MSP Quarterly Magazine - January 2019

New Year Edition January’ 2019

Largest Platform For MicroSensor Photographers © MicroSensors Photography 2019

Featured Artists : Front Page : © Anurag Datta – India.

MSP Challenge 1 – Drops features Anurag Datta – India, Rumi Paul – India, Suvarna Pendharkar – India, Abhishek Jagushte – India Subhajit Debnath – India, Vivek Majagaonkar – India Milind Tambe – India, Mohu Amit Mishra – India Viresh Vanarote - India MSP Challenge 2 – Expressions Admin’s choice – Soumitra Roy – India Member’s choice – Niranjan Dhongade – India Honour Mentioned – Jorenz Paz Sinfuego – Philippines Satyajit Roy – India, Prithavi Limbu – India, Malou Jose, Claus Seubert – Brazil, Dela Paz Marq‎- Philippines, Vivek Majagaonkar – India

MSP Challenge 4 – Textures Admin’s choice – Jorenz Paz Sinfuego - Philippines Member’s choice – Anurag Datta – India.

Honour Mentioned – Jaka Supadma Klax – Indonesia, Shriram Kondhawekar – India, Ginan Rauf – USA, Claus Seubert – Brazil, Vivek Majagaonkar – India, Hendrik Mulyadi – Indonesia, Smita Mohan – India.

MSP Challenge 5 – Reflections Honour Mentioned – Niranjan Dhongade – India, Jorenz Paz Sinfuego – Philippines, Piotr Bene – Poland, Shreya Banerjee – India, Vivek Majagaonkar – India, Dheeraj Shirgaonkar – India, Rumi Paul – India.

Composition in Photography – Vivek Majagaonkar – India, Jessica Yngvesson, Satyajit Roy – India, Manoj Kale – India, Sameer Yardi – India, Sandra Sa Santos, Claus Seubert – Brazil, Ramy Lopez – Philippines.

Abstract Photography – Ginan Rauf – USA.

MSP Challenge 3 – Lights and Shadows Admin’s choice – Claus Seubert – Brazil, Member’s choice – Cherry Rose Domerin Honour Mentioned – Vishal Kulkarni – India Vivek Majagaonkar – India, Jaka Supadma Klax – Indonesia, Soumitra Roy – India, Suparn Khaladkar – India Vidyadhar Pawar – India, Prithavi Limbu – India, Claus Seubert – Brazil, Tushar Patel – India.

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Macro Photography – Malou Jose, Tushar Patel – India, Siva Dinesh Kumar R – India, Avinash Rajeev – India, Manish Dwivedi – India, Suhas Ghule – India, Dharmesh Padhiyar – India, Suvarna Pendharkar – India, Jaka Supadma Klax – Indonesia, Anurag Datta – India, Claus Seubert – Brazil, Hubert Utnicki – Poland, Shriram Kondhawekar – India, Niranjan Dhongade – India.

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New Year Edition – January’ 2019 Cover image : © Anurag Datta All copyrights belongs to Micro Sensors Photography, India.

Publication Date : 1st January 2019 Write us : microsensorsphotography@gmail.com Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/groups/471271103319087/

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Objective Photographs are the universal language of our era. Everyone has hundreds, maybe thousands in their pocket.

Weightless, they turn the scale when the argument is: What happened here?

Images don’t age or warp. A great photographer’s strings never go out of tune.

Modern Smartphones have evolved to a stage where images captured with a communications device rival those created using a dedicated point and shoot camera. It might not be a digital SLR, but your Smartphone is punching well above its weight when it comes to photography.

That’s why the lens and sensor combination that spends most of its life in your pocket is probably the best you own.

Now almost everyone has a MicroSensors in his/her pocket. So we use it whenever we find a good moments to remember. These Micro Sensors maybe in your Smartphones, tabs or any small devices with Micro Sensors. And we use those regularly.

Here, in Micro Sensors Photography Group, we construct a platform to showcase your MicroGraphy, channelize your creativity to a healthy competition followed by appreciation. We as MSP admins highly promote for Out of box thoughts, knowledge sharing and open discussions about MicroSensors Photography.

Warm Regards, MicroSensors Photography, Admins and Editors

Background Photograph – © Soumitra Roy

© Micro Sensors Photography

VIVEK MAJAGAONKAR

SATYAJIT ROY

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CONTENTS

Page 07 Introduction

Page 08 MSP Challenge 1 - Drops

Page 14 MSP Challenge 2 - Expressions

Page 18 MSP Article 1 Composition

Page 22 Macro photography

Page 30 MSP Challenge 3 Lights and Shadows

Page 34 MSP Article 2 Abstracts

Page 38 MSP Challenge 4 Textures

Page 42 MSP Challenge 5 Reflections

Page 46 The Beautiful Path, we have to walk on...

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THE BEAUTIFUL PATH, ON WHICH WE HAVE STARTED TO WALK WITH THE ENTUSIASTIC

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Introduction

Dear Friends, Happy New Year 2019 Thank you for choosing MSP – Micro Sensors Photography Club for sharing some amazing micro sensor photography work from all over the Globe.

What is Micro Photography Club?

Sensor

Forgot DSLR? Couldn't carry? Or if you don't have DSLR or point and shoot cameras... Doesn't matter...

Now, almost everyone has a Micro Sensors in his/her pocket.

So we use it whenever we find good moments to remember.

These Micro Sensors maybe in your smart phones, tabs or any small devices. And we use those regularly.

Welcome to the world of MicroSensors...

This group is intentionally created only for Micro Sensors Creative Photographers.. No DSLRs, No Point & Shoot , No Bridge Cameras… Only and Only Micro Sensor Cameras…

What do we do with these creative photographs?

Here is New Year Edition of our publication to show you, how all of us going to be work together in future.

Just go through it and if you find any suggestions, please drop your thoughts or suggestions to us at “ microsensorsphotography@gmail.com ”

Are you new to this?

Did you receive this issue from one of your friends?

Did you find it interesting?

And you feel, you can also show your creativity to all our Global readers?

You are always welcome to our group on Facebook And yes, you can recommend to others if you have anyone photography enthusiastic personalities in your family or friend circles.

If you have any queries, our team is always be there to help you.

Here, we are looking for your creativity through your Micro Sensors...

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Water Drops

“Those tears of the sky for the loss of the Sun” © Anurag Datta, Samsung J Edge + Macro Lens

It is said that “Creativity has no limits!" and if you have the vision then the world is not enough for a creative person and if the person is fond of photography, then the sky is the limit. And now a days it has become more easy for people to capture perfect pictures with mobile phones as now a days the mobile cameras are with high quality sensors.

And people with passion & love for photography capture such pictures with their mobile that one can't imagine. So now device does not matter much, it is all about skill, vision and love for photography.

So keeping the above sentence in mind, we thought of starting the monthly challenge for our Micro Sensors Photography (MSP) enthusiastic © Micro Sensors Photography

“Droplet Beauty” © Rumi Paul, Samsung Galaxy A5

photographers.

As the rainy season was on peak so we thought of giving “WATER DROPS" as first challenge. There were no restrictions, they could have framed their pictures in anyway they wanted to. To our surprise,

we received a huge response of amazing pictures from our creative photographers. As mentioned earlier, it was time of rains, so this was an excellent opportunity to capture “Water Drops“.

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“Flower in rain” © Suvarna Pendharkar, Samsung J7 Duos

Water Drops

“Just after slight Rain Showers” © Abhishek Jagushte, Honor 8 Pro

We mostly have imagined water droplets with flowers. And it was surprising to see that we didn‘t receive droplets only with floral shots but also with different elements like grass, perches, peddle, leaves and also on windscreen of cars.

Some photographers

used external macro lenses and some used only their devices creatively. And they showed, every single photograph is with a great story within it. We had to reduce our selections on the basis of quality. So here are those finalized images.

“A flower’s heart is safe in a droplet” © Rumi Paul, Samsung Galaxy A5 © Micro Sensors Photography

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Water Drops

“Rajani Gandha” © Subhajit Debnath, Redmi 3S Prime

“Flower in rain” © Suvarna Pendharkar, Samsung J7 Duos

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“Drops...” © Vivek Majagaonkar, Redmi Note 4

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“Tears Of Happiness” © Subhajit Debnath, Redmi 3S Prime

Water Drops

“Wet Blur” © Milind Tambe, One Plus 3

“After Rain” © Rumi Paul, Samsung Galaxy A5

“Have a Delicious drink in a Flower Glass” © Rumi Paul, Samsung Galaxy A5 © Micro Sensors Photography

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Water Drops

“Rain Drops...” © Mohu Amit Mishra, Redmi Note 5 Pro

“Macro...” © Suvarna Pendharkar, Samsung J7 Duos

This is why, we love rainy season. Rainy season gives dreams to observe water drops. That encourages to every soul in the world. And the Creative minds capture those drops with any devices, they have. © Micro Sensors Photography

“Dew Drop...” © Viresh Vanarote, Redmi Note 4

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Admin’s Choice “Happiness” © Soumitra Roy, Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime

Expressions

“I have always strived to find emotions through my photography.

During the festival of colours, I was lucky enough to capture this gem. It shows the pureness and

innocence that lies within the smiles of children. They show no care for the troubles and obstacles in this world and spread their wings in full glory.” – Soumitra Roy...

Member’s Choice “But dad, I don't want this funny cap...!” © Niranjan Dhongade, One Plus 3T

“We were going out for a family function and were all getting ready.

The little gentleman was also super excited. But the moment he saw that hat, immediately was crestfallen. So I decided to record his reactions.

Out of 2-3 photos he could let me take, this was somewhere presentable.

My son hates monkey caps... “ – Niranjan Dhongade

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“ motions are beautiful when they are Expressed” It’s a God’s Gift to Living Beings on the earth...

Human beings are using the precious gift to express emotions.

We give presentations of our expressions most of the times, through using almost each of our body parts.

Human Faces are the most expressive.

How about animals and birds?

Yes, similarly they give lot of expressions too. But they can’t © Micro Sensors Photography

express through their faces.

They use their other body parts like Beaks, Tongues, Legs, Eyes, Voices, Tales, Feathers etc..

We wanted our enthusiastic Micro Sensor photographers (Mobile Photographers) to capture and get creative with different EXPRESSIONS be it humans or animals or birds, So we gave "EXPRESSIONS" as second challenge, and as we expected received huge amounts of amazing pictures..

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Expressions

Honour Mentioned “1..,2..,3 Smile...” © Jorenz Paz Sinfuego, Asus Zenfone 3 Max

Honour Mentioned “Thoughtful..” © Satyajit Roy, Samsung Galaxy J7 Max

Honour Mentioned “Confused..” © Malou Jose, Huawei P20

Honour Mentioned “Way to accomplish a task” “This picture was © Prithvi Limbu‎, Samsung Galaxy J7 Max taken in the train whilst travelling from Delhi to Hyderabad. He had they lived together in Delhi and at just finished a wonderful date with the same time he is focused and his girlfriend in Delhi and was now determined to accomplish few life going back to his home in changing tasks that he needs to Hyderabad. He is lost in the complete in Hyderabad in order to thoughts cherishing the moments be with her for the rest of his life.” – Prithvi Limbu. © Micro Sensors Photography

“Many Kids now a days are confused and unaware of what kind of past time, we had before. When technology is still not the big thing to our society.

Before, We used to climb trees, play at the street, even catch tadpoles in the rice field. This kids was confused and amazed as well as I tell story what kind of things we used to play when we were at their age..” – Malou Jose.

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Honour Mentioned “Attention and expectations..” © Claus Seubert, Microsoft Lumia 640XL

Expressions

Honour Mentioned The Mauli (माऊली) (its Marathi word and that means mother) was seating in the shadow of the Dnyaneshwar Temple in Alandi, Pune, India. At this age, she found her own way to satisfy her soul with reading Dnyaneshwari (The book written by Dnyaneshwar on Bhagwat Gita). I have just asked for a capture. She nodded with a little shy.

“Happy..” © Dela Paz Marq‎, Huawei Nova 3 i Found this sweet goat. I think he loves taking pictures

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“Satisfaction was there on her face..” © Vivek Majagaonkar, iPhone 6S

“Happiness is watching Sunset..” © Vivek Majagaonkar, Blackberry 9700 Bold

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Article : What is

Composition?

Author: Vivek Majagaonkar

Composition

some unwanted part. But there might chances of loosing some quality of the photograph or you might land on to crop some good elements in the frame. Here are few more examples...

An Article on "Composition“ Author : Vivek Majagaonkar – India.

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omposition...What is Composition? Definition of composition. :

the way in which something is put together or arranged or the combination of parts or elements that make up something.

(Definition from Oxford Dictionary) What is composition in Photography?

Composition in photography refers to the way "the various elements" in a scene are arranged within the frame.

We believe every art has been created with Composition. In a solo dance, the arrangements of steps creates a good composition which remembered for long time. In a group dance, with steps we add synchronization between the dancers give results to the best performance. We can say that performance as a composition. (?) A writer, the way he/she puts words in sentences to remind forever, which we can refer to the composition of a sentence. The way they arrange those sentences, creates mesmerising novels or essays.

Photography compositions are almost similar to the Painting compositions. A painting artist visualize about the elements. They arrange the elements in their vision. Compose the elements in mind. But a photographer might cannot change the things or placements of the elements but the photographer has to capture the frame with all the elements or has to drop or add one or more elements to fulfil the composition.

Are there any rules for the composition? Actually Art should not be bound in rules. So there isn't single rule. But Art has guidelines. In photography, we have given name to the guidelines as "Rules".

Let's see some Rules or guidelines.

Rule of Thirds. This

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© Vivek Majagaonkar iPhone 6 S

composition mostly recommended,

popular and used by photographers. How to use it? Make 9 equal parts of a frame with two vertical and two horizontal lines. You'll get 4 cross points of those four lines.

© Siva Dinesh Kumar R MI A 1

© Jessica Yngvesson Huawei Honor 9 Arranging main element on the cross points of the lines, called as Rule of Thirds. OR Arranging one most important visual line in the frame on one of the lines. It is better if you arrange the frame like this while capturing a photograph. It can be done with cropping © Micro Sensors Photography

© Satyajit Roy Samsung Galaxy J7 Max

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Composition

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Leading lines. It is a visual or actual line created by some 3. Frames within frame. Adding visual or actual frame(s) in the

repeated elements. Arrange such one or more lines that make the frame (photograph / capture). Such as doors, windows, gates, tree frame as an art. We can add Rule of Thirds with this also. branches etc... But those frames shouldn't be main elements.

Arranging the main element within a frame will be focus point of the photograph.

© Satyajit Roy Samsung Galaxy J7 Max

© Manoj Kale MI Max

© Sameer Yardi iPhone 7

© Sandra Sa Santos iPhone 8

© Vivek Majagaonkar iPhone 6S © Micro Sensors Photography

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Symmetry. Symmetry means like a mirror images of one

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Minimalistic. Capturing a frame with very small size

Composition

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another. But, you may not find exact mirror elements together but identifiable element or small group of elements and keeping large can be found similar to each other. empty area. Empty area isn't mean there shouldn't be anything.

There may be less focused repetitive patterns or maybe empty sky or may be foggy jungle. That empty space should support to focus on main small element(s). Or the main subject should be odd within large similar elements or patterns. Photographers are defining Minimalism in very different ways to each other. Some accepts repetitive patterns (without disturbing) as minimalism etc..

© Claus Seubert Samsung J7 Neo

© Manoj Kale MI Max

© Sandra Sa Santos iPhone 8

© Ramy Lopez Huawei Mate 10

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There are no such Rules to create any Art. Those are just guidelines. Above mentioned 5 guidelines are just tip of the iceberg. It's not necessary to follow all or any one. But anyone's photography can be improve with the help of those guidelines.

Those can help to find out your own style of photography. Those can help to improve your vision.

Just note that Sky is the limit in Creativity...

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Macro Photography “Eyes on Me” © Tushar Patel, Redmi Note 3+ Macro Lens

“Blue Bottle Fly” © Malou Jose, Huawei P 20 + Macro Lens

“Net Winged Insect” © Siva Dinesh Kumar R, MI A 1 + Macro Lens

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“Red Bug Couple” © Avinash Rajeev, Lenovo K 5 Note+ Macro Lens

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Macro Photography

“Blue Bottle Fly” © Manish Dwivedi, One Plus 3 T+ Macro Lens

“Grass Hopper” © Siva Dinesh Kumar R, MI A1+ Macro Lens

“Dragon Fly Closeup” © Dharmesh Padhiyar, Redmi Note 4+ Macro Lens developing good Micro Sensors. Also they are developing good quality lenses for their mobile cameras. And soon the picture has been changed.

Nowadays, anyone can capture Macro Photographs with good “Blue Bottle Fly” quality camera mobiles. Also qualities of the photographs have © Suhas Ghule, been tremendously improved. Comparison of the photo Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge + Macro Lens qualities with DSLR photos is not that easy now. You can just imagine here with these excellent Macro Photographs. Some are captured without external lenses and some are with ew years back, Macro Photography was a dream for every external Macro Lenses.

Micro Sensor (Mobile) Photographers. That was only possible Many companies have started developing Macro as well as through DSLR with Macro Lenses as well as now some bridge Wide angle lenses. We can say that It’s a big revolution in cameras are giving such capability to capture Macros.

Micro Sensor Photography.

Later, Mobile manufacturing companies have started

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Macro Photography “Reflection of Fly” © Suvarna Pendharkar, Samsung Galaxy J5 + Macro Lens

“Macro Of A Fly” © Suhas Ghule, Samsung Galexy S 7 Edge + Macro Lens

“Yellow Jacket” © Jaka Supadma Klax, Asus Zenfone 4 Max+ Macro Lens

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“Namste” © Anurag Datta, Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge + Macro Lens

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Macro Photography

“Wall Brooch” © Claus Seubert, Samsung J 7 Neo

“Spider with prey” © Siva Dinesh Kumar R, MI A1+ Macro Lens

“Red Cotton Stainer Bug” © Dharmesh Padhiyar, Redmi Note 4 + Macro Lens

“Bumble bee” © Hubert Utnicki, HTC U12 Plus + Macro Lens

“Fly Akka Makhi” © Anurag Datta, Samsung S7 Edge + Macro Lens © Micro Sensors Photography

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Macro Photography “Jumper” © Shriram Kondhawekar, iPhone 6S + Macro Lens

“Blue Bottle Fly” © Suhas Ghule, Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge + Macro Lens

“Damsel Fly” © Dharmesh Padhiyar, Redmi Note 4 + Macro Lens

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“An Insect’s closeup” © Siva Dinesh Kumar R, MI A1+ Macro Lens

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Macro Photography

“Magical Light” © Dharmesh Padhiyar, Redmi Note 4+ Macro Lens

“Jumping Spider” © Anurag Datta, Samsung Galexy 7 Edge + Macro Lens

“Spider in Web” © Subhajit Debnath, Redmi 3S Prime + Macro Lens

“Nature’s Designer”-Garden ORB W. Spider © Dharmesh Padhiyar, Redmi Note 4+ Macro Lens

“Jumper Spider” © Suhas Ghule, Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge + Macro Lens © Micro Sensors Photography

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Macro Photography “Spider” © Siva Dinesh Kumar R, MI A1+ Macro Lens

“Hide n Seek” © Anurag Datta, Samsung 7 Edge + Macro Lens

“Bathing Beauty” © Niranjan Dhongade, One Plus 3T + Macro Lens

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“A butterfly” © Siva Dinesh Kumar R, MI A1+ Macro Lens

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Admin’s Choice

Definition

of

darkness

means absence of light...

Shadow is also known as partly darkness. As we know, our earth’s weather contains N number of dust particles and they reflect some amount of light. And so we can see things into shadow. When camera research and development has been started, developers considered the this thing. And they found a way to capture photographs through different devices.

Lights & Shadows

“The Faith Through The Window” © Claus Seubert, Samsung Galaxy J 7 Neo

Every captured photograph is made with “Lights and Shadows... “ With the reference to the line, our members took the 3rd challenge to show their creativity through their Micro Sensor Devices...

What they have shown us in the challenge, were completely out of the box.

There wasn’t limit to a particular subject. And they have taken good advantage of that to show all together different world of “Light and Shadows” in photographs...

Member’s Choice “Chick in Light” © Cherry Rose Domerin, Samsung Galaxy Note 2 © Micro Sensors Photography

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Lights & Shadows

Honour Mentioned “Evening Lights” © Vishal Kulkarni, Redmi Note 4

Honour Mentioned “A Warm Evening” © Vivek Majagaonkar, MI Note 4

Honour Mentioned “Water Fountain” © Jaka Supadma Klax, Asus Zenfone 4 Max

Honour Mentioned “An Indian Tradition” © Suparn Khaladkar, Asus Zenfone 2

Honour Mentioned “Colors Of Nature” © Soumitra Roy, Redmi 2 Prime © Micro Sensors Photography

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“Shadows” © Vidyadhar Pawar, Samsung G570 F

Lights & Shadows

Honour Mentioned

Honour Mentioned “Silhouette” © Prithavi Limbu, Redmi Note 4

Honour Mentioned “Red Morning” © Claus Seubert, Samsung Galaxy J 7 Neo

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Honour Mentioned “Game Of Lights & Shadows” © Tushar Patel, Redmi Note 3

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Article : Abstracts Author: Ginan Rauf

Our lives often begin before we are born. We find

Abstracts

Article on “Abstract Photography“ Author : Ginan Rauf – USA. Device : iPhone 6S

characters -------whose -------lives touched me but whose physical presence remained -- a fleeting image across the page. It gave me great comfort to take refuge from the messiness of life and the vulnerability of a body that can suddenly succumb to a fatal disease. With the onset of breast cancer I fell into my body and awakened to the world with eyes wide open and hungry for life and all things living.

ourselves in a particular world, inside a family and network of relatives we may or may not have chosen to accompany ... us....on this strange journey called life. We arrive with particular bodies, a genetic predisposition to remain healthy or ... a propensity to get sick before our time.

Well, that happened to me. I was diagnosed with breast cancer in my forties. But what does all this have to do with photography, you may ask yourself. Well, in my particular case it had everything to do with the daily practice of photography. I had studied comparative literature as an undergraduate student. In graduate school I dedicated my time to literary studies.

Words were my primary form of expression, the way I related to the world and to others.

For years I retreated from the natural world, spent hours conversing across ... time and space ...... with © Micro Sensors Photography

Daily walks became essential to my wellbeing, a way to manage the stress and boost my immune system. It Such solitary forays into the wilderness turned me into a ( landscape photographer… It was an organic process accompanied by the gradual recognition that making images was no longer a luxury, a frivolous activity to pass the time or distract myself from the more immediate task of getting well. It had become inseparable from the process of healing itself. There can be little doubt that the waterscapes I photographed on my daily walks connected my body to the healing qualities of water on which our lives depend.

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Abstracts

Creating images that had never been seen or seen in a particular way… intensified ………. ….. the feeling of being alive. I felt like I was making images for the sake of bringing beauty into the world, a world marked by human suffering and continuous loss…

…… gathering fragments of lost beauty in a world falling apart, a world that needed to remade over and over again. The challenge for me as a photographer has always been to capture the loss….. With fresh eyes. Perhaps that is why my landscape photography returns repeatedly, with renewed hope and a sober awareness of death, to ….autumn landscapes. It is during the fall that leaves, intense with color, can look like a fresh bouquet of spring flowers.

I came to know myself as a maker ——————— © Micro Sensors Photography

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that alludes to the fleeting nature of the image. These patterns are sometimes brought about by shifts in the seasons or a gentle breeze creating abstract forms on the surface of the water. The technology is only one part of the story. It is surely a blessing to those willing to paint with their eyes. Still, a photographer has the ability to approach the same scene with fresh eyes, to isolate the shifting elements and compose an image that never been seen before, at least not quite in the same way. I often depend on post-production to heighten the tension or luminosity of these fleeting moments.

Abstracts

So why do natural landscapes sometimes inspire me to capture abstract shots? This may have something to do with my practice as a photographer who returns to local landscapes repeatedly. I return with a determination to capture an ‘’extraordinary sight in familiar surroundings, a shareable moment that focuses on the intense beauty of everyday experiences. The smart phone has largely democratized photography. Our cultured is saturated with images of stunning sunsets but are we seeing the familiar scenes with fresh eyes? That, for me, is the challenge as I attempt to capture the fleeting overlooked beauty I spent hours chasing in the woods or by the river. Moments are of the essence. I zero in on an abstract slice, a close up that contains line, patterns, light, color and a hint of tension or luminosity

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Admin’s Choice “Veins” © Jorenz Paz Sinfuego, Asus Zenfone 3 Max

Textures

Have you ever been observed

Member’s Choice “Nature Alone is Unique” © Anurag Datta, Samsung Galaxy Edge 7 © Micro Sensors Photography

“Textures In The Nature”? If you try, you may find amazing creations by the Nature. Our mother earth itself is a very good example of that. She has tremendous textures like Mountains, Sand Dunes, Water bodies, Greenery and so on...

That's what, we were looking into our 4th Challenge...

Textures In The Nature...

Our talented Micro Sensor Photographers have been taken the challenge very seriously and it was really tough to choose an Admin’s Choice.

Everyone had unique ideas to show natural textures. Finally we land up on “Veins” on a leaf of a tree/bush.

And of course our members have also chosen beautiful image of an open mushroom leaf on a tree trunk.

Let’s take a look over the selected images from our members...

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Textures

Honour Mentioned “Cracked ground” © Jaka Supdma Klax, Asus Zenfone 4 Max

Honour Mentioned “Textures on a leaf” © Shriram Kondhavekar, iPhone 6 S

Honour Mentioned “Tree Bark” © Ginan Rauf, iPhone 5

Honour Mentioned Honour Mentioned “Soft... Soft... Soft...” © Claus Seubert, Samsung Galaxy J7 Neo © Micro Sensors Photography

“Textures on a tree” © Vivek Majagaonkar, iPhone 6 S

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Honour Mentioned “Mashroom textures” © Vivek Majagaonkar, iPhone 6 S

Textures

Honour Mentioned “Textures on leaves in BnW” © Claus Seubert, Samsung J7 Neo

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“Water Lily” © Hendrik Mulyadi, Huawei P20 Pro

“Unseen World – Message from a leaf” © Smita Mohan, Samsung Galaxy Note8

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Honour Mentioned “No hard to guess reflection is on...” © Niranjan Dhongade, Lenovo P 70

Reflections

Honour Mentioned “Jump High..” © Jorenz Paz Sinfuego, Asus Zenfone 3 Max

Almost

every material on the

earth reflects some amount of light.

And almost every glossy material gives reflections, Reflection gives the depth. Even if the reflection is flawless, you may fail to judge © Micro Sensors Photography

Honour Mentioned “Reflections in color” © Piotr Bene, HTC

whether there is reflective material or not. If you put edge less and flushed non tinted mirror on any surface, then chances of guessing presence of mirror goes to very less. Well, leave the technical part.

Our 5th challenge to our creative

Micro Sensor Photographers was “Reflections”.

Our enthusiastic photographers presented excellent images with great new creative ideas. Here, they have considered Water surface to reflect their ideas.

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Honour Mentioned

Reflections

“Natural Mirror” © Shreya Banerjee, RedMI Note4

Honour Mentioned “Mashroom textures” © Jorenz Paz Sinfuego, Asus Zenfone 3 Max

Honour Mentioned “Twins” © Vivek Majagaonkar, iPhone 6 S

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Honour Mentioned “Son’s Reflection..” © Dheeraj Shirgaonkar, iPhone 6 S

Reflections

Honour Mentioned

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“Dramatic sunset..” © Vivek Majagaonkar, iPhone 6 S

“My world is in the eye” © Rumi Paul, RedMI Note 5 Pro

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© Satyajit Roy © Micro Sensors Photography

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