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/looking through As I progressed further with my

/looking through

As I progressed further with my photo walk, it became obvious that it was really unimportant where I chose to photograph. The particular place simply provided an excuse to produce work. You can only see what you are ready to see — what mirrors your mind at that particular time. And my mind was seeking mystery - hide and seek, probably because of the whole labyrinth in the vicinity.

The compound was filled with forest-green plants and trees waving gently in front of me. A sudden gush of wind would whip them and reveal a distant dome - playing hide and seek with my vision. And at that moment that’s what I wanted to photograph. So, here’s a fast shutter frame of the scene that spoke to me at that moment and after this, I decided to move out of the compound and walk on the street.

/lucknow through my lens (9/15)
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/lucknow through my lens (8/15) Too occupied to c

/lucknow through my lens (8/15)

Too occupied to conjure a fitting caption. Instead, here are a few frames from the Imambara compound that follow the metaphorical them from the previous post.

Cheers!
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/it’s the little things The photographer’s ar

/it’s the little things

The photographer’s ardor for a subject has no essential relation to its content or value, that which makes a subject classifiable. It is, above all, an affirmation of the subject’s thereness; its rightness (the rightness of a look on a face, in this case - the rightness of the arrangement of a group of objects), which is the equivalent of the collector’s standard of genuineness; its quiddity — whatever qualities make it unique.

Some monuments are the center of attraction and there are beautiful structures, such as this one, which is often thought of as a novelty. They don’t attract impressive footfall but they have it all, in their might. It’s their tiny details that make them unique. And if I could draw a parallel from this to our lives, it’d go something like this - ‘If all that a person does or thinks is of consequence, it becomes arbitrary to treat some moments in life as important and most as trivial. But in the process, we miss the little things that make us, inspire us, fuel us - the little things that make us human.

So, let’s try to appreciate these things just a little bit more - to be like this structure on the side of the Imambara compound which tends to let the viewer see itself. I tried to make this photo convey this message. I wanted it not to preach. I wanted it not to pose as art. I wanted the viewer to appreciate it for what it is.

P.S.- The second frame is what you see when you air-drill your arms a few meters ahead and get the front arch out of the frame.

/lucknow through my lens (7/15)
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/unrelated caption Whenever I start posting a ser

/unrelated caption

Whenever I start posting a series, I ensure that I don’t miss the upload streak, no matter what. So there I was, sitting in front of my laptop, ready to conjure up a, well you know, my style of caption. And then it took over. My eyes which were already feeling very heavy, shut themselves and no matter how hard I tried to open them they just refused to open. Every second the words kept getting smaller and smaller, and I felt it's really me getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all the light and that excitement at about a million miles an hour.

Yes, that’s when the medicines took over. I have been suffering from fever and cold for the past couple of days and that’s why I missed posting yesterday. The medication lulled me to a 10-12 hour sleep and even after waking up, I didn’t feel like coming in front of any electronic screen. I am still avoiding screen time and typing this on my phone. Hopefully, I’ll recover soon. I couldn’t draw a parallel from today’s shot and philosophy given that I am under heavy medication. So, here are a couple of frames of the Chota Imambara complex.

Take care and stay safe :)

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/a visual code In teaching us a new visual code,

/a visual code

In teaching us a new visual code, photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing. If you visit any architectural compound, at a superficial level, they all have the same components - lush green lawns and rusty hard structures. If you look at them, you could see everything as pretty banal, or more so, a mess - or you could begin to compose things, find relationships between elements, objects, and shapes.

One can take dozens of pictures until they are satisfied that they got just the right frame - the light, texture, and geometry, among other things. In deciding how a picture should look, in preferring one exposure to another, photographers are always imposing standards on their subjects. Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are.

You make the photograph. And photographing still life architecture is as close as it gets to exhibiting this phenomenon. The building is there standing tall brimming with culture and history and you as a photographer have to see it - interpret it - and then compose a frame that showcases the subject in its grandiosity. Just like I did with this frame. This minaret is on the left side of the Chota Imambara complex. It is preceded by verdant green plants. You just have to half-squat and look up to see the white tower bathing in the golden glow of the soft winter sun. This was my photographic seeing. Hope I was able to make a photo that makes you feel something. :)

As always, 4x5 doesn't do justice, so posting the full version as well as the noir version on the story

/lucknow through my lens (4/15)

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/a secret window While every person and culture i

/a secret window

While every person and culture interpret symbols and archetypes differently, there is a common thread that binds them together. Architecture serves as a great example of that. Here is a photo of a small mosque that’s present inside the Chota Imambara compound. When I walked towards it and started composing my shot, I felt that it wasn’t symbolic - it was conveying the gist but it wasn’t the gestalt frame that I thought it’d be.

So I took a walk around it, tried different angles, perspectives and finally found one that came close to the objective representation of the metaphorical symbolism I had in mind. Although the frame isn’t extraordinary I feel it represents the act of praying perfectly, for when we pray, a window opens up in the metaphorical oblivion and we connect with the universe through it.

I’d like to paraphrase a few lines from ‘The Brothers Karamazov’ to explain this better:

Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be a new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education. Prayers are like a secret window into ourselves that tunnels through the universe. In those silent moments, we understand ourselves better.
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/lucknow through my lens (4/15)

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/chaos and order The universe tends towards chaos

/chaos and order

The universe tends towards chaos and entropy. Don’t believe it? Well, stand in front of a tall and crowning monument and try framing the structure while focussing on impeccable alignment. You’ll know exactly what I am talking about. During this photo walk, I learned how tricky it is to frame grandiose buildings. If you straighten the pillar, the arc feels crooked and if you horizontally align the latter, the former appears lopsided. It’s like it wants chaos.

But if you eyeball each and every corner of the frame, you can restore order momentarily, just enough for you to make a picture. As it happened with me while framing this entrance to the Chota Imambara Compound. The pathway is adorned by 3 impressive extradimensional open gates that have beautiful arcs and pillars. The magnificent thing about this entrance is that if you stand at the right spot, the apex of the main compound’s dome aligns perfectly with the centre of the arc of all 3 gates. But you have to stand at ‘the’ right spot. An inch here or there and you guessed it, chaos.

It took me some moving around, squatting in weird positions, and dancing around like a monkey to find that spot and once I had it, I shot in burst. Cause, hey, you can hold your squat for only so long. There was a flock of birds soaring in the sky and I captured one of them in the frame carrying its lunch between its beak.

So yes, the universe tends towards chaos and entropy. That is basic thermodynamics. Maybe it is basic existence too. But there is nothing that a determined heart cannot do. Here’s to chaos and here’s to finding order in it.
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/lucknow through my lens (3/15)

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/take a walk For the next frame of the series, I

/take a walk

For the next frame of the series, I want you to take a walk with me. We crossed the Rumi Gate and have now entered the Bada Imambara complex. We see an exodus of people rushing towards the primary attraction, but we’re not gonna join that pack. Instead, we’re going to turn left towards the empty compartment adorned by foliage. And now, we’ll observe - observe the arch, observe the pattern, observe the colours and observe ourselves at the moment.

Fragile, exquisite, undaunted by the threat of not being the centre of attraction, this section of the compound is a laughing refutation of “dull”, and so it becomes an implicit symbol of interesting for the world of photographic seeing. I don’t know whether that is what the architect of Asaf-ud-Duala had in mind when they designed this structure, but that, it seems to me, is what the compound itself says.

Now we’re going to try to capture the essence of this beautiful place through a frame. We take out our mobile phone, watch the play of light and shadows as we set the frame, we hold our breaths and press the shutter. That’s it. We have preserved that moment in a neat slice of time through our cameras. Sure, the timing could have been a little better and the person walking could have been in the centre but remember, we took the road which no one takes and the beauty of it is in photographic seeing and not mechanical reproduction.

I hope you liked the walk. :)

/lucknow through my lens (2/15)

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/the rumi darwaza There’s something about makin

/the rumi darwaza

There’s something about making architectural photographs. Unlike other genres of photography, the frame here is an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (no matter how in-ruins the object might be). To make such photographs is to find the structure of the world - to revel in the pure pleasure of form. In all the chaos, there is order.

This is how I felt when I started my solo Photowalk to see the architectural marvels of my city through my 4x3 rectangle. I walked and documented the lane that houses the beautiful Imambaras and the iconic clock tower. I tried to apply the principles that I abide by while photographing nature and have tried to make frames that discern order. Hopefully, I have done justice to these landmarks.

Starting the series off with a frame of the Rumi Darwaza or Rumi Gate that stands tall and welcomes the traveler with a beautiful grace. Although some parts of it were getting repaired when I visited, still it looks spectacular. This arresting gateway, commissioned by the Nawab in 1784 CE, was meant to outshine the Bab-i-Humayun (Sublime Porte) of the Ottoman Sultans in Istanbul, Turkey. It took the name ‘Rumi’, which means ‘relating to Rome’, as Istanbul was once the capital of Byzantium, the Eastern Roman Empire. This is perhaps why it is also referred to as the ‘Turkish Gate’.

I was trying to frame the shot with the soft-divider acting as a leading line when I noticed a gentleman in red walking from the other side of the road. I quickly adjusted the flip-out screen of my camera, dialled in the aperture and the shutter speed, and made this frame. The second frame is the top of the exit gate. It has eye-catching carvings and I thought a punched-in frame could only do justice to its beauty. And the third frame, well, coz I am a sucker for noir.

/lucknow through my lens (1/15)

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/goodbye 2021 It is easy to mourn the lives we ar

/goodbye 2021

It is easy to mourn the lives we aren’t living. Easy to wish we’d developed other talents, said
yes to different offers. Easy to wish we’d worked harder, loved better, handled our finances
more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Leh or Iceland, said yes to the coffee or done more bloody yoga.
It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn’t make and the work we didn’t do and the
people we didn’t marry and the children we didn’t have. It is not difficult to see yourself
through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic
versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum,
until our time runs out.
But it is not the lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It’s
the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people’s worst
enemy. We don’t have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. We just have to close our eyes and savour the taste of the drink in front of us and listen to the song as it plays. We are as completely and utterly alive as we are in any other life and have access to the same emotional spectrum. We only need to be one person. We only need to feel one existence.

So let’s be kind to the people in our own existence. Let’s occasionally look up from the
spot in which we are because, wherever we happen to be standing, the sky above goes on
for ever. 2021 has had its fair share of ups and downs. We went cried, we laughed, we loved, we failed, but we didn’t fold. A few weeks back my I went in a creative rut and then my laptop fried, I knew I won’t be able to make anything, I didn’t know what I’d do for expressing myself through this art-form is all I know and that it was impossible for me to accept my life as it is now. And yet now, that same messy life seems full of hope. Potential. The impossible, I suppose, happens via living.

Continued in comment...

26/26 “Until I feared I would lose it, I never

26/26

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing”
From To Kill a Mockingbird

Let me tell you a story - a story of a kid who used to walk home from school just so that he can save up INR 10. Now you might be wondering, that’s not that big of a deal. Well, for this kid, it was. Accumulating coins to reach the value of 10 meant that he’d get to keep the mysterious, glossy-wrapped paperback with the title “Harry Potter” for a few hours. A few hours of pure magic realism - a few hours of sheer comfort - a few hours in a school that was and probably is, a dream school of many - a few hours where his biggest worry was to not cast the wrong spell in a wrong situation - a few hours when we was one of them.

Time moves slowly, but passes quickly. And just like that it flew away. The kid grew up, got busy and lost touch with the endless source of knowledge, information, entertainment, and training - books. I think you would have guessed it already, that kid was me (bummer). One day, I was cleaning my cupboard when I found an old notebook - it was a scribble-pad where I used to write quotes from the books I read. This stimulus was enough to send me to the rabbit-hole of memories I had associated with reading. It was at that instance when I decided that I’ll try to make it more occasional to read a book.

This went on for a few months and I read a couple of books. Then came 2021 and I ordered “On Photography” by Susan Sontag. And that book blew me away. I had to talk about it so I took to Goodreads and Reddit where I found amazing communities. I started engaging in conversations and before I knew it, I had a pretty extensive reading list. Around the same time came the reading challenge by Reddit and I thought it’ll be nice to have a guiding light in case I drift away. So, I set a target of 12 books. I started reading, posting, discussing and bam! here I am - the end of 2021 and I completed 26 books! A feat which I honestly thought I’ll never achieve. I thought I’ll preserve this milestone in my harbour of virtual memoir - Instagram.

But that’s not it. You know I don’t post stuff just like that.
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/the silent night Night’s dark mantle closed in

/the silent night

Night’s dark mantle closed in around him and the thermometer plunged. The moon loitered in the night sky like a shiny salver of silver. The windswept clouds were sprinkled in the sky. He stared into the shining moon wrapped in his thoughts. It was glowing like a beacon for the lost souls of the world. A feathered medley echoed through the trees and made his hair dance.

The silhouettes of the urban landscape hung in front of him. He thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.

And in that shadow, he found peace.

/the dreamer He was still at the same spot breath

/the dreamer

He was still at the same spot breathing in the peacefulness of nothingness. The aircraft was long gone. An utter void stared at him and from among it, voices calling, and yet not voices, humming trillings, wordlings, the half-articulated songs of thought. They weren’t just whispers in the dark- they were notes of despair from the abandoned dreams. Dreams of thinkers, dreams of creators, dreams of artists - dreams given up on realizing how the real world works. He recognized a couplet. It was familiar in an unfamiliar guise.

It reminded him of things he wanted to do. He had forgotten about them for he believed maybe forgetfulness, like a kind of snow, would numb and cover them. But they were part of him. They were his landscape. Although it was the winter season, a different wave of chill struck his body. He noticed that the moon had made a brief appearance from behind the clouds. He lifted his hand so as to touch that figment of his dream and made this frame from the other.

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/the wanderer "Everybody has to leave, everybody

/the wanderer

"Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home or the people they call their home or doing something that makes them feel whole, and come back, so they can love it again for all new reasons. On the way back, some run while some crawl, and then there are some who want to travel faster than the escape velocity needed to evade the irresistible gravity of things holding them down. I am the latter and my home is photography. No matter how much I try to move towards it, it still seems distant. Do you know why? Because I am sitting under a bell jar waiting for it to lift up. And I know it won't miraculously disappear and I am making efforts to toss it sideways but I think it's gonna take some time. My last resort is to wait but you know what they say - 'time without purpose is a prison.' So, I am observing. Observing nature, observing my surroundings... observing myself..." Suddenly he heard a violent roar in the night sky. He kept his pen down and stared in darkness.

And there it was- a bleak silver line in the dark grey sky preceded by flickering lights. The timing couldn't have been any better, he thought. It's like the universe was shining a beacon. He attached the lens to his camera and framed this metaphorical moment, handheld. The sound of the shutter unlocked a sense of relief. He turned his hands up and lay on the floor. He felt free. The peacefulness was so big that it dazed him and it asked for nothing.

-AB

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#midnight #airplane #noir #noirphotography #nightphotography #writerscommunity #shotfromhome #stayathome #photooftheday #naturephotography #midnightmusings #blackandwhitephotography

/to love someone long-term is to attend a thousand

/to love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be

Over the past few weeks my brain hasn't been the creative-factory churning out ideas as it usually is. So I followed the advice of a wise human, "When you are overthinking, write. When you are underthinking, read". I was on the front page of the internet (Reddit) looking for writing prompts when I came across this quote on a completely unrelated subreddit by Heidi Priebe and boy did it fire my neurons:

"To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be. The people they're too exhausted to be any longer. The people they don't recognize inside themselves anymore. The people they grew out of, the people they never ended up growing into. We so badly want the people we love to get their spark back when it burns out; to become speedily found when they are lost.
But it is not our job to hold anyone accountable to the people they used to be. It is our job to travel with them between each version and to honor what emerges along the way. Sometimes it will be an even more luminescent flame. Sometimes it will be a flicker that disappears and temporarily floods the room with a perfect and necessary darkness."

I read it once and then again and then again and with every read it kept getting better. Inspired by this I wrote something but that's a prose for another day. Not only did this piece make me write but also inspired me to shoot something. This frame is my interpretation of it. It has blacks, it has whites, and it has different shades of grey. Based on your interpretation, the reflection in the mirror can be vibrant green or can be rusty yellow. The entire frame can have different versions depending on how you see it - just like how we see our lives.

What's your interpretation?

/in the right light, at the right time, everything

/in the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Here is a carousel of few shots I have taken over the years on the eve of the festival of light - Diwali. Below is a general description about the festival for those who are unaware. Happy Diwali!

Diwali is one of India’s most beloved festivals. While it is popularly known as the “festival of lights”, the most significant spiritual meaning is “the awareness of the inner light”. The celebration of Diwali as the “victory of good over evil”, refers to the light of higher knowledge dispelling all ignorance, the ignorance that masks one’s true nature, not as the body, but as the unchanging, infinite, immanent and transcendent reality. With this awakening comes compassion and the awareness of the oneness of all things (higher knowledge). This brings anand (joy or peace). Just as we celebrate the birth of our physical being, Diwali is the celebration of this Inner Light.

The “row of lights” for which the festival is named are lit on the new-moon night to welcome Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth. But in Bengal, it is the goddess Kali who is so honored, and in North India the festival also celebrates the return of Gods and Goddesses Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, and Hanuman to the city of Ayodhya, where Rama’s rule of righteousness was inaugurated. Diwali is celebrated with a variety of rituals, which depend in large part on one’s location, but they center on the lighting of candles, electric lights and fireworks. Throughout the five-day festival, small earthenware lamps filled with oil are lighted and placed in rows along the tops of temples and houses and set adrift on rivers and streams.

#diwali #indianfestival #festivaloflights

Does this ever happen to you that you meet your fr

Does this ever happen to you that you meet your friends after ages but it feels like a sojourn tucked in the rear corner of your brain? It's like you never really met- the time together is just not enough. It's like you just said hi and in the blink of an eye, it was all over. Have you ever felt like that or is it just me?

For weeks past I had been preparing myself for the range of emotions I'd feel, fully cognizant of the fact that it's a super-short-wedding-visit, but what I am just catching onto is just how fleeting this all was. So, I thought why not preserve it in moving pixels, hence, the video.

It is nothing much as we were all in our element and I was doing what I do all the time: recording. The view is through a very personal and intimate lens and I'm not sure if everyone would be able to relate to it in totality but hopefully, you get the underlying essence. And if you do, tell your friends you miss them. We don't do that enough.

Miss you all already @bansalaman1 @shoaibjaveed @gautamkssk91 @meghadamani @atishay122 @pavan_gujamagadi

/the tale of travel It's been 7 months since I to

/the tale of travel

It's been 7 months since I took my last flight and almost 20 months since I took flights in quick succession. I kinda miss the hermetic, twilight world of the cabins of airplanes, eating, drinking, sleeping, attending meetings/talks, and, repeat. Our lifestyles change so much when we go independent, yet, staying at home, feels so familiar, but in an unfamiliar guise.

Naturally, when I saw this tiny bright airplane on the Babylon-blue skies of Earth, on which we live, which is a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot lost in the unimaginable infinity of the Universe, I felt like capturing it. The climate worked in my favor and being able to capture the smoke trail was the icing on top.

Here's to hoping to travel again, soon!
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#createathome #stayathome
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#tripotocommunity #_ip #raghavrairalhan #gun_eat #baapwalecreators #photooftheday #airplane #smoketrail #idyllic #blueskies

/puddle of cloud Edit: @instagram has killed the

/puddle of cloud

Edit: @instagram has killed the quality and distorted the video towards the end. Will try posting it on the story.

During my recent social media break I pondered upon the subject: how to elevate your timelapse game without leaving your house. I was taking my post-lunch walk when it struck me: what if I could record a timelapse in the reflection of water. And so I did. While setting up my tripod I forgot to fasten the knob on of the legs (that's why I prefer the ones with the clip) and my camera crashed to the ground. Thankfully it fell on its side and the body just got scratched. But the lens took a major hit (it still works, yay!)

After this setback, I set it up again and began capturing the timelapse. I also wanted to highlight the process of evaporation, hence the subtle zoom out and the framing. Hope this was something different for your eyes. Do let me know in the comments if you liked the concept :) I want to try this on a calm river.

Oh, and this timelapse contains 999 shots!
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Shot on @nikonindiaofficial D5200 with the 18-55mm kit lens
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/every cloud has a s̶i̶l̶v̶e̶r̶ blue lining

/every cloud has a s̶i̶l̶v̶e̶r̶ blue lining

The start of October has been rainier than expected and I can't complain. It was a relaxing Saturday when soon it began as a whispering in the air. The day had been beautiful and the sky was like a dome of plasma blue. The clouds had looked like airy anvils drifting under the gleaming disc of the sun. Soon they started to cough out great gouts of water and thunking balloons of sopping moisture. It was over sooner than it started.

And then came the gift rain bestows upon us. A homely, baked-earth smell rose from the land as it was washed and cleansed by the dewy tears of summer rain. The sky became a fragile, pellucid blue. The clouds- frail and angel-white. They were carried on a light, ruffling breeze. Soon the fluff of white tore apart and I spotted an airplane with a blue backdrop. It reminded me of the adage 'every cloud has a silver lining' and I smirked thinking how nature has a done a wordplay showing us that 'sometimes clouds have a blue lining'.
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Shot on @nikonindiaofficial D5200 with the 18-55mm kit lens
Composed at f/11, 55mm, 1/250, ISO 100
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#nightphotography #photooftheday #everycloudhasasilverlining #writerscommunity

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