The photography genius in software engineers

In the last few weeks or months rather, I couldn't help avoid noticing the sudden surge in the photography talent of software engineers. I mean, cmmon who the hell created a seperate photography profession, the geniuses are sitting right amongst us. You can find the examples everywhere, from links on twitter to orkut to facebook to flickr to picassa.
I wondered what happened? Is it that the evotuion of humans went wrong and is being corrected now, that the software engineers were meant to top the charts of photography but were somehow being subdued by their bosses? That they decided to break the chains and break free while the women folk thundered the parliament with 33% reservation. My limited understanding of biology and psychology didn't give me an answer, but curosity, it sure did!!!

I guess the cameras have become way too cheap especially in US(bides), the most comon thing your friend will ask you to bring when you are returning from that awsome onsite trip. I guess long time back, the software engineers decided to be great writers (bloggers), right after quenching their thirst at creating so wonderful forwards.
When I entered software industry, my yahoo and google mail box used to be full of such e-mail forwards that I could spend days just reading them. Now it is full of photographs and link to photographs and link to links to photographs. The majority of space in my facebook 'home' window is occupied by photos. Some videos , though, sure grind their way into the midst of plethora of photos, but by far, very few of the.


And anything which is not a human photo (say not the photo of the latest European city they are visiting), there are frantic 'likers' who like it and find it an amazing milestone in the progress of modern art. Scared at being left behind in the praise for this art, my humbke self joins the bandwagon. It is sometime fun to be a rat in a palce where there is no race. No wonder, Farhan Qureshi in wanted to be a photographer of all the professions in the world. And it touched the chord with so many delightfully delighted audience.

I guess no one can beat the fantacies of the software Engineers. From the college, where almost everyone is convinced that he will either join a rock band or become a world leve ager
, or a politician and where college comes last in the priority to the industry life, where the old timers (losers) are still stuck on their passion for blogging, to the new junta which is more interested in photography, that to not of friends or marriage, or tourism, but pure abstract modern photography. Goats, buffaloes, flowers, sky, poverty stricken children, rings, clothes.

While it has made the life of work stricken software engineers so lively and colorful, full of adulation, the real photographers are the ones bearing the brunt. Once a friend of mine was explaining his modern photography to me, it was a sleeping man in a rickshaw, with a dog near it. He was trying to explain to me the serene expression on his face, inspite of poverty which is why it became a modern art. The dog portrayed the essence of human life, you are born, eat to be alive, have sex to breed and die.
At the end I expressed my inability to comprehend such depths of art and told him that he was a farce and that he was another of those people and that he didnt know anything about photography.
He told me about the details of his camers, the pixels and zooms and contrasts and zooming on the subject, work of light on face, polarizers, rims, sunglassing, horizon lining and also about some more cameras which are more costly and he dreamt of buying some day. Having lost the argument, I decided that I should go back to my facebook and 'ooh' on every photo that I see by anyone. But my newly installed chrome browser refused to show the images on any page!!!
No wonder they say, no one can hate software more than Software Engineers.