Till now we (his friends) had been the only subjects for RG (as we call him) to practice his photography skills with his Nikon D90 SLR Camera. A recent trip to Musandam – the Norway of Arabia, gave my friend an opportunity to experiment with capturing nature and move forward on the path from being an amateur to a professional. As the rest of us were enjoying the wind, the sun and the sceneries, RG was using permutations of aperture and shutter speed to best capture the scenic beauties into a frame.
While most of the pictures we reviewed from the digital camera were breath-taking, I realised that the ones is black and white were incredible!
This made me wonder, technology has advanced making things go from black and white to colour. But, what is it that makes the black and white ones not lose their charm, and at times be more appealing.
While searching for the answer, I came up with a couple of theories.
Black and White has just two colours – Black, and White. The rest are merely the shades of them. With the abundance of choices around us, we have started to appreciate simplicity in things around us. Keeping things simple can make us recognize the worth of the beauty that lies outside the ornamentation.
When we see things in black and white we do not see the imperfections that lie in colour. We learn to appreciate the object itself and not get disturbed by the blemishes.
Putting the coloured details out of focus and concentrating light on simplicity can make life more beautiful. Let’s try Black and White the colour in our lives - and we may unravel many more beauties that lie beyond colour.
I think you got it perfectly right.... Every aspect has only two things in it... Like black and white, it is either right or wrong, in or out, yes or no, etc... Keeping it that simple makes life easier in middle of an over doze of choices which is the colors and the shades available in life....
ReplyDeleteGreat to hear that you related it well with photogrpahy and hope RG does well in his new passion on photogrpahy...
Very well written Aditi, but when you see all the colors, even they are a combination of just three colors - red, yellow and blue. And to add to that, it's bcoz we see everything in color today makes black and white so appealing once in a while. Imagine how boring it would be if there were only shades of black and white. Seeing a black and white movie once in a while is interesting but you always come back to the colorful life.
ReplyDelete@ Saurabh - I completely agree with you. I liked your viewpoint. Colour brings life to the dull, but at the same time black and white conceals the differences people see because of the colour and helps focus only on the core substance - which was otherwise got subdued by the colours.
ReplyDeleteFlamboyance makes things look attractive and interesting but one should also learn to make things simpler by going black and white. Balance of both is the way to go :)
nice thoughts!! every complex problem always has a simple solution... and it largely depends on the way we look at it..
ReplyDeletevery nice description aditi... way to go ! :)
Very true! We have been so much into appreciating different shades that we forget that things existed in black and white before the world saw colors and life then was still as beautiful as we think it is now.
ReplyDeleteWell written Aditi, Black and White really resemble the simplicity in life. They reduce complexity in our lives, fortunately or unfortunately in life we have to deal with many colours in life which I guess makes life even more thrilling.
ReplyDelete@Rushit - I gpersonally believe there will be many aspects in life where we cannot say yes or no, good or bad. There will be a point where grey shade and colors come into picture and many times we will be in cross roads...