Kalakaaris Magazine Aug 2014 | Page 67

Rajesh Kumar DaS Collected&Edited by Vallabh I was born on April 1990 in New Delhi. My dad being in Indian Army has travelled across different destinations in India. Now I am pursuing B.com final year in M S Ramaiah College of Arts Science & Commerce in Bangalore. I think my interest in photography came from my dad. But, for him photography means clicking my photos. I still have the 27 year old camera that he used. I got my first camera (point and shoot from Canon) when I was in my 10th class in Rashtriya Military School, Bangalore. I I first started By Clicking Photos of different events, functions and tours conducted by the school. To my surprise few of my photos got exhibited by the school photography club during our annual day and this exhibition has definitely motivated me to do better with my photography. I got my first DSLR a year ago and started learning photography on my own. Social media and different magazine on photography was the major means to learn photography for me. Till now I haven’t attended any classes on photography. I have won a photography contest conducted by BMS college of Engineering in Bangalore. According to me photography is a continuous process of learning and experimenting with different settings. Being an amateur photographer I would like to add one have to be active on social media and marketing of this skill apart from learning and taking great clicks. To me nature & wildlife is the biggest motivation to do better with my photography skills. Sometimes I have to wait long for the right click but when I get the right click , Which I aimed for, My happiness knows No Bounds. Along with my studies I get time only during weekends to go out into the field for birding, landscape and macro photography. I even go out in nights during the weekdays for long exposure frames across different locations across Bangalore. As of now I want to graduate and work in my stream as well as take photography at the same time because “Photography” is what I enjoy doing whatever the situation is ,irrespective of the time.