What would happen if all the colour was removed from one of the worlds most colourful cities?
What would Bombay be without colour? How would the city look in Black and White? Would it’s colourful character still shine through a B&W exposure? Or will it drain the colour off the city? Or would it emphasize it?
What better way to appreciate the colourful splendour of this city than through a Black and White lens?
On the day of Diwali, a journey was undertaken from Santa Cruz to the end of land at the southern most tip of the Marine Drive promenade – Nariman Point, to lay the groundwork for project Colours of Bambai.
There are several sights in Mumbai which are wonderful, each of which, in its own unique way causes a flutter in your heart and affects each of us in a different way. Over the next few weeks, you will see an attempt to slice off the quintessential from these commonly uncommon sights. An attempt that will attempt to capture the unusual fingerprint of this incredible city, some commonly uncommon sights in some uncommonly common spots.
Here is a pilot view –
Scenes of Solitude
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Love is in the air
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Pathe 
amal said:
Good idea….but not very good post….you can do better
Basky said:
Nice pics. Try panning out a li’l bit, may be. Or have you cropped the frames?
There exists a classic Raghu Rai B/W pic of Haji Ali. I had a soft copy before the harddisk crashed. Now I can’t find it even on Google 😦 That was a GOOD one, especially since Raghu Rai seems to favour Delhi over other cities.
JustPathe said:
@ amal: thanks for the belief…I shall do better next time. 🙂
@ basky: some of these were tight shots, but these are meant to be just a collage..a sort of a dry run. I didnt have this in mind when i took these pics. I took some more, if it appeals to you, i shall post more. Btw…about Raghu Rai, have you seen his pics at this link?
Takooey said:
Brilliant time-pass initiative but i hope it does not catch the virar local 😛
M said:
Calvin: Dad, how come old photographs are always black and white? Didn’t they have color film back then?
Dad: Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs are in color. It’s just the world was black and white then.
Calvin: Really?
Dad: Yep. The world didn’t turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too.
Calvin: That’s really weird.
Dad: Well, truth is stranger than fiction.
Calvin: But then why are old paintings in color?! If their world was black and white, wouldn’t artists have painted it that way?
Dad: Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane.
Calvin: But… but how could they have painted in color anyway? Wouldn’t their paints have been shades of gray back then?
Dad: Of course, but they turned colors like everything else did in the ’30s.
Calvin: So why didn’t old black and white photos turn color too?
Dad: Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember?
Calvin: The world is a complicated place, Hobbes.
Hobbes: Whenever it seem that way, I take a nap in a tree and wait for dinner
I have seen mumbai from the black and white days but looked very different!
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Basky said:
C’mon. Put ’em pics up, unless you have plans for an exhib’n in a gallery or selling them! Some of us lesser mortals have never been to Bombay…
RaghuRai! I had already milked the Magnumphotos site dry 2 years back for Raghupics. The HajiAli pic wasn’t from there. Hmmm, maybe I should check for new ones. I’m also searching for a matchless photo by R, of a naked sadhu (Naga?) seconds before (mid-air) plunging into an ice-cold pool of water at Gangotri…..
Btw, I still like RaghuRai’s B/Ws better than the colours…
JustPathe said:
@M: ‘Dad’ Calvin ka baap nikla!!
@Takooey: Yeah, and they really seem to be tending towards the station – will save them from the tracks this weekend! Timepass things are timepass only so long as it remains timepass. If it becomes organised timepass, then it is no longer timepass! :O
@Basky: Need a lot more Gall to make it to Gallery given this standard 🙂 Other than putting some purposeful use of little available time, I am only starting to use the camera. If a pic is really good, chances are that i didnt take it but whoever is with me did, or it was a fluke, or it is because of the camera – Canon Powershot 2s – which is nt mine to start with!!! :))
Accompliment said:
Commenting on comments for the sake of commenting does not a comment make
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