I can remember my college life, my father gave Yashika MF-2 super. I always like to travel anywhere and everywhere. I enjoyed riding bicycle and go different places nearer to my college. Joyanta, Asis & me completed our first ever trekking to Sandakhphu, the hightest point of West Bengal,India in 1997. I completed the 5 day tour with my Yashika camera and and two rolls of film. At that time I never think photography may be a big passion for me. In the year 2001, I purchase my first manual SLR camera Cosina C1S with a 35-70 Cosina lens and a cheap 70-210 Viviter lens cosing Rs 12,000/- ($250) by taking a loan from a office with the inspiration of my wife and started shooting.
I can still remember that day when my photograph was published in Times Journal of Photography in Sept 2002. Next month one of my photographs was selected by Better photography and one in a Bengali travel magazine.
In the year 2003 I shifted to Nikon F80 and a 28-70 f/2.8 Sigma lens. It costs almost Rs. 35000/- ($700). Again taking a loan from Provident fund and keep going. I concentrate in photography more and more and enjoyed my new challenge.................
The photograph above during a tour with my wife in a remote hill station named Rishop, the situation was created for about 15 mins and I took some shots, out of which this came the best.
Later on the year 2006 Penguin selected this photographer as a book covers followed by another two in the same year.
1 comment:
keep up the good work Partha. It is always a pleasure viewing your photographs and learning so much from them.
regards
Raj
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