Christmas 2012

November 23, 2012, a friday, it was rather known as “black friday” in USA (engalukkum America’le friends irukkaanga ). When I told about my idea of buying camera to my friends the day before, they asked me to search for deals in black friday offer in US. I spent most of the day looking for deals but could not get a decent deal for my budget ,so got it here in spencers through my senior-photographer friend. Finally, I was holding my own camera , canon 550D 18-55mm , it was a great feeling indeed , When I returned back home it was 11:30, still I could not go to sleep without taking my dream “first click” and I had to take around 15 shots to get close to what I had in mind , this is the one

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Started learning many things and started experimenting along with friends during our photowalks since then. Even then I never thought this might be useful apart from my own satisfaction of being able to take some good snaps. Then came this day , Christmas 2012. We had work all four days from 22 to 25 decorating the church, coaching the children to act in skits, etc,. Our lead anna there had brought a 600D from one of his friends for the function. I showed him how to change the settings , and I offered to cover the function and few photos came out well and I felt really really happy for being involved in photography.