ELECTRIC MOTOR REPAIR PARTS

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In all humility without trying to over reach my singular aspiration of making Marziya a good photographer I have shown her life as I would see it through a camera lens.

And because Marziya is an observant child with great creativity of mind it is a pleasure and an added learning experience playing the role of her Guru.

Even child needs a Guru , Marziya is stuck at two and a half years old and in November will hit 3.

We walk the roads she watches everything, she is not afraid and I took her to the butchers shop to see her reaction it was beyond her she has been to the fish market and already seen fish being cut and cleaned.

I have of course kept her away from the actual butchering that takes place of the live goat during Bakra Idd.

Because I make her shoot what I would be shooting , she realizes situations that we call street photography.,

Street photography according to me is creativity at its highest level shooting the soul of mans surroundings documenting his moves and his street emotions.

His laughter his yawn his sleep his tears all form part of this huge tableau of humanity.

Here Marziya is observing the local cobbler at his work, repairing soles is creativity too , however mundane the task my sound, a stitch in time saves nine.


And I dont overdo it , first I was excited not anymore we both are pros and we go about it as clinically as possible.

And how can you shoot what your inner soul never saw the difference between a picture and hurriedly clicked snap shot....though some of my pictures are hurriedly clicked snap shoots ..because you read them differently they become poems shot as visuals.

Basic knowledge of photography is important but than the human soul and practice takes care of the ensuing nitty gritty of street photography.

And here I shall shock all of you I would like my grand daughter not to shoot like me but like Roland Luthi, Randy Der Joel Tom Andrews Akbar Simonese Jeff Lamb some of the photographers who have influenced me in one way or the other.

I dare not ask her to shoot like Glenn Losack MD it is an impossible uphill task and she is far too young to reach such a stature due to her diminutive size.

And not just photography from photographers I would want her to learn Humanity from Benn Bell Anthony Posey Fred Miller Linda Schaefer Sukhi Hontu and many others friends bloggers photographers on Facebook and Flickr.

But I also know because she loves Art and creativity she might end up like Drunken Gekko, Jean Marc Gargantiel.

I would not want her to shoot Hijras Rafaees or the hardcore pictures I shoot , I would want her to shoot the Muslim beggar woman in a hijab, two children and her eyes searching for hope beyond the horizon of humanity.

Yes I would want Marziya to shoot a drop of tear as it rolls down a cheek into the gutters of despair.

What Marziya would want to shoot you will have to wait and watch, but if you see a girl in hijab covered from head to toe you know that she is carrying the inheritance of her grandfather the barefeet blogger of Mumbai..Photographer No1.

I am too embarrassed to write my own name here ...

As ever, finding the time to get out at the weekends with my 'precious' has again become an issue after the luxury of two weeks off at Christmas. My spare time is being taken up with converting my spare bedroom into a work/study/chill out room and repairing a leaking roof and gutter caused by the subzero temps, so I'm not going to be able to do any photography for the next week or so. :-( Still, I did manage the last hour before sunset on Saturday and Sunday, with Sunday being the most productive of the two days (hmm, if you count 3 or 4 shots productive!). :-)

With time being at a premium I decided to pop over to my favourite quiet place, Big Mere at the village of Marbury. Apart from two fishermen I had the place to myself – not counting the occasionally vocal Canada geese grazing the grass nearby, that is. As long as I stayed still they didn't honk like a traffic jam in Rome! The above shot was taken just as I was about to leave, the clear blue sky was promising anything but a decent sunset even though the sun was sparkling nicely on the rippling water. I'd spied the rushes earlier but couldn't make a comp work, then just as I packed my gear away a bank of high stratus cloud sneaked into view just above the horizon and rather speedily passed in front of the setting sun. Psychedelic light show time!

For all the colours in the sky it was the bullrushes that drew my attention, I loved their silhouettes against the sunset colours on the water. Quickly getting into position I fired off a couple of test shots, and was blown away by what the long exposures were doing to the light on the water. The way the light and colours were smeared and glowed from within reminded me very much of the paintings of J W Turner, the English Romantic landscape artist. I'm in awe of his work especially The Fighting Temeraire and his other masterpiece Rain, Steam and Speed. He's commonly known as "the painter of light", and once you've seen his astonishing paintings you'll understand why, so I would highly recommend all landscape photographers to familiarise themselves with his work. His vision of the world around him and his ability to capture light was and is second to none, so do yourelves a favour and check the man out. Anyway, I still needed a longer exposure to get the final effect I wanted. A couple of Cokin NDs soon sorted that out but in doing so created another altogether different problem, that being the notorious Cokin colour cast. On this occasion it added a pink/purple tinge. Normally I would correct for it but this time I left a hint of the pinky purple behind as I liked how it blended with the oranges, golds and reds of the sunset. Personally I prefer the impressionistic effect as it says more to me about the moment and the magic of light than a technically correct colour balanced version. Hope you like it, and don't forget to check out Turner!

As always, go to L!