With great technological advances and modern techniques, great pictures emerge as far as wildlife photography goes. Often I love to look at such pics.
What is remarkable, however, is the fact that the modernity of the mode/form is a vehicle for the feelings and emotions as ancient as ever. What is truly noteworthy , moreover, is the fact that even in the animal world, the eternal feel continues forever.
Of the best ten pictures in that series, there was this absolutely brilliant underwater picture of a mama otter teaching her baby to swim. The mother's stern expression, yet her concerned worry about the baby's safety, the love felt in her tender hug, the baby otter's fearful curiosity, the entire emotional drama, is beautifully captured in the brilliantly superb photo.
It reminded me of Aai's favourite most story, Raju's first day at the school. We were both sent to school early. So he was very small, never had lived even a moment away from her. The teacher apparently told her to let go of his hand, and go away. He started crying hugely. The teacher kept on telling her to go back home, and not even look back. Every step away from him was a punishment. Yet it had to done. The pic had the same motherly bitter-sweet expression.
Yet another lovely snap depicted two squirrels playing away to glory, lost to the rest of the world. The pic captures beautifully one twirling in the air upside down, and the other expectantly looking on to join in on the fun. Like two kids absorbed in to the make believe world of their joy filled game!
The most touching one, however, dealt with pain, the real eternal feel all species share forever. It revealed our Darwinian forefather, the eternal clown of the Green, with such hurt expression in every pore of his body wounded by some human contraption that I understood why artists, especially poets, are forever right, captured as the snap did the feel of the best songs being born of the bitterest sobs!
Pratima@ eternal emotions, forever art!
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