It's a beginning .... Photography4all

'It's a beginning, beginning of some new thing ....
It's our starting day for Photography4all ....
All are blissful ...'

When you start to derive happiness from seeing some particularly awesome light, you’ll realize that photography has changed your everyday experience.

It is a journey, journey through your experience with amalgamation of your feeling and views. You can’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved or hated ....

When people look at my pictures I want them to sense the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice or thrice .... or want to listen same tunes repeatedly ....

Everyone, at some stage, is a beginner may be always in some fields. In work, a hobby, life in general. We look at those who have more experience and expertise than us and feel inadequate... But it's not true always .... It's your own, your lifetime is one so experience and cherish ... don't put a mark for derisory, insufficiency ... Just leave some mark for the future generation ... and contribute to the art in your way ... and most important is "Contribute to the kind of art in your way" not in others ...

Photography is the same. You pick up an amazing photographic machine in a shop, feels its weight, see all the buttons, dials, windows, switches….. we know it’s capable of lots but it’s easy for us to fall into the trap of feeling incapable.

If you have felt like this, you are not alone. Nearly everybody gets over those hurdles, though – mainly by not being distracted by some thoughts that beginners always have, like:

We encourage Photography ... Photography as an art ...

We encourage Art as an ecstatic medium to express yourself .... your self ....

We encourage Exploring of self .. all your aesthetic values and feelings ....

“A photograph shouldn’t be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.” .... Amit Kalantri

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