Friday, July 31, 2015


Raju needs to forget architecture. Its disturbing.




"It was post-WWII when the respected LOMO factory of St. Petersburg started creating a twin-lens reflex camera called “Komosomolets” (meaning “Young Communist.”), which was especially marketed towards amateur photographers. It was a copy of the 1938 German Voightlander “Brilliant” camera, so the design wasn’t really fresh. Come 1949, the original Lubitel (literally meaning “Amateur”) was presented – an enhanced and improved concept of the “Young Communist” cam. With its better features and quality, the Lubitel sales shot to over a million units sold worldwide, and was followed by the equally successful Lubitel-2, raking in two million units from its 1955 launch, to its demise in 1980."
- www.lomography.com

Music, Words, Images and Moving Images are in decreasing order of ease of evoking emotions. Thus Moving Images being the least easy to evoke emotions, becomes an 'inferior' medium. That makes it the most difficult to master. 
                                                                                       - Arun Gupta (not the exact words.)

Once upon a time Raju in a tuition class saw a girl in a red t-shirt. That just stuck.
Six years later Raju bribed a friend with Sharjah Shake to see her and tell her Jil.
Its Stuck.

Sharjah Shake - It is that summer banana shake that rocked in Kerala. No clue about its origin but its made of bananas and crushed semi-solid frozen milk sometimes with a twist of boost or chocolate added. 
Ok frankly speaking. A lot of Sagitarian Frankness.
This is stupid. A harmless leaf blurred by optics. So what?
Why should one spend a lot of energy on clicking a random leaf? Is it worth?

Inside Raju's Head : It is a processed digital photo from a physical B/W negative. So it is in some physical sense, a graph. But isn't some ideology, concept, idea, vision, purpose or understanding needed to call it a photograph. Clicking a random good looking lion or building will not be wildlife photography or architecture photography. 

Ok Done ! This is not a photograph ! 

Sometimes Raju wonders whats the point of all this education. 
But to wonder Raju needed education.



Its just a few steps away that spot of madness. But Raju doesn't have legs.