subroto mukerji wrote:
Hobbies? Mostly obsessions ! Not mentioning, mere interests: reading, writing, watching movies, rowing, small time trekking.
But obsessions, aaahhhhh !Long distance motorcycling, mostly into the hills (1,000 to 2,000 mile trips) - camping, fishing, shooting, living off the land, sightseeing sans camera :-(
Shooting: game birds, bigger stuff (no names); graduated from air guns to a .22, then went on to target shooting using the Lee-Enfield .303 that no one wanted to shoot (lack of ear muffs led to poor hearing in my right ear) -- took that up like a fanatic, went all the way: All India Inter-University. SUCH a huge huge obsession. Worshipped Jack O'Connor, Shooting Editor of OUTDOOR LIFE.
Fishing: I was the ultimate fishing fanatic. Had a Dad who was about the same. Since the rivers were full of big, fighting gamefish, looked askance at anything below 10 pounds in weight.
Photography: Got a Kodak Baby Brownie at age 5, as a consolation gift for having my tonsils removed. Wasn't too hooked then but used it for many years till the bakelite body gave way.
Really erupted into a major disease when, in 1976, my old friend Thomas Abraham drove down from Kuwait to India, bringing with him a Minolta XE-1 with a 58 mm f.1.2 lens and a 200mm f.4.5 tele Rokkor. Went plumb loco after that. A succession of Minoltas followed, including the XD 11 with a 100 - 500mm zoom Rokkor. Shot mostly wildlife (Kodachrome 64, Ektachrome 400); Family - Kodacolor, of course.
A couple of photos published in Nikon World and Minolta Mirror didn't help the malady one bit. Made worse by a prize in an open-to-all Photo Competition floated by the Govt. of India; subject: "Children of India". By that time I'd been through an F2AS Photomic, Nikkormat FT2, FT3, Nikon EL2, and finally the FE / MD12 motor drive, bagful of Nikon glass :-)
Then == blooooey ! 25 years no shooting=family, job etc.
2011: Full blown relapse of Nikonitis, still suffering...
Hobbies? Mostly obsessions ! Not mentioning, mere ... (
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Wow! I am surprised you found time to work with everything else you had going on. Congratulations on publishing. Glad you found time to pick up the camera again. Love your pics.