World Photography Day: Capturing Moments, One Click At A Time
Gone are the days when the words, "Ready! Smile!" were the cue for a group of people, standing as if already frozen in a frame, to smile widely before the sound of a click and a blinding flash of light filled the room.
That era of formal photography where professionals were hired to take posed, say cheese kind of photographs to record events such as weddings and other mega family celebrations is mostly in the past now.
On World Photography Day today, lens persons take stock of a different kind of photography that has come to the fore, the kind that catches a groom stealing shy glances with his bride, or a doting father sharing a quiet moment with his daughter.
It is also the kind that captures the first moment of a child in the world, a mother looking at her new-born with tear-fil...