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Great Images Are As Simple And Beautiful As The Words Written Together…..

Henri Cartier Bresson

Holidays are here, and summer camps everywhere, children around are busy engaged in some sports or arts program.
In the recent days I had sight of a children’s skating camp near by my residence in Vijayawada. As I felt that the atmosphere at the camp was very interesting, I decided to have couple of photo sessions at the camp.

I always like to draw various compositions out of the crowds, I enjoyed shooting some images at this place, many children on a single stage, criss crossing each other in various movements, moods and gestures.

More importantly, I took this photo session as to reassert my changing visual perception and interpretations. And the outcome of this is, the images of simple, harmonious and aesthetic design.

At home for several days, back from my travel, I have been working on those images I have shot during the travel. Intuitively, most of the images I recently shot, have been taken a new shape, rather I can say a new way of compositions.
At some point of time during the trip, I observed in myself, the degree of freedom I was undergoing  while seeing and shooting, altogether, in the process of image making. Going through those images now, and selecting, segregating, editing,  etc..etc…. all these weekdays went on just thinking about what’s good and what’s not. The self judgement about ones own images against what we feel & think beautiful and appropriate.

In this process, at certain moment, it struck to my mind that, while I was choosing the images, my visual senses are working in certain way and filtering the images accordingly and finally picking out some as the best.  After been realized what exactly I was choosing, and the kind of compositions I was looking for, I become much more clear about what I feel I wanted.

Then I decided, OK, let’s shoot some new images and composed in the same way what I felt is good while segregating. Immediately, I took my camera out and started shooting things around, it was an experience of, unconscious becoming conscious.

Of course, I have shot these kind of compositions earlier too, but the difference now is, I am much more aware of how the compositions are going to be made, and every little thing is beautiful in the image. I felt nothing is inappropriate for photography, provided it is presented aesthetically.

According to one of the visual theories, beauty lies in the arrangement, simply putting it, beauty lies in the composition. It applies to every art, be it visual arts or music in that matter. In the way, the arrangement of musical notes gives beauty to the piece of music, in the same way, the harmonious arrangement of the visual objects in an image adds beauty to it…..

Anyways, in between, after all these mumbo jumbo running around in my mind, I eventually have published five new collections on to my web gallery. Hope you will enjoy too….