Emperor Akbar the Great stood here in Fatehpur Sikri near Agra with his wife, Mariam, not long ago. Over 450 years have passed since they lived here which works out to a little over 1,64,000 days. I thought it would work out to be more than that. 1,64,000 days doesn’t seem like a long time ago, does it?
The people of the time aren’t around, but their art, architecture, and tales continue to live on. They probably didn’t have WiFi. Notes tied to pigeons were probably the most advanced way of getting messages across. Now we have telephonic devices with cameras that fit into our pockets, which most of us take for granted.
I watched these lads click each other inside this palace room and step outside to review their photos. I clicked this image with an iPhone 14 with the 0.5x lens. The Ultrawide 0.5x lens makes it that much more difficult to keep our lines straight in an image. I talk more about this in the section, “Apps for clicking RAW images with iPhones”. If your phone camera or app doesn’t allow you to click RAW photos with the Ultrawide lens, you can consider using the SKYVIK Pro 2 in 1 (Wide+Macro) lens.
My iPhone images are an artistic exploration where I look for slices of the real world that are almost otherworldly in their appearance or events. I talk more about my process in the section “Vision and Mission”. While these are photographs of the real world, I don’t look at them as editorial in nature, but in the space of fine art. And as a result I may have altered their editorial content in a manner that I have stated in the section “Editorial Disclaimer”.