Me, My Family & Friends

This is very important post to get the full feeling.

I am a research scholar, doing my PhD, and currently a senior research fellow in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering of my university, working with graphics and images mostly.

 

Photography is my hobby and I do love to travel. these two made a good combination, output of which is this blog.

 

Born in 1982 and first few years I had struggled to settle down in this world. Since I was 3 years old, for the next 27 years, I had travelled a lot (last update is of 2012).
 

My father was in Indian Navy, during his duty years he had been to many coastal towns. He wanted me and my mother to see all the places where he had been. Later on he was working in a place which gave him (and his family too quite often) a lots of scope to travel. We did take this advantage.

We have a large family, so even visiting all relatives made it a huge job, to travel almost every part of India.
 

My father had a camera (not quite a common material in house at that time in the houses of the socio-economic background we were from; he had bought it as he loved photography, quite a luxury at that time) which I had seen since my birth, and played with it many times when no one looked. Later on he bought few more new cameras and all I could do was see. Few times in simple terms he had tried to told me how these things worked.
 

I was always a curious baby, and wanted to learn many things. This made me wanted to see new places too.
 

When I was quite a little one, once my parents wanted to take a picture during some tour and I had to help them by clicking it for them. It was my first ever clicked picture and later on I had taken few more during that same tour and all were quite praised. No, I was not a baby that time, but compared to other little ones of that time, it was early for someone to take a camera in hand (kids these days do take photos, but I must admit we were not much exposed to cameras that time).
 

During my engineering days, I got a gang of friends who loved to travel too. And we din't waste any opportunity. Well, unfortunately not many of us cared (or could afford) much about clicking photos, and that made me the Official Cameraman of our group.
 

Later on when I had joined a job, my work location used to get shifted often. that made me visit furthermore places. But incidentally I had to leave that job.
 

I joined as a PhD student prolonging my student life, and thus getting a little more extra care-free time which I use enough to roam here and there. And during this time I need to travel a lot for my research purpose itself.
 

Ohh I forgot, I do love gadgets, so with time my room and my pocket(/bag) got filled with different types of camera too.

 

Traveling continued...........

Clicking continued.................