Lord Ganesha bids farewell; but majesty, divinity captured forever

Special Correspondent

NewsBits.in

Bhopal: The festivity and divinity surrounding the ten-day Ganeshotsava would come to an end for this year on Thursday, but some of the images have been captured forever in a very creative way by a Bhopal-based group of photography enthusiasts.

The group of amateurs, who call themselves the Bhopal Photowalk team, went around the city recently, capturing the images of Ganesh Festival in a most unique and creative way – through reflections.

This meant that no direct images would be clicked, rather reflections on various surfaces would be identified or created before capturing them as photographs.

So, making best of their creative ideas, the enthusiastic photographers clicked images of Ganesha as reflection on cell phones, in the side view mirrors of cars and bikes, through spectacle in the 'borrowed' mirrors from people and helmet glass.

Also, camera lens, through the camera filters, electric bulbs, on the windows of car, view pointer of camera, on the metallic strap of the watch and any other interesting reflective surface.

“It was fun to see everyone trying to find some new way of clicking reflection images. We had never thought we would find so many options. You name it and we tried it,” photo enthusiast Anil Gulati, who led the group said while talking to NewsBits.in

It was especially fun to see group of photographers standing on the side of the road at red light crossing before the New Market and trying to click Ganpati idol in the small pieces of mirror fitted in a wall mural opposite the Apex Bank, Gulati said.

Passerby were curious and many stopped to watch the photographers in unique action.

The photographs were uploaded on the Bhopal Photowalk page on Facebook.

The Photowalk concept was introduced by Gulati almost a year ago.

The group of amateurs started moving around during special occasions in the city to capture images in different ways.

Slowly the number of participating members has increased.

"It serves to give exposure to the budding photographers and also is fun,” Gulati said.

The group included Disha Malviya, Varun Namdeo, Chaitanya, Himank Jain, Pulkit Gandhar, Saksham Alkari, Yash Agrawal, Sanskar Singh and Mohsin Khan.