Hey all! This
blog is mainly about my experiences I’ve had while I’ve travelled, the fun
people I came across, the amazing places I’ve visited, my love for photography
and so on. As seen in my Google+ profile, I’m a Salesforce Developer by
profession but my love lies in travelling and photography.
Let’s talk
about my love for travelling first!
I’ve always loved
to travel. When I was a kid, I used to love to travel as it would make me miss
my school and it would help me escape from all the homework and school related
stuff.
My earliest
memory of me travelling with my family was to a waterfall called Shivanasamudra
which is roughly around 80 kms from Mysore. It was a family vacation so we had
planned the trip for a day. Lunch was packed, sun screen was taken and we
headed off to one of the most memorable trips of my childhood. Since then we
always made it a point to visit a different place every year so that we could
get a break and hang out together as a family.
My real love for
travelling was discovered after my mother bought me a Royal Enfield Classic
350. Damn, what a beast of a vehicle it was! I fell in love with the bike and
my friend and I immediately planned a ride to Madikeri, a scenic hill station
approximately 130 kms from Mysore. It was during this ride I discovered my love
to travel by bike! The adrenaline rush, the satisfaction when you zoom past
someone, the joy derived from riding in the hair pin curves! Man, oh man!
Details of the ride will be published in the following posts. So this is my introduction
on how I fell in love with travelling.
But where does photography fit into the picture??
While I always
had travelled, I had never taken an interest in photography. My idea of
photography was to pose for a picture and if the photo was good, admire the
camera else curse the photographer! (I’m a software engineer so bear the If-Else clauses!)
The only camera
we had in the house was a Kodak camera which had the reel loaded into it. This
camera was ancient and could have been sold off as an antiquity! So, for my 18th
birthday, my mother decided to buy me a camera. Not a DSLR, mind you. A point and
shoot camera or what we call, a digicam! So after much research, I decided to
buy a Canon Powershot and went to the
local store. I was trying to show off to my mother whatever facts I had read in
the internet and a few facts that I had cooked up. When the camera was waiting
to be billed, I was looking at an array of DSLRs kept for display. I was having
a look at one of them (The costliest one kept in the display, obviously) when
my mother walked up to me and asked me how the camera was. I, like anyone else
who had no idea about DSLRs, exclaimed, “It’s a DSLR! Of course it’s awesome!”
having no clue what made it so awesome!
My grandfather
who had accompanied us to the store was an excellent photographer during his
time made a deal with my mom (That is how it works here. Nothing can be got in
one go. You have to make a lot of deals and sacrifices before something is
bought!). He said that if my mom was willing to buy me a DSLR, he would pay
half of its price and my mother would pay the other half. After much
negotiations, the deal was struck and we cancelled the billing of the
forgotten-till-now Powershot and I got my first DSLR, Canon 1100D!
It’s been four
years since I laid my hands on it and much has changed but I’ve never looked
back.
I am someone who
loves to travel and is crazy about photography! For me photography is one thing
and one things only. Capturing memories. I click pictures
because when I look at them in future, I would want to remember the story
behind them. I am not interested in shooting models (nor will I get a chance
to!) so this blog will not have beautiful ladies adorning it! As mentioned in
the beginning, I will be writing on my experiences I’ve had when I’ve travelled
and a few tips on photography and how to enhance your pictures. Interested?
Stay tuned for more!
If you want me to
blog on any particular topic related to travelling and photography, do comment
below so that I can have a look at it!
