HIDE & SEEK-(2)

Yes guys may ask u 'in which paper this will be published'...Cautioned by many factors I carry a office bag 10" long with 3 pockets, one used to keep a prosumer and a p&s or a DSLR with 70-300 and p&s in my pocket. The cam bag,camera,lens all black, so less inhibitions,generally keeping distance, mixing when children are pleased...p&s, i use stucking to my chest,stomach and shooting just pointing not letting them know the shutter is pressed and taking many shots,so get few useful..For hiding, a car is best solution, where there is no rush, better if someone else driving and u at rear seat. If anybody finds shooting and annoyed, better leave the place....I do not get came-bag companies angry, since they are making wonderful/versatile bags, good for vacations, functions, weddings, but not for places like small hutments,walking on road,cautious with thieves, public buses,local trains, gardens, where u need not sit and open the gorgeous bag with costly equipments sitting before the standing people around or passers-by...making a show.

HIDE & SEEK

1) STRANGE TITLE....IS IT NOT...HAHAHA...yes practical photography that too outdoors is an hide and seek pleasure...or otherwise 'hide and seek run'. Both apply on the mood of the subjects u face, while hunting for photographs...It is photographer's hide and seek. Not to get enraged by the incumbent subject...IT is the photograph above of my g-son fixing a tripod for a shoot, not for local market but e.g.for going to some hilly area or in a night shoot, or having a big lens to shoot in low light...Then it is alright. But to bring good nostalgic pictures from the local temples, or other religious places or in the local market with full swing is rather difficult. WOULD U LIKE TO LOOK LIKE A PHOTOGRAPHER WITH BIG BAG, MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN A DAMSEL, MORE HEAVY THAT U CANNOT HANDLE, AND GOING ON A SHOOTING SPREE, EXPECTING LOTS OF PHOTOGRAPHS. Here the hurdle comes in..and we have to think of taking photographs with a bag dirty enough, not like a photographers's bag...rather a school bag..(there are good bags around for schools, for executives, that may not pronounce the presence of a photographer...or A BUG on seeing ur profile DOES NOT ENTER THE LOCAL PEOPLE U R PHOTOGRAPHING....Contd.....

2) When I opened up my gear, there were surroundings with children,ladies,men asking 'what photo u want...here nobody will give u a photograph'....This is what i am narrating when i opened up my big shining camera bag (telling of a photographer is around)...The people became cautious,shouts at children to let them in and ladies too walked inside. TIME TAUGHT THEM THAT IF THEY ARE PHOTOGRAPHED, THE PHOTOGRAPHER WILL GET THEM PUBLISHED AND EARN FROM THEM..(they fear the exposure of their ladies).