Ghumakkar's Diary

Wow! This PADE is getting so challenging - pushing me to try something new everyday ( literally every evening ). For today's theme, I browsed through my old collections, Diwali pics and there was none - many on Diyas  and those electrical lights - but none on candles! So, I started thinking - what to snap ? And, then how to do it? Darkness with candle is the most sought after concept - but then what was new? I thought to do it with Candles inside a glass with some coloured liquid ( ThumsUp ) in it, with a woofer shaking it. Woofer couldn't be arranged, some 20 pics with dwindling and finally collapsing candles in colddrink couldn't end up with something I was looking for. So, something happened and I started blowing off the candles by diverging the blow via my left palm and trying to snap the pics using right hand. Results were series of pics with flickering as well as brightened flames. Discarded brightened ones, a collage of flickers is what I am posting today... ...

Theme for the Day 2 is Books. I have not shot much on this theme, honestly just a very few. So, it was a task for me to take a new photograph for the purpose. Easiest way out was to shoot my collection of Books with an objective, but then it was too simple to do. I took that pic, however, and learnt correcting Lens Distortion (thanks Kenrock ). But, it wasn't satisfying me - it was easy to take, though editing (Photoshop and Picasa) added flavour to it, still. I wanted to do it with an objective, and then came in my mind 1st lesson of our TruePixer's workshop, Photography is not just an Art, but Fine Art . So, here is the pic... Photography is not just an Art, but Fine Art I shot this pic of Old Oxford Dictionary aptly matched with a Brush that I recently bought to clean the mirror of camera , with my LG Optimus mobile-camera, and done a little auto-correction thing.