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Mensa Pakistan’s Special Interest Group on Photography. Ideal place to showcase your photographic talent, seek advice, discuss new cameras and gadgets, organise group exhibitions!

Rolls Royce

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I don’t know about you, but my love of the big RR, the angel-mascot car will probably never be taken over by any other car. Its not to say that no other car is as beautiful or as “wow”, but Rolls Royce is something special, very unique, in a class of its own.

And, then, to suddenly come face-to-face with a mint condition 1922 model was a real heart-stopper. Enjoy this collection, friends:

Rolls Royce Mascot

Rolls Royce Mascot

This beauty is currently owned by the Hashoo Group, or most probably by the Pearl Continental, and was on display in the hotel lobby in June, 2008. But the history of this car is far more royal. Its original owner was one of the nawabs, and later it was also honoured to be used by Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

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For the photography minded, the collection was shot with the iphone.

“His Moslem tiger wants to eat the Hindu cow”

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Time Magazine April 22, 1946

Time Magazine April 22, 1946

Through a post on mensa-pk yahoo group by Usman Zaheer I learnt about the absolutely wonderful image archive of LIFE magazine all the way from 18th century to present times.

I searched by the keyword “jinnah” and it had 52 entries. Out of them, this 1946 Time magazine cover caught my attention. 16-months before the creation of Pakistan, Time magazine had this illustration of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah on its cover with the sub-title that had said it all. And, today, the anti-Muslim roits by Hindus tell us that they have not forgotten their cow that was eaten the Moslem tiger 61 years ago.

Overall, the quality of images in the archive is crisp and worth collecting. The subject, the framing, the lighting, all in all, they are masterpeices that we can learn alot from to improve our photographic skills. Mensa’s Photography SIG members must spend time on this collection.

Sergeant-on-the-run

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When I originally took this snap I thought the rider was a mechanic or some sort of support staff riding the traffic sergeant’s bike. But later when I uploaded the picture to the PC I noticed that the rider was wearing the traffic warden’s uniform trouser. But these things are besides the point.

My motivation for clicking were the absence of helmet – something considered mandatory in Lahore – and the black bag dangerously blocking the rider’s front view. I wonder what would another traffic warden do if he sees this rider “breaking the law”!!! Would he intercept this guy and hand him the traffic violation fine? :D

I must be kidding to expect that!!!

Sergeant without safety

Sergeant without safety

Photography Special Interest Group

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The Photography SIG has been created! Anyone who is a member of Mensa Pakistan is free to join. We are looking for a SIG head, so feel free to step forward and introduce yourself in the Comments to this post!

To give you ideas, this SIG would be the ideal place to showcase your photographic talent, seek advice, discuss new cameras and gadgets, organise group exhibitions, even go on a shooting trip!