Hi - I am Puru.

I come from a central part of India from a place called Nagpur, which is famous for oranges.

I remember when I first held a camera, I was just into my teens, it was an old black and white fixed lens camera. It belonged to my elder brother, who had bought it from his pocket money. Once he moved out of town for his higher studies, the camera fell into my hand.

I got hooked on to it like there was no tomorrow. I realised that for the first time in my life I had a hobby. I had begun to enjoy it tremendously and was very sad when I had to leave it because my dad did not have enough money to develop the film or to buy one. But I was a completely different person as long as I had it.

I knew then that if ever I had a hobby; photography would be the one and nothing else.

When I went to college, my pocket money was enough for me to buy a new camera for myself. I bought a Konica HotShot flat camera. This camera took a rather strange 110 film cartridge. It had the dual lens, one for wide angle and another for telephoto. I used it throughout my 5 years in college (bachelor and master of science) until it stopped working. It was my most precious possession in my college days.

Once out of college, I got busy with my job and family and I had very little time to pursue my photography. In 1999-2000, I got a chance to go to the UK on an assignment through my company. While in the UK I found I had a lot of time at my disposal, so I decided to rekindle my first love affair. That’s when I bought my first SLR – this was the year 2000. I hadn’t touched a camera for 6 years and suddenly finding a huge SLR in my hand was overwhelming. I figured quickly that I had to learn a lot, things I never paid attention to earlier. My first SLR was a Canon EOS-300. I still have that camera and is still in a great condition. Later I upgraded to Canon EOS-30 in 2002 - a beautiful piece of equipment.

From then on, I was always in touch with my hobby off and on. Up until 2007 however, it hadn’t yet turned into a passion. In 2007 I bought my first DSLR and that’s when my hobby turned into a passion.

Today I do all kinds of photography – macro, landscape, birthday parties, portrait sittings etc

My gear includes-

Olympus EM-5, E-5, E-30, E-P2 bodies

Zuiko Digital lenses from 7mm to 300mm

Flashes, diffusers, tripod, filters

Sekonic L-758 light meter

1.4 and 2x teleconverters

Macro extension tubes

My Contact: vpuru@hotmail.com

My Websites

www.flickr.com/photos/purusuni

puruthinks.blogspot.com

puruphotos.blogspot.com