!
this journey,to satisfy the shutter bug in me, started on October 7,2008..,more for doing something purposeful, making each day count abt a passion tht needed revival...sort of a journey on self-discovery, and tht too had revised the target from 365 days to 101 days..!!..short term..!
5 days pit-stop in a 101 day journey is too much to ask for..!

having started out with te motto in mind, "click away..live it up..! each day..each moment", this lapse calls for some action plans/revisons/additons in the route map to 101 days!

1.excuse myself for not clicking every day, but should post a picture each day,including a set of pics for the past 5 days!
2.no posting pictures from archives, but can post for each day froma set of pics clicked after the day, not before!
3.include EXIF data for all pics...and details of editing done...
4.try not to pressurise myself for the clicks..let it just happen as n when it happens..!
5.come out with more natural clicks,reduce the post processing/editing to enhance pics..
6.self-learn,trial n error,try n try n make better clicks each time.

All said and done, one last thingy..
I have to agree that its the post processing done on the clicks tht gives it the extraordinary look it has!
Am not sure of a real/serious/pro photog's take on my attempts, coz i have seen a lot of amazing amateur photogs witha touch of genius..whose clicks inspire...!who don't require much of a digital darkroom to come out with amazing captures..!
I have this in ma mind(fora little of self-motivation):they indeed have a spark of genius n a vision of how best something can be framed as n when they click..! i click and then get a spark as how to display the object/thing better..!
This is where am rite now, hope each day brings in more self-realisation and lessons to learn.

Guess am gettin off with te writer's block now....gotta revive that passion too...

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13 november 2008
crystal engraved from within.....
random clicking.!

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12 november 2008
full moon view...
out of my window..