' My First
Encounter with The Magic Wand (Camera)'
Hello there!
Frankly speaking, I have
never been into the stuff like writing blogs but as they say "there will always
be the first attempt for everything". So, here I am to share my story on
how I entered this fascinating world of photography?
Well, my story is not different
from what they portray in movies like those small towns, unknown people, small
families. Let me guess you must have supposed that its story of a middle-class
boy with petty worries and full of strange thoughts in mind. Being a kid from
the late '90s, I never came across the magical device that many haven't dreamed
about it, never thought that it would change the world completely.
I hope you people started
thinking about it.
Yes, you figured the
right thing. I am talking about 'cell phones' the real game-changer. I speculate
some might laugh after listening that cell phones would change the world and be
a part of human life. No matter when you hear it, but listening to it for the
first time, you would have laughed out loudly telling this would be the
best-predicted joke of the century.
Coming to my life I
neither seen a cell phone nor a cell phone with a camera until the day on which
my dad received a flip phone with a camera from Dubai as a gift from my dad's
friend. I have never seen any device like that in my life, I was completely
attracted to that miniature device and the only thing that came to my mind was
a very evil idea - "let's check that thing, my friend". But do you
think you will walk up to your father and ask him, to give his magic wand (cell
phone)?
And he would give it to
you and tell not to break it or don’t do any mischievous things with it. Then
my friend you must be daydreaming because that will never happen in reality. You
get to hear the routine dialogue that every Indian dad says - Abhi tum Bache ho
tum phone ka kya karoge (you are just a kid what will you do with the phone). After
this failed attempt, I tried doing in another way "a heist". You
heard it right! I went into my father's room and took out the phone from his
pocket without making any noise, then I understood what exactly a pin drop
silence means. My hands were trembling and I felt like I am a robber at
someone's house and even worried that someone could wake up anytime and I am busted!
But I never thought that something was waiting to surprise me that day.
Finally, I got the phone into my hands and am
very excited to handle it. At first, I pressed the home button on the phone
that gave me joy as if I have achieved something that day. While I am randomly pressing
buttons, I clicked on the camera option and that was my first encounter with
the world of camera. It blew my mind away and I was shocked how could this
thing in my hand can attest, that I can see with my naked eye.
When I started exploring
that world, unfortunately, my dad woke up and I dropped that phone right there
and didn't enter that room for 2 days. Days passed on.. and something shocking
had happened to me while watching television. An advertisement promoting the
same phone as my father's, explaining the features of it. Then I came to know, the
thing that surprised me was called 'camera' and it is used to capture pictures.
After a few weeks, my mother said we need to have pictures of you and your brother which would remain as a childhood memory. Thereafter we were made to get dressed in the best clothes and well-groomed. I was wondering where were we being taken and I keep on guessing the place..!
To be continued...😇
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