In 1982 I was given a Pentax A by my dad to use on my first visit to India to see relatives. I had three rolls of 35mm 100 ASA film and no knowledge about how to take photographs. I pointed the lens and pressed that button. The only thing I liked about that camera was the sound of the shutter and the film winding forward!

So, I took three films worth of shots and I couldn't wait to see the results. Out of 109 shots I took 90% were either out of focus, burnt out, dark and badly composed. Out of the balance, 50% were shaken and the other 45% were framed badly. That left 5%. Out of the 5 odd shots I had left, only one of them was amazing (but at the time I thought it wasn't much good!). It was a picture of my grandmother sitting on a cot in our house in Rajkot, Gujarat.

Needless to say I was pretty p****d off with the results. And so I learnt my lesson in Photography - good photographers are not born, they evolve and in the evolutionary scale, I had just hatched!