The position and quality of light affect the image.
Where light and shadow fall on your subject – that is the essence of expression and art through photography.~ Scott Bourne
Last week went by so quickly. I was planning to have a post on Wednesday but couldn’t make it happen. Weather is improving in this part of Norway and large clusters of crocus are visible in sunny areas.
The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes. ~ Jacques-Henri Lartigue
The thing I love about photography is that for just a moment, you can make everyone else look at the world the way you see it. ~Amy Spalding
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.~ Garry Winogrand
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I do read books but not review them and most of the time I forget to mention about books on my blog. Some books are hard to put down once we begin and then there are books which demand our time, either hard to read or make us ponder. I am glad to have got a couple of good books recently.
These include “Dancing in the mosque : an afghan mother’s letter to her son” by Homeira Qaderi. I have read a couple of books based on Afghanistan war but this book shows a new side of life of women in Afganistan. Next was “The last train to London” by Meg Waite Clayton. The Last Train to London is based on the true story of the Kindertransport ( Children’s Transport was a unique humanitarian rescue programme which ran for children (but not their parents) from Nazi-controlled territory between November 1938 and September 1939, the nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. The United Kingdom took in nearly 10,000 children, most of them Jewish, from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Free City of Danzig) to rescue of ten thousand children from Nazi-occupied Europe and of real-life hero Truus Wijsmuller, a member of the Dutch resistance who risked her life smuggling these children. It was difficult not to think about the events and the people mentioned in then book. Some extra reading was just necessary.
Mystery of Holocaust escape girls solved after 84 years
Kindertransport exhibit highlights family separation in 1930s
How is your mood now!
I may upload another post to share my views on “Mood” but for now this is it.
Sunday Trees
Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography. George Eastman
Our daily walks in our surroundings has inspired us see the same things differently. We no longer get bored of the same road, the same trees and the same houses. Everyday the light and the weather is different and we get to see each frame from different angles.
I am not interested in shooting new things – I am interested to see things new. Ernst Haas
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Six Word Saturday
The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.~Gordon Parks
Being an amateur photographer I don’t own a studio. I rely on available light from surroundings. Interestingly both winter and spring provide fantastic backdrops for such shots.
Next couple of images are taken in Italy during our recent visit. Lessons learned:
Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world. ~ Bruno Barbey
Six Word Saturday
Silent Sunday
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I am not in science fiction but someone mentioned the book during one of our book club meetings. After being on waiting list for a couple of months I finally got the book. A book which was set in the future after a flu pandemic, was a captivating dystopian novel.
Now back to the book I was reading…
मेरे चुप रहने से क्या होगा
ख़ामोशी अपनी ज़बान खोल देगी।
-रुपाली
mazeepuran (माझे e-पुराण) 
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