Sajeesh Rajendran

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Trapped in Between…

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Framed in: What ever we do to bring in clarity, Chaos remains… A curse of this generation, lost in the maze of Internet and Digital revolution. With the communication and technologies treading through new paths, the life should have been much at ease and relaxed. But on the contrary all these bring in more and more pressures and unhappiness. None is content with life. Especially, today’s youth are off-track. Not knowing where to go, they are lost in the middle of the sea. Without specific destinations, they wander without directions. This brings in a weird expression in their faces not letting them to enjoy the life in its fullest essence! A serene landscape filled with green lush tea bushes, a cool refreshing river flowing through its middle, a pleasant breeze kissing the lips, musical notes being played by the cuckoos and add on to it gentle drizzles through mild sunlight…. What more do you need to enjoy life? But he is still in Chaos and Solitude… a curse which has been following him through out!

Framed out: This picture was taken at Panniar dam in Kerala during my short stint with HML as an Asst.Manager in one of their tea estates at Surianelli! That was a Sunday and my best pal, sound MIXER Vishnu had come to visit me in the estate. So we had arranged a trip to Panniar dam. A rocking trip with my colleagues Arun.K.Nair, Milton Durom and Sijin. It was amazing in every sense. Boating through the dam for all day with occasional rains and rum accompanying, it was definitely one of those days to cherish. Before getting into boat, when clouds let the sun free for some time, I spotted Vishnu sitting in the banks of the river, smoking and thinking something deeply. He posed an attitude and that raised my interest. Captured with my Yashica, this picture remains one of my favorites.

Grey Frames: we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.       Friedrich Nietzsche

Gliding between Life and Death!

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Framed in: How should we be welcoming death? A question which is a paradox. But according to Osho, while we know that death is in front of us, we must just let off the life fly away from us! Otherwise if we try to cling towards the life, we will never feel content and will die with a feel that we still have lot more to be done in this world. The hope in this case is a villain! What ever the hope may be death is inevitable. You can’t keep it postponed for even a second. Then why this hesitation to accept it?! “The Last Leaf” by O.Henry was an inspiration once.. But later it brought in lot of weird thoughts. It is giving a false promise… There is nothing eternal in this world. The same is the case with a few relations too. Certain relations may be intense but unstable. Every second we will be reminded that this relation is not going to last long for some or other reasons. But still we try to cling on to it. The best way to come out of it is to let it go off.. Let it fly away and never try to call it back. The emptiness may be painful for a few days. But believe me, as the cliché goes… Time is the best healer!  Let the leaf hanging on the edge of the finger fall off.. Let it fly down and perish… New leafs will definitely sprout!

Framed out: This picture was taken during one of our practical classes during my second year of UG. There was a huge structure made of iron and a white translucent material attached to it which we never knew for what purpose it was at that time. (Now I guess it was meant for Table Top photography) It was used for everything else except for what it was intended to! Those were the days when creativity was the buzz word and we were like trying a lot of weird stuffs to prove we were thinking out of the box! This was a result of that search. There was this thing of white translucent board attached to the large iron structure. I got a banyan tree leaf from somewhere and asked my friend Gayu (Gayathri Devi) to hold it with one finger on the board and kept a light directly behind it. The result was this picture. It has a mysterious look attached to it. Another pic in my collection of abnormal photos! It was clicked with my Yashica FX3 camera attached with FX7 lens

Grey Frames: The fear of death follows from the fear of life.  A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.  ~Mark Twain

Beyond Frames :  “Creativity is defeating habit by originality:” (Courtesy: One of the tables in the Transit in Forum Mall in Bangalore and Nitha who showed it to me!). 

Through out… Till the end….

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Framed in : The entire life is a wait… Through out the life we wait for something at every point of time… From the day we are born, the wait is an indispensable part of us. We wait for our mom’s caring hugs during the child hood, we wait for those sweet pecks from dad…We wait for bus, we wait for exam results and what not?!… and when the hormones creates a tickle in us, when we find out the right person…we wait for him/her to be a part of us!!! And every wait carries hope. But there are these waiting which has no definite hopes.. but still… As my friend once wrote to me “Ella kaathirippinu pinnilum oru pratheekshayundavum. Pratheekshayillaatha kaathirippinu pakshe  oru sukhamund!” (Every wait will have a hope.. But this wait, without any hopes also has a pleasure!) yes, that was true. Certain relationships are like that. Even though the hopes and expectations of being together are feeble, the mind tends to wait, of course without any hope!   But the love still exists! Can it exist as eternal even when we have to separate at some point of time? Let us wait! In short.. What is life? It is nothing but a wait for death from the day we are born! She is also waiting for him… with a hope he will come at some point of time to hug her.

Framed out : I don’t have a definite idea when was this photo was clicked. But this is my second year class room.. so it might have been taken somewhere during 2004. And I remember that particular day. It was a tire some day after a trip or something and we were just cooling out in our class room. Suddenly spot her (she was my class mate) standing in the class room door as though waiting for some one! That created an interest in me. The melancholy in her expression caught my attention. I clicked it with my Yashica FX3 without her knowledge! Think she liked the picture!

Grey Frames :  “Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.”   Paulo Coelho.

 Beyond Frames : For all those who are waiting for something endlessly.. (I know a quite a few people now!). Keep faith… The hopes will be delivered.. So wait with happiness!!! 

Rough Terrains…

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Framed in: Barren Terrains… Dried up bushes… Gloomy sky… What else do you require to make your day the worst! The sight of the barren land filled with dried and thorny bushes always brings weird dreams… Dreams of getting lost… Dreams of getting hurt… dreams of being in hot frying pan… and what not!  These weird dried up bushes creates cracks in the still to be explored sky. The unpainted canvas is full of dark patches and gloomy ashes! But somewhere the hope lies in the sky. The hope for a rain to have new sprouts and buds…. Hopes for a brighter sunshine to bring back happiness… Every Dark Patch in life will have a better tomorrow waiting. Wait till the right time arrives to cross the rough terrains!

Framed Out:  A casual morning walk with my elder uncle G.K. never seemed satisfying for my camera. It was a gloomy morning and the light was too less. My Zenith Camera (A 1960 Russian make) had a lens with a slower speed (its maximum aperture was 4.) So I knew it was not the right time. We discussed a lot of things during the walk. Poetry, cinema, Osho, R.K’s Cartoons… Suddenly this happened. There were these dried up bushes hanging on in a rough patch against a grey sky. The stage was set for my camera as I always loved silhouettes. I just took out my camera, Set the shutter speed in 1/30 and supported my camera by holding it tight towards my body and clicked it expecting a silhouette. The exposure was just right and the colour, just perfect. I have not hampered the colour. It’s not a B&W image. It’s taken in colour. But as the atmosphere was so gloomy it looks like a B&W image.

Grey Frames: “Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”        Rabinthranath Tagore

                                                                                                           

Searching for existence..

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Framed in: When an individual loses a sense of personal sameness and historical continuity, he falls into this state known as “identity crisis.” We feel dejected and out of the world. The reasons for we being here in this world is unknown to us. But definitely there is a purpose for our presence here, because nothing happens without a cause. This holds true in every case as in “Chaos Theory”. As the time goes by, importance of certain things diminishes certain other things increases. That’s natural.  This particular statue brings us the memories of the once glorious past it had. Now left untouched, it might have had a fabulous past with even people worshipping it. But now ignored by everyone, broken down into pieces, it still stays in its place with an identity crisis, without knowing its purpose of being there! This can happen to me, to you, to everyone! So beware!

Framed out: This picture was taken at Dauna pola beach  in Goa. One of those rarest beaches in Goa which doesn’t have much sand. This particular statue, raised my interest. The way it stood facing the sea, the mysterious look.. everything added to the interest it created. I dint wait long to click it. With the Nikon FM10 camera loaded with Fuji 200 film, it brought out the colour I intended for. This pic has effectively used the awesome qualities of a tele lens. With vivtar 75-300 lens obviously set at 300 mm, the depth of field was controlled and a slight out of focus added the mysterious touch to it. Taken from slightly above the horizon, this gives the pic a look like that has been taken from an air craft or something which added to its mysterious look! Truly an identity crisis!

 

Grey Frames: “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. “
                                                             Friedrich Nietzsche 

Romantic Mornings….

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Framed in:  Dreams are unlimited. They come and go. For me… most of my dreams are romantic! In fact romantic to the core… These romantic paths… I love these lonely ways and walks through them. These paths are seductive. Seductive to the extend that they make you dream! A walk with her, through this mystic greenery, with fingers crossed, to the horizons, by sharing the dreams and breaths…. What a dream that is! If rain accompanies… what more can I ask!!! But sadly, most of the time, the ways are lonely for me. I cross them alone! Never ever there was some one to cross the fingers over and share the heart beats through these paths. These ways are my dreams… dreams to a walk to the land of dreams unlimited.. With those fingers crossed and shoulders rubbed!

Framed out: This photo is a part of my series titled “Nostalgic Mornings” made as a part of an academic assignment. Clicking pictures in the early hours of the mornings was my passion always. So when I was given an option to choose my topic for the assignment, I dint even hesitate… Mornings.. The romantic, pleasant, cool, blue mornings! At once packed my kit and went to the mountain ranges of Nilgiris to the get the ultimatum! The series was an awesome one with the richness of Morning and coolness of early rays. This pic was one such exposed with my Yashica FX3 with FX7 lens. These are definitely my ways to the Dreams!

Grey Frames: “The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” – Rumi

Beyond Frames: This post is dedicated to some one who has led me to the discovery of the best Music I can ever hear! Who has taught me the meaning of the smileys! Some one who dreams to make my dreams a reality; to walk in rain with the fingers crossed… rains with pearls and crystals… who has taught me “if there is a reason to love, there is a reason for life and beyond!”.. Who always keeps on telling me “certain relationships come without a tag!”  For her magic ragas of love and affection! Yes it is for you… just for you…

 

For Tomorrow….

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Framed in : These photos were a part of a photo Series  titled “India 2020”! “Today’s children are tomorrow’s citizens.” Courtesy… Jawahar Lal Nehru! To achieve the vision of our former president Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam, children have to be prepared from today itself. India, with its vast and rich resources, can definitely become the world’s major power. It’s just that the energy and hard works has to be directed in to the right direction! So, today’s children who are tomorrow’s citizen has to be given a proper vision and guidance to lead India to new horizons. Let us prepare for that!

Framed out: When the topic was given as India 2020, I was in a dilemma… what to shoot? I could think of nothing else other than Dr.Abdul Kalam’s Dream and vision. So, I came out with this concept of preparing the children for 2020. And I must thank my class mates Rajma and Varna who helped me to find a place to shoot those little sweet pies! But, to be honest, this was the toughest assignment I have ever attempted! It was not that easy as you see in the picture! To make them sit in one place and make them hear me was too tough. I wonder how they direct kids in movies. And this might be the reason why films with children gain more popularity internationally!  But they were adorable and sweet! This was an awesome experience for me as a photographer! And more over this concept has gained recognition widely.

Grey Frames: “A developed India by 2020, or even earlier, is not a dream. It need not be a mere vision in the minds of many Indians. It is a mission we can all take up – and succeed.” – A P J Abdul Kalam.

The First Rays….

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Framed in:  Dawn… The first appearance of light in the sky before the sunrise. It brings in lot of hopes along with a pleasant breeze. After a relaxed sleep the eyes open to the coolness of the morning with a lot of hopes and happiness. The expectations are plenty and the atmosphere is pleasant.. The windows are about to open to the new rays of hope!  What more do you need? Go on… Let it be always dawn in your life! And let the symmetry of your life be balanced and let the birds chirp every now and then.

 

Framed out: It was Panjim, Goa. The coolest place for any photographer. The visual variety and richness it offers is quite amazing! A walk with your camera can make you a stunning photographer. I was there in 2004 for the first time to photograph a painting exhibition conducted by Indian Christian Art Association. I was sent by the college to cover the event. The mornings are always tempting. I loaded the Nikon FM10 camera and a 70-200 Vivitar lens and went for a morning walk. It gave me some awesome pictures. This one is particularly close to me since it offers a wide variety of perspectives. The symmetry, The colour,  The lighting, The grandeur of the Portuguese architecture etc. Presenting that Dawn… for you!

 

Grey Frames: “However long the night, the dawn will break”  : African proverb

The Elixir….

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Framed in: Dreams are the very essence of life. Without which the life would have been a monotonous chains of realities. They add in more spices and hopes and smiles… when you dream… you are re-born! So, in a way dreams are the elixir of life! Dreams are one’s own… you cannot expect some one else to dream for you. So you have to dream your dream and you have to Hold on to your dreams tightly! And as the former president of India, Dr.Abdul Kalam stated, “Dreams are not those you see during your sleep, but those are the ones that should make you sleepless! So, I am sleepless and still clinging on to my dreams. Joining me?

 

Framed out: It was one of those boring vacation days. After lunch I usually feel a very depressing laziness which will tempt me to go to bed. But I hate sleeping during daylight! So I took out my Camera and was wandering through the compound of my house with a macro lens mounted on it. I was searching for something strange and peculiar. But nothing captivated my interest. Suddenly I had a close look into my fist and held it above my head against the sun. That captured my mind. Took out the lens cap, set the shutters and apertures at the higher end and clicked with one hand. The result was stunning! This  photo has drawn a lot of appreciation for me as a photographer. There was a mention about this photograph in one of the issues of ‘The Hindu’ when it was exhibited in “Artographies”, an exhibition of photographs and Paintings.

 

Grey Frames : “Nothing happens unless first we dream” : CARL SANDBURG

A Blooming Sun….

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This idea crept into my mind why not a blog with pictures… Yes that was an idea! so here I am with my GREYFRAMES! This will have the Black & White images captured by me… but coloured by my heart, soul and dreams! 
 
Every picture will have 2 stories to share… one inside the frame and the other outside the frame, ie, the story lead to the birth of that picture. And my attempt is to share both the stories with you! This blog will have the pictures clicked by me over the years and rarely a few pics clicked by others if the story is really interesting.
 
Hope this will get going!!!! Expecting a whole hearted co-operation and comments
 
Lal Salaam!