Photography....

Just completed the 9 day weekend course (Basic DSLR) on Sunday 22 Nov 2015. I thoroughly enjoyed each of the 8 sessions that I was able to attend. This was at Srini Institute of Photography at Coimbatore ( located @ PERKS Campus)

Overall Srini has designed the content very comprehensively and spaced it out very well. There is just enough basic coverage of the science / technicalities of photography but a very deep and intense exploration of the art of photography. This way the course lights up a passion in the student for the evocative art that photography is. To me, the course kindled / re-kindled my serious interest in photography and converted it into more of a passion. Moreover I also had the following takeaways for which I express my sincere gratitude to Srini..

# Still Photography enables you to capture a moment in your LIFE. What is LIFE but a series of moments strung together on the dimension of time.As I intensely view the subject and the scene and try and connect with it , in a way I can sense the inter-connectedness of all things and also force myself to be "in the moment". Not burdened by the memories of the past or the imaginations of the future.

# In many ways photography is a meditative process. You have to "still the mind" and see the moment as it is !!

# A great medium to narrate a story and communicate to a larger audience. By moving away from "taking a snapshot" towards "making an image", I can taste the joy of this creative medium and expressing my views and thoughts to a larger audience

# Appreciating the connect between painting and photography and the painstaking effort of great painters to transfer their mental images on a medium like a canvas. Can learn lots from observing great paintings!!

# What IS and What IS NOT are equally relevant.. Light and Shadow(absence of light).. recognizing and capturing the interplay of these two is what photography is all about !!

# What you give off and exude is what your nature is !!. A thing is RED because it reflects red and absorbs every other wavelength. Likewise as an individual, we are what we exude. When we operate from a platform of constant and unequivocal love, we are truly loving.

# As you COMPOSE each of your shots, you also have a responsibility to COMPOSE your LIFE and each moment in your life.. recognize all the finer details and weave it into a wonderful tapestry when the breath is still in you. That image will remain after your time is up!!!

# Photography is all about LIGHT and SHADE (absence of light, darkness). Gu(darkness)Ru(one who dispels) : as a guru, Srini has been able to move me from darkness to light.. tamaso ma jyotir gamaya...

Srini is therefore not just a great photographer but also a great human being. am privileged to have connected with him by means of this course and hope to stay connected. This note is a small but genuine guru dakshina.