I recall having my first camera at 16 and taking it to a marriage function of my family where I promptly left it behind. A few years later and being much more responsible, I bought my first manual SLR. It was a Nikon D200. I haven't took any photography classes and I have started clicking with my own interest and thus beginning of my foray into "real" photography. photography was always a part of my life but never the centre. I have dabbled in many stages of life, periodically over the years but really revived my love of image making when I bought my first digital camera in 2001. I now have several types of cameras and have moved to a more serious approach to my work. My love of image-making and pushing the limits of the possible, has led me to exploring the world around me primarily with thoughts and views and then with my lensed cameras. "YOU CANNOT DEPEND ON YOUR EYES WHEN YOUR IMAGNATION IS OUT OF FOCUS" so guys always stay focussed and start clicking in your own way and never stop CLIC"KICKING". yours lovingly avinash