The Optical Eyes

The Optical Eyes

Dream to Capture Lights

Bharathi Murugan S | 2018011208

The Optical Eyes

Dream to Capture Lights

Guided by: “The Optical Eye”, is the class project prepared and
submitted to the institute, as part of Photojournalism.
Mr. Abin Alex Different genres of photography such as Birds,
Mr. V. Elango Animals, Landscape, Macro, Street, Architecture and
Food photography, etc. have been covered in this
Special thanks to: book. These have been expressed through various
major forms such as Photo Story, Photo Experience,
Mrs. Anu Joseph, Mr. George Single Photo Story, Photo Sequence, Photo Essay and
Eapen, to my family and my Photo Novel.
classmates who supported me
throughout this project. The Photographs, writings, views and opinions
expressed in this book are as per my own research and
This book published under report carried out during my one year photography
the title “The Optical Eye” course held between 2018-2019.
is submitted subject to the
condition that it shall not, by The entire book has been verified to the extent possible
way of trade or otherwise, and I hereby declare that the institute under any
be lent, resold, hired out or circumstances is not in any way liable for the same.
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Contents

01 15

Mirror for Nature Array of Wings
Landscape - Photo Story Birds - Photo Story

21 26

Adoring Avians The Royal Glitzy Bird
Birds - Photo Experience Birds - Single Photo

28 42

Wandering Wings The Landing Egret
Birds - Photo Story Birds - Photo Sequence

44 56

Life in the Wild Being Drops
Animals - Photo Story Macro - Photo Story

70 72

Nature’s Art The Village Busy Bees
Abstract - Photo Story Street & Portrait - Photo Story

77 84

The Mighty Architectonics Healthy & Tasty
Architecture - Photo Essay Food - Photo Story

90 98

The World of Fruits War for Crown
Food - Photo Story Art & Culture - Photo Novel



PHOTO STORY
LANDSCAPE
Mirror For Nature

The purity of nature reflects by itself

Nature is an incomparable gift given by god. We never understand the value of the things
when we have it. Nature has the habit of not showing partiality to anyone. Nature will reflects you.

What we are giving to the nature will return back to us one day.

Nature is something associated with chastity character also. Cosmopolitan transformation,
& purity, as it directly refers and addresses to at times, while turning back, there remains
nature itself. Nature may not be placed under nature. Though, we people kill forestations
the destroyers, though in season it sheds and proudly give a name as deforestation,
leaves, and that too for a new beginning. nature can never be destroyed. Its brightness
Cosmos on the whole is considered to be blue may shatter but, magnificence remains still.
green planet. Obviously without green, there World is thoroughly associated with nature.
is impossibility for blue.
People were worthlessly fighting for useless
As trees and plants silently motivate the material benefits. Leading harmless and hard
reservoirs to flourish as young as they used labour to make people live harmless is the
to be. God gives nature even in its reflection. quality which nature alone provides. And
Nature is the best example for the symmetrical finally treasure is not just a word, treasure
composition. And it will be symmetrical to our remains treasure in terms of nature .

01

LANDSCAPE

Lookalike Tor.
The shine back of a historical Rock.

02

PHOTO STORY

An Art by God.
Divine beauty hidden in Nature.

03

LANDSCAPE

Exalted Nature.
The beauty of nature can never be replaced by human.

04

PHOTO STORY

Lonely twin Wood.
One day the forest will change into city, because of humans.

05

LANDSCAPE

Nature reflects you.
What we are getting from nature is what we give to it.

06

PHOTO STORY

Live with nature.
Conserve your Environmental nature, it will preserve you back.

07

LANDSCAPE

Follow the Nature.
Nature will never lead us to darkness.

08

PHOTO STORY

The Mother Nature.
We are the children of nature, care for it as if she is your mother.

09

LANDSCAPE

Golden mountain.
The cost of nature is more than that of our royal home.

10

PHOTO STORY

Value beyond price.
Even God will take years to create a splendid nature.

11

LANDSCAPE

Evenness of form.
The symmetrical beauty hidden in the woods.

12

PHOTO STORY

The unknown nature.
The secret world hidden under the water.

13

PHOTO STORY
LANDSCAPE

Duplicate World.
The eternal world exist parallel to us.

14

PHOTO STORY
BIRDS

Array Birds are everywhere around this world and
they are of different types. Their food habits
of differ from one bird to another. Some eat
fruits, while others eat insects. Some will drink
Wings the nectors from the flowers, while some hunt
small reptiles and rodents. Some catch fishes
The wings and even some hunt the other birds for food.
can go
anywhere. During some seasons, some birds can’t live
in their native place. So they usually migrate
to different places where they can live
comfortably and can get food easily. Here
are some pictures of different varieties of
birds

Indian Roller | An attractive aerobatic bird.

15

BIRDS

African Pied Wagtail | A small migrator from Africa.

Red Whiskered Bulbul | A bird with natural spike hairstyle.
16

PHOTO STORY

Wood Stork | Large migrating water bird.

Flameback Woodpecker | Wood pecker with fiery wings

17

BIRDS

Osprey | A Kite family loves to eat fish more.

Red-shouldered Hawk | Fish hunting raptor in search of food.
18

PHOTO STORY

Bonelli’s Eagle | A sharp beaked raptor in relaxing mood.

Brahminy Kite | An epic raptor is waiting for the perfect time.
19

PHOTO STORY
BIRDS

White Breasted Kingfisher | A small sized and perfect fishing bird.

Crimson-backed Sunbird | One of the smallest bird species in the world.
20

PHOTO EXPERIENCE
BIRDS
Adoring Avians

The wings with Love

Love is naturally a god’s gift, it is common for all the life.
As it is true, love is restricted not only to humans, but also to all living creatures. Birds
are one of the best examples for that. When I started to capture the pictures of birds, I noticed
that some birds were sitting together. Even, they were flying together. So I planned to share my
experience of sighting different pairs of birds in different places. Here I share my experience with

their pictures.

Ashy Woodswallow : A small bird, usually lives in a flocks.

I started to capture the photos of birds from As I mentioned above, usually these birds live
Periyar Tiger reserve forest. At the beginning together as a group. But in surprise I found
I went on a boat trip in Thekkadi Lake. At that a pair of Ashy Woodswallows sitting alone
place I got some pictures of Large Cormorant on a hollow tree. At the start I thought they
and Snake birds. Suddenly my co-passengers were waiting for their group. But for more
sighted an elephant family. While they were than 15 minutes they were just sitting and chit-
active in watching those elephants, on the chatting with a tweeting sound. Within the
other side, I noticed two small birds sitting next few minutes, when our boat started, they
on a tree, and the name of that bird is Ashy got disturbed and flew away. There after we
Woodswallow. moved away from there.

21

BIRDS

Female Orange Minivet : Friend will be a first person to help us.

After completing my boat trip; I started ones having the habit of considering others
to walk in the pathway to come out of the as friends. Friendship is an effective way of
national park. On the way I noticed two treating others, and that is the social habit for
Female Orange Minivet sitting in a row on a all living creatures.
branch of the tree. And one minivet shared
her food with another one. At this time I After Thekkadi, while I was coming back to
recognized that, humans are not the only my institute, I saw a pair of Blue-tailed Bee

Blue-tailed Bee Eater : A real relationship fight every time, but all that with love.
22

PHOTO EXPERIENCE

Western Yellow Wagtail : Team work will reduce your time and increase your achivement.

eaters near the city. For the whole time they enough insects as food and they proved that
were looking only in opposite directions. It the team work never fails.
seemed they were frightened. And within few
minutes one more pair came there. They were After few days I went to Tamilnadu for taking
Western Yellow Wagtail. In contrast with the Architecture photography. Somewhere near
previous pair they worked jointly to hunt Puthukkottai district I sighted a pair of Pied
some insects. Both of them undoubtedly got Kingfishers. When I started to capture them,

Pied Kingfisher : A perfect dive will give you a perfect fish.

23

BIRDS

Black Drongo : A music composed naturally without any musician.

they completed their fishing. After capturing my first time to properly hear a bird’s song
some of their picture I moved from there. for that much time and that much closer. After
At that point on the way, I noticed a lovely few minutes I left that place.
pair of Black Drongo siting on a tree. When
I started to capture their pictures, they both When I went to Kabini for taking animals
started singing a song for me. Their song picture, inside the forest and near Kabini
lasted for more than 10 minutes. And that is River I got pictures of some lovely pairs of

Indian Spot Billed Duck : King’s way will be the queen’s way.
24

PHOTO EXPERIENCE

Spotted Dove Green Imperial Pigeon

birds like Indian spot-billed Duck, Spotted watching those birds, I’m exclaiming that
Dove, Green Imperial Pigeon and White neck the love and friendship is not only restricted
Stroke. All of them move in pairs wherever to humans, but also it is common for all the
they are going. creatures in this world. The way of exposing
may differ. Whether it is love or friendship,
It is telling us that the love is a gift by god, the affection is unexceptional for every life .
and it will exist even in wild. Whenever I’m

White neck Stork : The way will never end if you are walking with your friend.

25

BIRDS

The Royal Glitzy Bird

26

SINGLE PHOTO

Indian Peacock is one of the beautiful and attractive birds. It is one of the birds which
has a spiritual value. Peacock is famous for its rich colour and magnificent feather and
glamorous dance .

27

BIRDS
Wandering Wings

The wings without boundary

When we mention birds, the first thing coming
to our mind is that they have wings, which
are covered with feathers and they can fly
anywhere without any restrictions. Birds are
the only creatures in this world, which have
no boundaries. Without any doubt, they can
go anywhere in this world with their feathered
wings. Birds have the ability of adapting the
environment wherever they are going. Birds
have been living in this world for so many
centuries.

Loten’s Sunbird. Smallest bird species in the world.

Birds are of different sizes and colours, from
the smallest of two inches to the tallest of more
than 6 feet. Each and every bird is unique in
different ways. Some birds can fly very high,
some birds can fly fast, some birds can run
fast, some birds can swim well, some birds
can sing with lovely voice, some birds can
dance well, and so on. Some birds stay in a
place for their whole life and others migrate
from a continent to another. Here are some
pictures of different type of birds .

28

PHOTO STORY

Female Magpie Robins.
They were widely kept as

cage birds, and one of
the best singing bird.

Lapwing.
An unbelievable alarm
sound of this bird gave a
name Did-he-do-it bird.

Javan Myna.
They are treated as cage

birds, and they are not
much afraid of humans.

29

BIRDS

Male Orange Minivet.
A flycatching bird with
bright attactive colour and
lovely whistling sound.

Yellow Oriole.
This bird sings in pleasant
melodious fluting, with some
buzzing sound.
30

PHOTO STORY

Jerdon’s Leafbird.
A singing leafbird with the

capability of immitating
other birds call.

Western Greenish Warbler.
A small migrator from

Western Europe to India.

31

BIRDS

Indian Grey Hornbill.
Mostly found in the plain of
above 1400 meters. They
usually live in pairs.

Greater Racket-tailed Drongo.
Usually imitate the calls of
raptorts to steal the prey from
the other birds.
32

PHOTO STORY

Male Magpie Robin.
Even though they are
insectivores, they drink
flower nectar occasionally.

Eurasian Hoopoe.
It became the national bird

of Israel by outpolling the
white-spectacled bulbul.

33

BIRDS

Black Drongo.
The aggressive behaviour
towards large birds earns
the name king crow.

Velvet fronted Nuthatch.
With their sharp clawed
toes, they can walk upside
down on the trees.

Jungle Babbler.
They usually live in
groups, so commonly
known as seven sisters.
34

PHOTO STORY

Blue tail Bee Eater.
A strongly migratory

bird, which has a
attractive rich colours.

Large Cormarant.
Fishermen tie a rope
around the throats and

using it for fishing.

Ashy Woodswallow.
Usually sit as a group

side-by-side on the
branches of a tall tree.

35

BIRDS

Indian Roller.
This bird got this name
because of its aerobatic
display in flight.

Scarlet Minivet.
This bird nests on treetop
with small twigs and
spider’s webs.

Pied Kingfisher.
Fly over the water to
detect the prey and diving
vertically to capture fish.
36

PHOTO STORY

Green Imperial Pigeon.
One of the fast flying

pigeons, with a reagular
beats of wings.

Palm Tanager.
A fast singing social unwary

bird, mostly eats a wide
variety of small fruit.

37

BIRDS

Indian Peacock.
The color in the tail feather
of this bird will say the
richness of this bird.

Painted Stork & Wolly Stork.
Thay are large water birds
and usually migrate for long
distance.
38

PHOTO STORY

Purple Swamphen.
A proficient swimmer, but
mostly like to walk on the

sides of water.

Red-naped Ibis.
A large black water bird, but
does not prefer water much like

other species of ibis.

39

BIRDS

White Cheeked Barbet.
A small non-migratory
bird, mostly eats fruits and
berries, rarely eats insects.

Yellow Footed Green Pigeon.
It is one of the herbivorous
birds, mostly feeds on fruits,
berries and crops.
40

PHOTO STORY

Western Yellow Wagtail.
A small insectivorous bird,

mostly prefers to walk or
run instead of flying.

Spotted Dove.
These birds drink by sucking

and don’t want to tilt their
head back to swallow.

41

BIRDS
The Landing Egret

The sequential shot of great Egret’s landing

Birds can be divided into many categories. One of the main categories of birds is water birds. Water
birds mostly like to live near water bodies. Mostly they like to eat fishes and some small animals.
Some water birds like to live near fresh waters and some like to live near salt waters. Water birds are

naturally good at swimming.

The perfect landing | Slow and Steady movement gives the stable placement.

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Egrets are one of the largest water birds, PHOTO SEQUENCE
which can  eat  fish,  small  snakes and
some small reptiles. Egrets  usually stay near
both fresh water and salt water. Egrets are
most famous for their pure white plumage
feathers. Americans popularly used their
decorative feathers for fashion products
during early 20th century. Natively
this familiar bird belongs to Africa. But
later they naturally started to comfortably

settle where they were migrating. Now 
they are widely spread all over the 
world. They  usually  keep their flexible necks
in ’S’ shape while flying, and that is the main
attraction of this bird, not only while flying,
but also during the time of hunting fish.  These 
birds can land even on the low dense plants
in the water easily. Here are few pictures of
an Egret landing on a water hyacinth plant .

43

WILDLIFE Life in the Wild

The Fantasy world with secret lifes

This social world is created commonly for all living things.
When talking about social life, animals are naturally occupying the

significant role in this eco system.

Wildlife is simply indicating the Habitat and life style of wild creatures. Wild
creatures are not only animals, but also birds, insects, reptiles and even some
flora. Life of the wild animals is not peaceful. A Tiger should hunt a Deer to live,
and a Deer should escape from the Tiger to survive. Both herbivores and predators

should perform their routine works to live in this world.
They are maintaining the balanced ecosystem. Humans started to occupy the
forests for Natural resources and for land. We started to destroy the places that
belong to Wild animals. According to science, humans are evolved from a wild

animal. But we forgot our past, and we started to destroy our self

Pair of Sambar Deers.
Sambar deer shed their antlers each year.

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