thisduck

if i put my mind to it, there’s nothing i could accomplish.

it is surprising, if you are listening, with how much clarity it can be done.

not so many words

P1010037, originally uploaded by thisduck.

I had been wanting to take this picture for months now. But as it were, and as it usually is, ideas remain thoughts. But this time, I figured it was time.

I like it.

koi nahin

[direct audio link]
[audio:http://www.jaaduhai.com/tunes/adnan/bol8/koinahin.mp3]

I always thought that this should be recited really fast, but I couldn’t quite do it myself. Not properly anyway. So this is the best I could come up with.

nasha hai

[direct audio link]
[audio:http://www.jaaduhai.com/tunes/adnan/bol8/nashahai.mp3]

omit needless words

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.

E.B. White and William Strunk Jr. in The Elements of Style

two’s company, three’s a corporation.

i choose quality over quality, and quantity over quantity… but never one over the other.

it’s always one o’clock around this time of the day.

recapture?

set, zoom, focus.
click, flash, snap.
captured, stored, done.

what then is missing?

the shutter speed,
the aperture f-stop,
all set for proper exposure.
the flash and the light,
they all seem so perfect,
they all seem so right.

then what is it that i am missing?
what is it that i want?
how, oh how, do i capture
a moment that is gone?