Baba Dody
what started the journey
a somewhat accidental shot that changed my entire life.
andrew flintoff clean bowled by danish kineria. pakistan vs england cricket series 2005.
it's amazing how just one photo leads you towards a whole career. passion and craze got left way behind as any two very small words, to describe what photography is for me. it's far more than anything what sanity or even insanity can explain. i should have been a computer god, a search engine expert and a top notch i.t. professional ..... or maybe i should have been a certified chartered accountant ...... had not one but two careers sacrificed over my 'wild-and-free-like-a-stallion-and-dont-give-a-damn' approach towards life........but nay ...... or maybe someone with a steady solid regular income and repute. but no........ i am now a professional sports photographer, a wannabe fashion photographer, a commerical photographer in the making , a bridal photographer at a very small income level and an amateur willing to click just about anything under the sky. it's taken me bizzare amount of patience, zero income for months and months and months ......... innumerable hours of fighting extreme depressions that i'll never be a good photographer or make it to the mainstream even if i do survive a bit .... financial instability that drives me bonkers .... no respect amongst relatives (who avoided me untill i made it to beijing olympics) ...... and zero rishtay for marriage because who'd wanna marry a bloody 'fotograafer' ......... and fighting extremest levels of loneliness & those never-leaving haunting pyscho childhood memories...... but despite all this i still make 100% of my income from photography (doesnt matter how much amount it maybe). i am not a natural born artist. ok i've read books and techniques on internet and used some common sense to try and understand what photography is. i do think i know how to 'basically' operate a camera but i seriously doubt i know anything about photography.
i'm absolutely fine with being abnormal. and given that i'm mostly self-trained and self-motivated (of course thanx to all those books and study material i found on the internet, without which i'd have learned nothing) and that i've come a long long way in these past 3 years (seems just like 3 seconds right now) ...... but my committment, resolve and extreme hard work has only gotten me so far ...... only this far ..........what's next ?
what started the journey
a somewhat accidental shot that changed my entire life.
andrew flintoff clean bowled by danish kineria. pakistan vs england cricket series 2005.
it's amazing how just one photo leads you towards a whole career. passion and craze got left way behind as any two very small words, to describe what photography is for me. it's far more than anything what sanity or even insanity can explain. i should have been a computer god, a search engine expert and a top notch i.t. professional ..... or maybe i should have been a certified chartered accountant ...... had not one but two careers sacrificed over my 'wild-and-free-like-a-stallion-and-dont-give-a-damn' approach towards life........but nay ...... or maybe someone with a steady solid regular income and repute. but no........ i am now a professional sports photographer, a wannabe fashion photographer, a commerical photographer in the making , a bridal photographer at a very small income level and an amateur willing to click just about anything under the sky. it's taken me bizzare amount of patience, zero income for months and months and months ......... innumerable hours of fighting extreme depressions that i'll never be a good photographer or make it to the mainstream even if i do survive a bit .... financial instability that drives me bonkers .... no respect amongst relatives (who avoided me untill i made it to beijing olympics) ...... and zero rishtay for marriage because who'd wanna marry a bloody 'fotograafer' ......... and fighting extremest levels of loneliness & those never-leaving haunting pyscho childhood memories...... but despite all this i still make 100% of my income from photography (doesnt matter how much amount it maybe). i am not a natural born artist. ok i've read books and techniques on internet and used some common sense to try and understand what photography is. i do think i know how to 'basically' operate a camera but i seriously doubt i know anything about photography.
i'm absolutely fine with being abnormal. and given that i'm mostly self-trained and self-motivated (of course thanx to all those books and study material i found on the internet, without which i'd have learned nothing) and that i've come a long long way in these past 3 years (seems just like 3 seconds right now) ...... but my committment, resolve and extreme hard work has only gotten me so far ...... only this far ..........what's next ?