From 'Nature'

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my book - Walking with the Birds in Delhi

Walking with the Birds in Delhi is my experience with the birds I found in Delhi through out the year. The information I had collected are not a research work, only a study as an amateur bird watcher and photographer. I had tried my best to locate the birds within Delhi territory., though I know birds never confined them like human. They are free to fly on choice but we the people slowly engulfing their zone. In my book I tried to show the birds I had seen. And yes missed to take pictures of few. I have a hope to cover them in future.

HOW YOU CAN TAKE A GOOD PICTURE ? (2)

Some people never accept photography as a creative media. To them, what an art can express, photography cannot do so. Photography is a simple mechanism to store or record document. A painting or sketch takes birth from the ovary of imagination reflects the philosophy of an artist. It could be reality or fantasy or a combination of both. A painting could be an illustration beyond the fact where colours may change to black and white; a figure could be depicted through a distorted pattern. Creativity can follow the grammar but has the power to cross the hurdles of reality. And there photography has its limitation. A photographer cannot proceed further than the fact. Fact is his territory, not the fiction.
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How you can take a good picture

How you can take a good picture? … Is it an easy question to answer? Some will say yes. If you follow the grammar, can utilize the technology of photography you can obtain a good picture. But does it all! If you possess a good camera and apparatus you may get partial success. But to create a photograph, that aesthetically more or less correct the equipments are not all. A photograph could be a dumb object without beauty, if the spark of creativity is not in the frame. The way a painter, a sculpturer, a singer, or any other performer try to create a new avenue to explore the thoughts, on the same way a photographer can discover a theme through his works and research.
Remember, once Camera Obscura was an appliance used by the painter to do quick rough copy of a model or subject. Later, many discoveries helped to develop the modern photography, including its technology. Now the digital era took photography to common men and photography at present a tool to create an art piece or a simple documentation to store some memory in album. Now only the skilled photographers have scope to prove the ultimate utilization of this technology. Camera is there---- Computer is there – digital know-how is there; only the photographer has to know how to exploit it and to create.
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Not a Monkey business

Kids are always kids. Whether they are Homo sapiens or not. In Delhi, occasionally I pay a visit to northern ridge for bird watching. The ridge is full of monkeys and the behavior of these apes is really eye catching. During summer the monkeys enjoy swimming and bathing similarly like us. The small pond in ridge is a nice place to watch them playing … and their offspring. Watch how playful they are.

The Kiss

The name always recalled the famous sculpture created by Auguste Rodin. Like many of Rodin's best-known individual sculptures, the embracing couple depicted in the sculpture appeared originally as part of a group of reliefs decorating Rodin's monumental bronze portal The Gates of Hell, commissioned for a planned museum of art in Paris. The couple were later removed from the Gates and replaced with another pair of lovers located on the smaller right-hand column. The sculpture, The Kiss, was originally titled Francesca da Rimini, as it depicts the 13th-century Italian noblewoman immortalised in Dante's Inferno (Circle 2, Canto 5) who falls in love with her husband Giovanni Malatesta's younger brother Paolo. Having fallen in love while reading the story of Lancelot and Guinevere, the couple are discovered and killed by Francesca's husband. In the sculpture, the book can be seen in Paolo's hand. The lovers lips do not actually touch in the sculpture to suggest that they were interrupted and met their demise without their lips ever having touched.Rodin indicated that his approach to sculpting women was of homage to them and their bodies, not just submitting to men but as full partners in ardor. The consequent eroticism in the sculpture made it controversial. A bronze version of The Kiss (74 cm high) was sent for display at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The sculpture was considered unsuitable for general display and relegated to an inner chamber with admission only by personal application.In the year 1977 I got a chance to see the sculpture and It stimulated me like any thing. To me the sculpture is not only a relation of two individual bodies; it is a conjugation of earth and nature. During my recent visit to Bharatpur bird sanctuary the pattern of these two trees attracted me – as if they are going to embrace each other…. And ready for ‘The Kiss’.