Posing

Which is good? Posing for a photograph or taking photograph? Very difficult question to answer for a photographer! If one is not a photographer, then he can always pose for the photo. If it is a photographer, he/she always likes to have his/her work to be published.

I am a photographer. But I don’t have a professional camera. I remember taking black & white photos using my father’s box camera. He had taken very good photos of our tour of South India, Nagpur and Delhi during 1964 and 1967 respectively.

Later I used Diana and Debonair – both are greyish ‘aim and shoot’ camera. I made my parents, sisters, cousins and friends to pose for me. It was somewhere in 1975.

My brother in law gave me a Yashica camera which I used during my visits to Jammu and Kashmir in 1987 and Kodaikanal in 1988 and many one day local trips.

My friend took it to his home and returned. It never worked againL

When I was in Muscat in 2002, I bought a Canon camera. It was used during 2003 to capture my nostalgia of a year. I brought it home. But by then, the digital camera had taken the ruling.

Printing a black and white photo was also equally costly those days. Bromide paper printing was expensive.

The other problem was, we were not knowing whether the photo has been taken properly or whether we need a reshoot. Imagine coming all the way from Kashmir and finding out that the photos are out of focus!

Benq worked for some time. But my kids were very young and enthusiastic. The camera found its ‘end’ very fast!

One day my daughter said, ‘I want a camera tomorrow as I have an ethnic day celebration in the college’.

Now I had no choice. I purchased a Canon camera with zoom and the works. Not very costly but not cheap as well!

The camera did great. It traveled with us to South India and many local trips. As usual the camera was (ab) (mis) used by my children. The camera never opened when the button was pressed! Of course, both of them (the kids) never agree that they are responsible for the damage.

A long pending trip to Shimla came up. I had promised my wife Usha 25 years ago that I will take her to see snow. I had to purchase a camera.

Rajesh, my colleague, is a special expert on cameras among many other gadgets! He suggested a Panasonic camera which could fit into my packet and pocket!

The camera traveled with us to Shimla and Chandigarh. It is traveling with me to office every day. Not that I would take photos always. But still...

My Samsung Galaxy S mobile itself is good enough to take sharp photos. I try to capture many odd things while waiting for my office cab.

Why the case of photos was taken up today? Yeah, there is a reason. Though I was not very keen on posing for photos since childhood, I have found a big number of my photos. I have kept uploading these on my face book page. People are saying they are good. For me the photos bring old memories.

Aim and shoot! Click!!