Everything is not Perfect

One Bengali Poet wrote in his poem

"Kichutaa Vejaal Kichu Khaad Diye Sab Modhurer Khelaa

                        Marter Maati Maylaa Bolei Ekhaane Praaner Melaa"
Really, if everything is perfect the life would loss its attraction. Here I am showing some imperfect situations / pictures, which I like very much. May be due to the imperfections only they are so close to my heart.

Nothing is perfect individually in this picture. The rose, the leaf. But I love this picture.

Tinni, my daughter did not want to wire her dress after bath. That day she was adamant not to take her dress in her hand also. I said 'would you take my dress?' She was very happy. But the picture I captured was not good. The background, the light in the surrounding area- nothing was not in proper shape. So I decided to finish my picture in the way presented here. May be the perfect picture could not be like this.

The basics of the photography is missing here. The picture, specially the eyes are not in focus.



Here also, the same problem arises. The face of the baby was not clear.

The same problem. The picture was not very clear.

Light and the situation is not favourable. A father does not want to capture such picture of his baby.

Door frame behind the kid was unwanted in photography. But sometime everything was not in your control.

After taking the bath on this day, Tinni was adamant not to comb her hair. At last I offered her a photograph where she would be with madly look with her hair. She agreed happily and the outcome is shown here. Imperfect hair with little spit on her lip. I think this photograph is the imperfectly perfect photograph.

Can you believe that the cropping is done in this way because below that area background was so bad to be edited. I think because of that imperfection only I cropped it like this and turn out to be a beautiful photograph. Really, imperfects can surprise us sometime even more than perfect things.

Greatest Innocence of the Universe

Journey of any of the children is a fairy tell. Even God can't express this by words, by writings, by any means of expressions. I woldn't even try that. What I can only do, I have tried to capture some of their beautiful moments.

This is, I think, the most innocent picture I captured in my camera. Beautiful and elegent, no decoration, no editing. Perfect lighting and composition. Only a simple border to complete the picture.

 

The smile of any kid is god gifted. No ego, no hide and seek, only a bright smile. I captured it in black and white to concentrate only to the cute face of the kid.

 

The activities with hundred percent passion without the fear of failure. Beautiful tone of the skin and matching background make the photo elegant.

 This innocence can be only expected from a kid, not an adult. Colourful hat, light and shadow in the background makes the photo attractive. Yellow dress would have been better option, but everytime you can't get all perfect.

Even just watching something or thinking is also greatly watchable. Again, same skin tone and background colour make the picture simple but attractive. The eyes make the picture perfect.

This picture is captured by my wife. But to edit it, I was very satisfied to get the final look of the picture. Sometime desaturation of the colour makes the kid so cute.

 

The cutest scene of the life, the sleeping beauty. Simple without any post processing except a border.

[Identity of the kids from top: 1. Rupsa, daughter of Mitali & me; 2. Son of Rupali & Shrikantada; 3. Daughter of Kalpana & Sabya; 4. Namrata, daughter of Girish; 5. Rupkatha, daughter of Sunanda & Atanu; 6. Tapur, daughter of my sister-in-law; 7. Rupsa]

Countdown for Durgapuja has been Started

Yesterday, 03rd July 2011 was Rathajatra. That means the coundown of Durgapuja has been stated. On the Rathajatra, ritually, the preparation of the idol are started. Three more months and then "Uma aasben baaper ghare" (Godessa Durga will come in the home). 03rd October 2011 will be Mahasaptomi. Let us recapitulate some great memories of our own Durgapuja.

In the picture, a Bengali housewife is holding a plate full of Shiuli (in Bengali language), the flower of Autumn in Bengal. She has wore gold jewellery with sankha and palaa in both hands and iron in one hand (typical bangles worn by Bengali married women. Sankha is of white colour, palaa is of red colour). Shiuli flower is the official flower of the state of West Bengal and has some sentimental attachment with Bengali as it marks the arrival of Goddess Durga, the biggest festival in West Bengal.

For Bengali, arrival of Goddess Durga means a daughter coming her own home from her in-laws house for some days with her children.

From Mahasaptomi to Vijaya Dasomi she stays and give smile to everybody.

The most happy persons are Children with new dresses and lots of play without study. 

Kumari puja, a typical ritual in some places. Swami Vivekananda started this ritual. Goddess Durga is symbol of devine power and motherhood. Here devotees give their puja to a girl child in front of Goddess Durga as future devine power and motherhood.

Sondhi-Puja. The junction of two great days, Mahaastomi and Mahanabomi. At this moment the evil power Mahisasura was defeated by the devine power, Godess Durga.

The prayer on Vijaya dasomi, please come back soon in the next year.

Sindur Khela, a trational game among married women, with sindur, traditionary considered as the third eye of maried women.

Visarjan on Vijaya Dasomi with broken heart.  

Catching some memories and art works in the mobile camera was always beautiful.

Let us wait for three months for some unforgetable good memories. The persons who are outside the hometown have already collected their tickets for journey to meet with the relatives and friends in the hometown. Marketting will be stated after sometime. The married men, please hide your credit and debit cards, planning of the ladies is already over. The countdown has already began.