He couldn’t even set up his tripod there; his hands were not as steady as they used to be some years ago. Age was taking its toll from his energy. After ten minutes of struggle with the tripod he finally mounted his camera on it; but he had forgotten to put the film inside. “God damn those digital cameras” the only thing that came in his mind in those cursed moments was the ease with which the next generation was able to take photos.
“Grandpa! You should get a digital camera for yourself now; they’ve got good mega pixels, you can increase their memory and download pics straight to your pc” his granddaughter would often ask him to rid of his old film camera. But he had always been a conservative, a traditionalist; he loved his old film camera. He had been a professional photographer for a leading magazine for over three decades. Three months back, they finally let him go; “God damn those digital photographers.”
He inserted a film in the camera and finally got ready for his shot of an old tractor emerging from the haze; when he heard a car approaching the bridge on his right. He halted his shot and waited for the car to pass by, but the car stopped and he heard the door open and someone stepping out on the wood-plated floor of the bridge.
He didn’t like it when people would stop to see him take photos; he loved his privacy. But this time it wasn’t about watching him take the shot; he heard a few clicks of the camera from the far right edge of the bridge. Confused; he looked at his right.
Someone with a digital camera had just taken his photos.
(Fiction based on the Photo)
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April 22nd, 2008 at 5:41 am
Nicely illuminated. Tough the time of analog photography has gone but still it was unique of its kind. I remember an old photographer who used to cover the events held in Army Schools. I went to him for getting some of my old school pics. He innocently found my picture in his stock of negative rolls and developed it on the spot. I asked him whether he still uses the analog camera. He explained that the sense of the real photography has been vanished from the public after the invention of mobile and digital cameras. It was time when peoples specially pake photographs from their anolog cam and then complete their 36 snaps and then develope it. It was a craze and a suspence, how the snaps would be………… inshort, he was disappointed.
But as time passes, it converts into history.
Thankyou Sir, for a wonderful tale.