Critter Path!

 “a camera is another medium of transportation; a vehicle of exploration…”

The words that form sentences and paragraphs here would take you through a journey gifted to me by a camera.

The camera in question came into my hands some five years back. I don’t know what really brought me into photography; my interest in technology or a passive love for nature. But the fact that I never was about framing a memory for going back to it later, makes it even more difficult for me to understand why I wanted to have a camera. It sure looks like I am a gadget enthusiast who had a childhood want to own a camera.

Whatever the reason be, the journeys it has gifted me are innumerable and immense in its joy; memories, people, connects, thoughts, learning, and so on.

What made me write here, is such a thought or learning gifted to me as I tried looking through this camera yesterday. And the canvas that helped it, is a patch of land that is an ecosystem of many little creatures that survive beautifully beyond our regular vision.

Macro Photography (a genre of photography that is about capturing the worlds of the miniature, the little) was always in my mind since I was introduced to the many genres of photography. Though Landscape Photography is a thing for me, it never took off, as my laziness came in the way. This patch of land always provided new and mesmerizing little creatures that took me even closer to nature. Photography has been the vehicle that helped me make these travels into nature’s immeasurable colors and creations. It has also helped in understanding me better in the context of our surroundings, nature. Photography lends you a special eye to see beyond the usual. It equips us to be observant and turn into keen ‘peeping toms’ in the worlds that we regularly take pictures from.

The most important journey the camera gifted me with this path to critters (creatures) is the understanding that I need to see these miniature creatures (bugs/insects) as fellow beings with similar rights to survive and be, just as we humans have.