Sunday, July 30, 2006

Flickr Addiction

I am addicted to Flickr, the photo sharing site Yahoo just bought. I have put up all my random pictures there. And I’m also spending endless afternoons thinking up random keywords to search for. For example, I tried “Mud” as a keyword, and found some beautiful pictures of the forest.

I take the Dogma '95 approach of chastity to photography – except some photoshop cropping to adjust composition, I leave my photos alone. I also do not “arrange” photographs. In my mind, my purpose is to take snapshots of life, not create a make-believe life.

The picture on top-left caught my attention. It doesn’t seem real. But there’s an eerie simplicity that I like. Here’s a link to the photographer, Sashiman.


Enjoy. Hope you waste as much time on Flickr as I've started to do. And Here's a picture I took in December 2003 in Rajbari. It is my most popular photo at Flickr.