Say Cheese!!!

Clicking pics has always been one of my favorite things to do..its an easy thing to do now with all new technology and its no big deal to click pics..we have them for every occasion..actually we would click them even if there is no occasion..i have a folder named 'boredom' in which i ve stored pics which i ve clicked when i was bored..few of them make an interesting watch while most of it is not even worth second look...

There was time when photos were clicked to capture all important occasions of life..it was such a big deal to get a photo clicked...I remember, how on the day class photo was to be clicked, was a big day for all of us!..we would get dressed perfectly..well oiled hair,tie and badges in proper place..and the excitement to see ourselves in the photo was totally out of the world..I was born in the generation when almost every family owned a camera of their own...the cost of each photo would come around 10-15..so,maximum care would be taken while clicking a photo, lest it gets wasted...

My dad has a camera which he would never allow any of us to touch(even now!),which was gifted to him by my grandfather who got it from japan...Dad is little too careful while clicking pics..he would not click unless everything is perfect-flash,focus and whatever the terms related to photography are...Having done some course in photography, dad has an exhaustive knowledge about photography and firmly believes that when a photo is taken it should have some meaning attached to it...Needless to say,he detests whenever i show him the pics i have taken with my cell (most of which, according to him are 'meaningless')..Am with the hope that someday i would definitely click some pic which would impress him :D

Going a generation back i.e, the time when the photos were clicked in black and white..The aura these black and white photos carry with them is truly mystic!..each photo has a tale to say and every photo is beautifully shot..I feel they are the best form of photos to be ever taken1..they make the person in it beautiful and radiant..it takes me a while to actually come to terms that the people in it are actually wearing colourful clothes and not black and white :)...Sepia is another effect,am totally in love with...but nothing beats black and white!!..

Interesting how a thing which was once given so much importance does not hold much importance in present day life..with all the new easy to use technology,the pomp that surrounded taking pics for sure is lost!

P.S. the person in the pic is my mother and this has always been and will be my favourite black and white pic for obvious reasons :)