Cam-ERA

Clicking photographs is something each and every one of us does. On ‘getting the right moment’, we feel highly blissful. Starting right from the camera obscura (an early form of camera consisting of a dark box with a tiny hole or lens in the front and a small screen inside, on which the image appears) to the ultra modern 3-D camera, the camera has evolved a long way through. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word ‘camera’ as ‘a piece of equipment for taking photographs, moving pictures or television pictures’. But in today’s techno-savvy young world, the camera is not just any equipment. It is an 80% quencher of our thirst for entertainment. Movies, documentaries, ads, newspapers, magazines, websites, blogs—in fact anything that we can imagine has the role of a camera in it in some way or the other. The camera is probably the most mandatory asset for anything related to the media! Seriously, imagining our lives without this small device is something unimaginable in this Cam-ERA!

My simple picture illustrates one of the most important modes of entertainment in this ‘Camera-era’: LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION- the three basic words spoken by every film-maker since time immemorial supplemented by the eternal “Say cheese and SMILE”! :)