The Magic Wand "E-1"

' My First Encounter with The Magic Wand (Camera)'

Hello there!

Frankly speaking, I have never been into 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, and small families. Let me guess, you must have supposed that it's the 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 have dreamed about, 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 you 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 it 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 was a robber at someone's house, and even worried that someone could wake up anytime and I would be 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, which gave me joy as if I had achieved something that day. While I was randomly pressing buttons, I clicked on the camera option, and that was my first encounter with the world of cameras. It blew my mind away, and I was shocked how this thing in my hand could 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 its features. 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 be well-groomed. I was wondering where we were being taken, and I kept on guessing the place..!

To be continued...😇