I'm passionate about photography. I work in Mumbai for a living. Have studied art and design. Flickr has some awesome talent floating in every corner. And that's fantastic. I enjoy Flickr and have found both inspiration and encouragement from being a member.

I started photography when I was in my late teens. My first camera was a 35mm Yashica rangefinder twin lens reflex. It was my dad's hand me down. I learnt the basics of DOF and metering on it. I've never been comfortable with a flash and remain wary of it. As a student I always wanted to own a Leica and progressively yearned for a Nikon. Both the cameras were impossible to buy as the prices were exorbitant then. Then a friend presented me with a Minolta, also a rangefinder. I loved film because of the suspense. You just had to wait to see if your readings and compositions worked and the thrill of seeing the first contact sheets is unmatched to the instant view on present day cameras. When I got married I was lucky to receive a Pentax film SLR from my father in law. A wish fulfilled, the happiness was not to last though. I was heartbroken when I found my camera missing from its case one unfortunate day. I believe somebody stole it. Time passed. Life was getting digital and my first digital camera of any consequence was a Kodak. I have over the years moved on from a Nikon D60 to a D600 and love my 50 mm prime lens. I also use a telephoto zoom and Tamron macro lens.

As a student, I used to process all my black n white Illford films in the college lab and make silver bromide prints. This was an equally thrilling experience in the darkroom. I could spend hours just watching the images appear in the ghostly red light with enlargers and negative trays to fit on them. Now I use photoshop d to do most of my post processing. I work on the mac with my nikon raw images and prefer not to invest much time retouching.

Have a great day and thanks for the visit!

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