Life Unpacked

I have been experimenting lately, with street photography. And as I just shoot with a point and shoot camera (Canon SX150 IS) on Aperture priority or Shutter priority, and without any device to achieve a blurred background, I am trying to incorporate other moving things to give the background a slight blur. You must have seen that in the previous blog post's picture "Anticipation". Here is an extension of that concept with more objects in the frame. Feedback and criticism would be appreciated. Thanks. "Frozen" taken at Fort, Mumbai. ***** Disclaimer: The picture used here is the copyrighted property of Aditi Pathak. Use of this picture anywhere else for any purpose demands permission to be taken by Aditi Pathak. Failure to do so will involve a legal action against the defaulting party. 

I had been itching to go on a photowalk and do some street photography as soon as summer hit Mumbai. But honestly, my love-hate relationship with street photography paired with the soaring temperature (harsh enough to give a friend of mine a sunstroke!) kept me pushing the plan to another day. Finally I managed it last Monday.  As I said, I have a love-hate relationship with street-photography, mostly because I think people will dismiss me as a freak or a media student and I don't want to offend anyone by clicking their pictures discreetly. On my Monday's photowalk, I did coax myself into taking some pictures with human element in it but frankly, it was hard! Primarily because women wouldn't stop staring at my camera (might be concerned).    About the final edits part; I actually didn't find any picture good except these two, basically because they lacked that drawing in factor. Also, this is the first time I've used photoshop to edit the pictures. So yeah...

Lately, I have come across various articles on the web whose title begins with "Date a girl/man who..." and the only thing I find myself wondering after wasting a few precious minutes reading such article is "why?". Well, why happens to be one of my favourite response for almost everything, but the why I ask in the above case isn't out of my curiosity, it is out of the cringe-factor. I cringe every time my eye catches that title, not because I'm fed up of it, but because of the generalization that such articles do! I've highlighted it before too that stereotyping is restrictive, that a person can never have a one-dimensional personality, in other words, personality is multi-faceted. Then why this stupidity? Why generalize that every girl who travels would have a job in "creative" field, or that girl who reads "understands",or that girl who writes "has chipped fingernails", or the one who drinks beer is "strong and i...