My New D-SLR!

[Sahil]

A few macro shots I took.

[arith]

A new Nikon; well you deserve it. Good show, nice flowers and all that. cheers

[Sahil]

Thanks, Arith.
Your name sounds so Indian

[arith]

It probably is; it is short for arithmeticae after Carl Friedrich Gauss and

Disquisitiones Arithmeticae

a sort of hero since he was born to very unremarkable parents. Actually I was a bit stuck for a forum name in H2G2 where I wrote a little about him.

[Sahil]

Phew!
I had to visit Wikipedia. Maths scares me.

[arith]

Does me as well. But essentually it is pattern recognition; however I'm having too much fun struggling with photographic concepts to worry to much about that.

[Sahil]

Oh! To me it seems that you are helping the ones who are struggling (Like me )

[PopsPhotos]

If you are not struggling, you are not progressing.

Keep at it. I started shooting film in 1948. I'm still struggling. Sometimes I think the Red Queen has me by the hand.

Pops

[Shadowman]

It can be very exciting and frustrating undertaking a photographic assignment that presents you with a challenge to your skills. It can also be a bit sad (the challenge is over) once you have achieve your goal and you start looking for the next windmill.

[Sahil]

If you are not struggling, you are not progressing

Quote of the Day!

Red queen? I am sorry but I didn't quite get that.

@Shadowman
But I feel the pleasure you get when you achieve what you had been striving for, lasts for quite sometime. And in the meantime, you start striving for another great challenge So things remain exciting till the time you have something to focus on.

[PopsPhotos]

Alice in Wonderland. She is sitting beneath a tree chatting with the Red Queen, when the Queen grabs her hand and begins to run. "Faster! Faster!" shouts the Queen and she drags poor Alice behind her. Finally, the Queen stops and Alice collapses on the ground, beneath the very tree where they started and which they never left. Alice gazes about and questions the Queen how they could run so fast and so far, without leaving the tree.

The Queen explains, "In this country, you have to run as fast as ever you can, just to stay where you are. If you want to get anyplace, you have to run even faster than that."

(Lewis Carrol, and I've paraphrased the conversations as I no longer have a copy to which to refer. My kids are thieves. )

Pops

[Sahil]

Hehe, Thanks Pops for taking out time and enhancing my knowledge.

[arith]

'Alice in Wonderland' was a set book in my first year mathematical analysis course, and of course Lewis Carrol was a mathematician.

[Amberglass]

'Alice in Wonderland' was a set book in my first year mathematical analysis course, and of course Lewis Carrol was a mathematician.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) was also an accomplished portrait photographer. Not many people are aware of this. Some of his best works includes portraits of John Everett Millais, Ellen Terry, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Julia Margaret Cameron, Michael Faraday and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

[arith]

I forgot his real name and he was certainly accomplished. cheers

[Sahil]

Boy! You guys are so cool. What knowledge bank you got! Remarkable.

[Amberglass]

Boy! You guys are so cool. What knowledge bank you got! Remarkable.

During that era, it's not unusual for writers/poets to use a pseudonym (aka pen names) to hide their identities and privacy. (Actors, musicians, and the likes this do this today for personal or marketing). But when he decided to become a gentlemen photographer, he went by his real name. History and understanding photographic styles/genres is part of going to photography school.

Here's another fact that might surprise you. Canadian rocker, musician, songwriter, and humanitarian Bryan Adams is also an accomplished photographer who works graced the covers of Vanity Fair, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Esquire magazines.

http://www.bryanadams.com/index.php?target=photography

[PopsPhotos]

My photography mentor, back in 1948 gave me a copy of Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass. He told me at the time that there was a link between those two books and a print hanging in his shop. He made me research and discover that link myself.

Because that was before the days of internet for civilians, it took me awhile to connect the two names. I don't remember today which photograph by Dodgson it was, but it was a portrait of a man.

Found the photograph. William Holman Hunt, 1860
http://libweb2.princeton.edu/rbsc2/p...2/00000005.htm

Pops

[arith]

Oh wow; not only accomplished but good at it. He takes photo's I only imagined but maybe a little more contrast than I would use. I'm into landscape now and just learning; as fast as possible. But portrait is an art whatever Duffy says; if you choose the light it goes beyond craft.

You can't choose light for landscape; well only a little bit. I was going to explain what I meant but it is just to hard; I don't know how to do it yet but I'm not working towards a 10 x 8 print but more towards plasma screen.

I'm certainly inconfident to do everything right but maybe make it look right. But anyway it keeps me amused.

Brian Adams is an artist and the few images I've seen show him to be exceptional in photography.

[Sahil]

Was thinking of doing this for long. Took long exposure shots. Tried writing something in the air with my phone's flash-light. Here are a few amateur attempts.

What the....



Nikon, May be



Told my mom that I captured a ghost in my shot. Her face turned white for a second. (You can see me behind the light, May be I sat still for a couple of seconds)



The name says it all...



Loved playing with my camera tonight