Eashwer Dass

Two African Women NOT TRUE This is an awesome portrait of two beautiful women on the cover page of an elite fashion magazine featuring the untapped beauty of the African continent and her people, both the women are highly acclaimed professional models, bathed in the finest branded perfume, masked in branded makeup, wearing a fine collection of branded non precious contemporary jewellery and cloaked in trendy summer wear.  TRUTH These two African women woke up this morning and promised that they would live life to its fullest as they do every day, as simply as they breathe the crisp Ethiopian air. BEAUTIFUL Dressed in their pleasant hand woven garb and donning local handcrafted  colourful  adornments wrapped around limbs and neck they set off to catch a bus into their local village town. EDit . Photo:  Shobha Gopinath

A Cliché as said in the dictionary means, an expression that has been overused to the extent that it loses its original meaning or novelty. A cliché may also refer to actions and events which are predictable because of some previous events..... AWE IN CLICHES More than just most people will succumb to accommodate the idea of change with something that evolves constantly with time so much so that it tends to become a trend.  On the other hand people also accept certain routines to be almost sacred, although it does not seem logical to practice them, but it is customary and considered a norm. Take the matter of the iPhone as an example, the bizarre desire for the consumer to upgrade his device to a newer model, even before he can finish paying off for the current one after maxing his credit card or getting the hang of using all its functions to efficiently operate it, is something completely beyond my imagination. The queues in line to get their hands on one of these ...

     Queen’s Crater, Mt.  TangkubanPerahu  Indonesia       Be still, O my Queen, be still, for your  breathtaking  beauty lies only when you remain in eternal tranquillity, only then can I feast on your magnificence thru the mouth of my hungry lenses.  Be still, O  my Queen,  please be still, for all the king’s men and horses  cannot put together what you destroy when you dance in  restlessn ess,  invoking brush-less strokes of artistry,  and  the fiery  spews   of molten rock being your palette of paint, using  Kawah Ratu as your easel,  you  transform disaster  into  a landscape of ravishing scenic beauty... Then, with my burning passion and desire, I will be back once again to zoom in on you.‘’ EDit. Photography :  ShobhaGopinath  ...