A silhouette of a woman waiting for the bus at Apgujng.

So I just processed and went through about 500 photos that I took at Apgujung. Apgujung is best-known for having a "Rodeo Drive" so I thought that I would check it out as I love taking photos of Rodeo Drive in America. So when I got off work tutoring my kids, I took the #6800 bus all the way to Apgujung which took me about an hour and a half. Once I got there, I roamed around the streets at night while they were still wet from the rain earlier on that day.

Anyways, so I walked around and took a bunch of photos, none which I found really compelling. A random thought then just appeared into my head that related photography to fishing. It went along the lines of this: "Photography is a lot like fishing; sometimes you catch a lot of fish, and sometimes you don't catch any." I felt that my day was a day of uncaught fish. My personal expectations of my photography and work are a pretty high caliber now, so I am having fewer and fewer "keepers," although I get a sizable amount of exceptional images. But regardless, I think that even after a full day of shooting, I can expect to get three keepers, one I find really memorable. Some days I feel more inspired than others and get more, and some days I get even less.

But anyways, back to the photos I got from Apgujung. I got a lot of images that gives a good feel for the area. It will take me a little longer to process all of them, but I will try to update them into this thread

eric

Nice and crisp Eric. Your analogy is so apt - you can't force either fishing or photography - one reason I'm grateful I don't take pictures for a living

Imagination is not out there but inside you. Close your eyes and you’ll find it.
m

...
I just want to be there with someone
when the night comes
...
Joe Cocker

A silhouette within a shadow. Well seen.

As for those "dry" times, it always brings to mind the words of TS Eliot:

"Here I am, an old man in a dry month,
Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain."

Very nice, you have the focus on her and the sidewalk slightly blurred in the foreground. I enjoy fishing too but I find photography much more rewarding.

Eric,

I would like to see this one cropped up or to have been shot closer. I'm afraid I'm losing the point of interest with all the activity going on around her.

Plus side is that the processing is very cool.

I like your fishing similie. I would add that sometimes it doesn't even matter if we catch a fish (picture). The joy is in the experience of the moments of anticipation and in the hunt.

-Tim