Mahesh’s World

It was one of the new year resolutions to take the next step towards my passion for photography. And I made the right choice of joining basic digital photography course at Ambitions. The day 1 - March 13th, the introductory speech given by Sir(raja ponsing) made us think, “oh, so many things….am I too less for this course?”. But the heaviness was wiped out once we started the introductions of the participants and we were from class eleven students to retired officers. Just an hour after, we had our first tea break and after that, it was always - 41st batch ambitions basic photography! We made friends with each other within few days and were sharing many lighter moments during tea breaks, class hours(getting scolding from sir), after class hours and especially during outings!

The very first friends whom I gained there were Abhay, Mr.Nagarajan, Mr.Prasad, Balaji, Mr.Sivarkumar and Ramakrishnan. It was a great move from Mr.Prasad to lend us with brilliant world movies collection. I got the chance to see some really good movies. Nagarajan and his uncle have helped me a lot for the outings and the technical aspects in the absense of sir. I got in touch with Doctor Sundar (Well known for his flag pole pose!) to enquire about organ donation. So, it was a week or so and we formed a really good group. I got the chance to mingle with the “x-factor gang” of our batch headed by Bhargavi!

What a fun we had learning our passionate course. More than a class, it was a much different feel. Here are very good memories which are cherishable even after years:

> Bhargavi -The center of attraction in class, with her arrows of queries and experience (sometimes informative, sometimes arrrgghhh….) - the livewire

>Thavakkalai a.ka. Ganesh - The only person who gave me company with D40 and shout in middle of the class, “Sir, D40 la indha feature illa sir @?#$%”

>Doctor Sunder - Wow! He is one of the gems for our batch. Down to earth, awesome knowledge, Still remembers Focal length formula studies in physics class. And thanks doc for answering my queries on organ donation and blood donation.

> Thiru sir - Tea! Starting with his comments on the taste of tea in the break to his comments on the IPL matches, he has his own style of waving his hand with tea in his other hand - catchy!

> Sir’s Birthday - We will never forget the surprise celebration. Kudos to bargs and co who secretly devised it.

> My comment to one of the review photos - “Ennadhu indra gandhi sethutangala!!”. Dunno which timing it was, but made entire class laugh.

> Gopal - Saroja padam vaibhav. Ya he resembles him with slight modifications here and there. Started as a photographer and ended as a subject in the last outing!

> Jayaram - “Seeing it on a different perspective” nu ivaru arambicha podhum.. ada ada… manusan ennama yosanai pannuvaru theriyuma… Really… he is Live wire -2!

> Prasad sir - Expert knowledge in world movies. Has a great collection. Love the discussions about the shots he loved in the movies which he gives every week.

> Ramakrishnan - A person with passion integrated with family committments. Will surely reach great heights for his deep down interest and love towards the art. So kind and soft natured fellow.

> Archana lakshmanan iyer- Iyere..venam iyere venam iyere kinda gal. Modern, bold, breaking the cultural barriers, smoking, enthu planning of leh rock concert. Generally these kinda gals look so odd for me and i hate them completely coz i claimed myself to be the culture guard to TN u see!! Archana - Exception.. Reason - Really dunno!!

> Kalyan - The moving encyclopedia of ebooks and tutorials. Generous enough to share it with all of us even hours together after the class. And yeah, for discount on Indian terrain garments, contact him!

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To sum up, I have gained more good persons around me in addition to the photography inputs. Thanks Ambitions4!