The Wall Of Faith

The Wall Of Faith, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

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My life long desire has to shoot Idd Namaz at Agra Delhi Ajmer but it remains unfulfilled so I shoot close to home I had shot the Azad Maidan Idd Namaz almost 10 years back, but in all honesty shooting the Bandra Station Road Namaz is what I prefer and it is walking distance from where I stay I know all the people and the organizers so it has become a habit rather than a choice.

One place I can imagine with hordes of Humanity is the Jumma Masjid at Lucknow very close to a lot of shanties.

If I did not have a camera I would have not shot all this, ad I know a lot of friends with high end cameras who dont shoot anything at all, so it is strange world out there and the camera and photography is a matter of taste you inherit at birth or from your guru and you cultivate it like the musician however good you are or have a sonorous voice.This is known as Riyaz,

i always carry my camera so hardly miss anything that falls in the beggars bowl of my camera yes I am a beggar shooting beggars.

I dot sell my pictures nor do I give copies at all.

I shoot for the internet it is my online photo gallery and the bulk of my work over 1 Lac 43000 pictures are all on Flickr.Com.

Some are cross blogged from Flickr to my web sites on Wordpress Blogspot a few on Facebook and Twitter.

I am an Indian Shia Muslim I shoot all religion giving respect and receiving respect but a lot of times I receive brickbats for shooting the blood and gore of my Shia faith from the Wahabbis and other similar adherents and sometimes by the Wahabbi Shias for shooting the Hijras and my Hindu culture is the flip side of a blogger shooting pure undiluted photo journalism.

So in a way pictures the kind I shoot you wont see in newspapers inorder to shoot for newspapers you should be a master in shooting crap , I am learning just that by shooting garbage dumps in around Bandra this genre of my photography is known as Garbage Porn it titillates your base instincts though because the Municipality and the residents who throw garbage wear swine flu masks or blinkers they dot see it so I show all this to the rest of the wide cyber world.

Bandra some parts are the filthiest and nothing will ever change it when Marziya my two and a half year od grand daughter turns three I will start teaching her to shoot the garbage dumps of Bandra the greatest lesson in life and photography.

I also wish computers and photography and blogging be made compulsory at KG level..

I already began teaching my daughter all three before she was two year old ..so Marziya is a page on Facebook with her Gmail Twitter accout and her own website on Word Press.


And in all humility Marziya shoots better pictures n my Nikon D 80 than the average photographer in a Pres enclosure.

So photography is world without walls without borders or barriers it showcases the best of God Man and Nature .

And this is the example of a Blog within the soul of a Bog..

As you begin shooting pictures you become as voluble in words and textual imagery they come on their own because each one of us is a poet and a playwright too through photography.