Where it all Started....

Well i am happy that i could finally overpower my laziness.. and here i am with my long cherished dream of a photo blog.. I hope we have some people reading it too ;)


This particular picture was taken back at home in Ranchi during my holidays and it has a story behind it.The story of how i developed an interest in Photography..
I have always thought about it myself..
Why do i love it so much?? 


Well actually this book,The Complete Kodak Book of Photography belongs to my father.I unearthed it from his secret trunk.. which has his name engraved onto it.. every student is given a trunk when he goes out into the big bad world to study,to make a life.. Its a reminder of good old days,so every man keeps it preserved. and i found this book there hidden in there.. Not exactly hidden but forgotten..


i myself dont remember when i found it,how old was i when i found it for the first time... But when i was a kid,after my mother would bathe me and leave me to play or do something on my own,I would bring out this book and flip through its pages.It has some amazing pictures in it.Those pictures left such an impression in my mind that i would never forget them later...
it wonder what is such an instrument that could capture such beautiful moments,the rain,the clouds,the playing kids,the old man..


Each picture had a story..


well it so happens that my father was a photographer himself,his College yearbook describes him as,'you can often find him taking pictures of unidentified objects around the campus'..
Once in a blue moon,he would keep his camera and equipments in the sun,to dry them up.
Those black things,i was forbidden to touch,but my curiosity grew...


One day on a special request my father let me use(read see through the viewfinder of) his Pentax K1000 fitted with a sigma 70-300mm lens...


That was the moment!! It got me hooked on.. i didnt know what was Depth of Field but never thought that the garden rose could look so sharp and beautiful and the background so blurred out..
It was pure magic for me..
That was the day when it all began..