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What do you expect? chocolate cake was going to fall off!

So I don’t like my photos being taken. So I have one standard smile for all my pictures. So I always look a little fat in photos (and photos alone!). So I hardly have any memories of important events in my life. So I hate looking at photos (let alone take pictures of them) with just animals and insects and objects of mass appeal (supposedly interesting) like trees, empty roads, rocks, building, flowers, beaches, parks and sunrise/sunset. Does this mean that I don’t appreciate the finer things in life? That I don’t understand art? That I don’t really understand what was meant to be conveyed? This just means is that I can’t connect to such captures on a personal level; that these photos don’t really talk to me. I like observing and forming my own perspective on things that are meant to be a work of creative mind. I love “looking” (read getting buried in moments) at pictures that have people in them! I love observing the lives and moments of many those who are so different than me. I love expressions, I love images that capture emotions and I love photographs that tell a tale. For me, photography is about people and that very moment that they choose to freeze. It’s about the bond with their families, their relationship with themselves and others, the closeness with people in their lives, their idea of self expression, it’s about seeing them find comfort in their space, it’s about their moments of joy, it’s about being a part of their adventure and sharing a laugh with them. It’s about my hopes of experiencing the same thrill. I especially love seeing photographs of a wedding. It conveys celebration, enjoyment of family members and friends gracing the occasion, bride and groom’s anxiety of spending a life together with someone they consider their soul mate, hope of promises being fulfilled in future and eagerness of a shy and happy bride to make a beautiful tomorrow for herself and her husband. Even though I don’t like being clicked, in my eventful last one year, I have taken pictures of myself with my friends (thanks to them) more than I’ve ever taken of myself in the last 25 years. I am starting to capture my adventures of life to share them with people I really care about.  I want to relive each of these moments 20 years from now and my collection is going to be a reminder of my fond memories.