An introduction to what this blog is all about

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 18^th 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!