Category Archives: philosophy

Retiring this blog!

Google has retired its very pop­u­lar reader despite pub­lic cry. Of course, a whole lot of 3rd party soft­ware devel­op­ers have stepped up to fill in their shoes… Thats is not the ques­tion though. I think Google is send­ing a mes­sage that blogs as a means of infor­ma­tion cre­ation & con­sump­tion is no longer accept­able to

2011: Lessons from 2010

Based on my per­sonal expe­ri­ences, here is a list of things I rec­om­mend to you as a Pho­tog­ra­pher. Think seri­ously about these in 2011 if you still haven’t already done it… So, here goes: Backup: Excuse my lan­guage but S**T hap­pens. When it does hap­pens, all hell breaks loose. It is always bet­ter to be equipped

Travel notes…

When peo­ple turn to pho­tog­ra­phy, there is that ever slight change in their behav­ior that I noticed.…These may or may not be typ­i­cal of every­one, but just based on my obser­va­tions from my most recent trip… I have noticed that Japan­ese pho­tog­ra­phers crouch (bend both their legs mak­ing their stature shorter) when tak­ing pho­tog­ra­phers — despite them

Backing up…

Lots have been writ­ten on the sub­ject, and frankly — just like every­thing else, every­one has their “way” of back­ing up stuff. Every other type of backup prob­a­bly works well, and there is no “right” way. It is impor­tant how­ever to ensure that you are back­ing up your work and that it is a pain­less

Limited edition prints..

In my opin­ion, there is no such thing. It is bogus and just snake oil. Back in the days, print­ing was tech­ni­cally chal­leng­ing, labor inten­sive and repro­ducibil­ity was dif­fi­cult. Mas­ter print­ers made exten­sive notes on their test prints, trained a select few on how to read these notes and make prints. In most cases, these mas­ter

Photographer or artist?

Well, I have often felt that there is a stigma asso­ci­ated with the term “Pho­tog­ra­pher” in some social cir­cles. The term “Pho­tog­ra­pher” means dif­fer­ent things to peo­ple based on pre­set notions and social sit­u­a­tion. Sim­ply said, A pho­tog­ra­pher is someone/anyone who uses a cam­era to cap­ture pic­tures. How­ever, thats not the end of the story…

Understanding Art

My recent trip to Philadel­phia Museum of Art to see the works of Picasso and his con­tem­po­raries has been an epiphany  in some ways. The exhibit I am of course refer­ring to is the Picasso exhibit.  As a pho­tog­ra­pher — I find these exhibits very enlight­en­ing.  If you are an aspir­ing fine-art pho­tog­ra­pher, I would sug­gest