Camera Obscura
Skeletons of nostalgia
Posted by ConvexClix (Mumbai, India) on 17 August 2009 in Abstract & Conceptual.
Isn't it always so wonderful, visiting your native place, rediscovering these little objects, you grew up with. Life moves on and so do we, leaving behind people, places and these objects. All of them do take us back to a walk down the memory lane.
Last month I visited my home, and I found this chair on the terrace. There are so many memories attached with this. I grew up with this chair, took a nap on it, watched my brother and cousins taking their first steps with its support, used it to gain access to containers mom used to store roasted peanuts, spent nights studying on it, took it at the terrace to sit and soak winter-morning-sunlight, used it as a wicket for our terrace cricket tournaments, balancing a cup of tea on its handle, fixed its straps with my father every few years, jumped on it when India won cricket matches and banged it when they lost, shying from its metal handles when they got too cold in winters and loving the comforting touch of the cotton straps. And many more moments like this.
I am glad its still there. Next time I go there, I will try and revive it.
Nikon D60
1/200 second
F/7.1
ISO 100
48 mm (35mm equiv.)