Aminus3 of Shuva
"Teacher's Day, Hip Hip Hurray"
Posted by Shuva Brata Deb (Bangalore, India) on 5 September 2006 in Abstract & Conceptual and Portfolio.
I dont know if shouting the above slogan is the appropriate way of celebrating Teacher's day, but thats what we used to do at school procession taken out on this day. We used to walk on the road, the students of all shools forming a huge procession and everybody shouting this slogan.
In India, Teachers' Day is celebrated on September 5, in honour of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, its second President, Profeesor of Philosophy and a noted educationist, on a day which happens to be his birthday.
Its interesting to note that it is celebrated all over the world but the dates are different. Every country has a fixed date, but not the USA--they have it on the Tuesday of the first full week of May. Strange!
Srinivas from Visakhapatnam, India
Nice way of remembering a great day shuva. Excellent lighting in the shot. The way the floppy drive is placed makes it presence little unrecognized. You should have tried a different way of placing it :-).
5 Sep 2006 6:12am
Jason Kravitz from Brussels, Belgium
nice tribute to teachers and a good still life
the lighting is good although you could probably get rid of the higlight on the spine of the purple book with some creative use of angles.
I am reading (I started it 7 months ago so not reading it much!) a great book called Lighting Science and Magic which is an excellent reference on lighting. Not only studio lighting but how to see light in all aspects of photography and by using angles (the family of angles to be specific) you can control glare and reflection etc...
5 Sep 2006 9:55am
Raghu from United States
Ah the Teacher's Day.. reminds me of school days.. all those memories of imitating your teachers on this day.. fun all the way.. btw nice snap :)
5 Sep 2006 1:54pm
Suby from United Kingdom
I love the composition and framing you have done here, the lighting works, Suby
5 Sep 2006 6:10pm
Prashanth Manikyarajaiah from Bangalore, India
Nice way to say thank you to our teachers.
Sigh, miss those goog old school days :(
6 Sep 2006 5:30am
Leslie Horacek from Brussels, Belgium
love this composition with the apples and pencil propped upon the books.
6 Sep 2006 11:36pm
Mia from United States
I've read that Jeffrey Archer book... forgot the title though. It had the same cover, but maybe cuz I bought it sometime back in India (and left it there).
Nice composition, lighting and angle.
7 Sep 2006 3:19pm
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