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I am a Data Science PhD student 📝 on weekdays, and an explorer 📷 on the weekend.

@naren_khatwani007 (check out more pictures at my instagram page)

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It’s been 11 years I have been using professional gear for photography now. However, I want to talk about how I was introduced to photography as a hobby?

When I was around 5 years old, on Rakshabandhan that year, I was handed a film camera by my dad to click a picture of him and my aunt (dad’s sister). I still remember, it was the first time I ever held a camera in my hand and started clicking pictures with no regard to the film count. Within minutes the camera was grabbed from my hands and I was given a small talk on how a film camera works!

Since then I always asked for the camera from my parents to click a few pictures whenever we traveled or attended any family events. This went on for a few years until my father gifting me my first ever professional camera, a Canon 200D DSLR in 2017, which I used for 5 years. I eventually moved to buying Sony a7c as my primary camera and Fujifilm X-T30 II as my secondary camera over the next few years. Since then photography has been one of the activities I do almost every day, attaching a picture that I took this week below.

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Gallery

A few photos I love.