No we didn’t go for the India Tour! But have explored one of the most beautiful historical heritages of India- The Qutub Minar.
In the early morning (4am) I was listening ‘Sur Mille Mera Tumhara’ on A.I.R FM Rainbow. Later on @6am, I realized the true meaning of the song. It’s only in India where u can find unique historical monuments with a logical reason of building it, hence proved at Qutub!
Talking about the members, we are happy to have DFC with us to teach various abilities/disabilities in terms of Photography & gadgets. Jasbir Boora, Poornika Rishi, Yogesh Parashar, Sanjay Batra, Lovelish Arora, Debashish Sengupta, Ankush Maria, Anupam Chatterjee, Arindam Deb, Tirtho Biswas, along with Shagun Jasuja, Hakikat Boora, Vinay Mediratta (the new member of whom I’ll discuss later on) & (me) Harpreet Rishi (Thanks to my god gifted memory which helped me in remembering the names!).
Weather was not pleasant for the Monument shot as it was dull, a bit foggy on top & humid on down! But still we got some awesome shots (No matter it was of the Qutub Complex, Bird Parrot or the portrait session by Ankush Maria!)
We were not able to explore the whole Qutub Complex (due to the lack of time) but we shot the Imam Zamin’s tomb, Ala’I Darwaza (A.D.1311), Khalji’s tomb, khalji’s Madrasa, Tomb of Iltutmish and Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque.
Ankush Maria, Young talented knowledgeable handsome photographer working with India Today Group as staff Photographer and the admin of DFC was the first who thought to have a portrait session using Shagun Jasuja & Jasbir Boora (admin of FFC) as the models with Anupam Chatterjee, who was helping him there, and was Joyful, smart, creative and knowledgeable Photographer (he looks like Canadian NRI, don't know y!)
Debashish Sengupta, for those who want to know about cameras, gadgets and Delhi must contact him! Due to him I got to know which camera suits me and from where to buy cheap cameras with high quality!
Arindam Deb & Tirtho Biswas, The real surprise packages for me! The only ‘angry young man’ types serious & decent bengolies and now my best buddies! Arindam who was/is a phenomenal photographer, for him I would say ‘Great packages comes in thin-long packets!’ (Think positively Dirty Minds!). Tirtho, the guitarist, painter, designer… in short The Artist for me! (Wishing for the growth of Ur long hairs Tirtho!)… They are the only ones for whom I said (while chatting) “U laugh also!!!”… Now after having them, I’m sure I’ll enjoy the PWs professionally as well as personally too…
Vinay Mediratta, the telecom employee (ambani’s relative, hehehe… just kidding!) was the New member of DFC/FFC, and was kind of shy guy (don't know Y!) Happy to have u sir!
Sanjay Batra & lovelish Arora, DFC members, honorable, knowledgeable… While I didn’t interact with them, may be coz they seems to be the senior photographers…
Hakaikat Boora & Shagun Jasuja was the non-photographer but their presence was valuable. I would thanks Mr.Yogesh Parashar, the only senior photographer, and the bird watcher, strict for his timing, well disciplined and very knowledgeable in terms of birding. He was the one who helped us to reach the venue by giving us (Poornika & me) lift, thanks sir!
This PW was very special for me, not coz of my fvrt venue and not only coz I got my best buddies there! But of course coz First time in the PW I clicked some shots by myself! (Yuppie!) Our PW ends at 9:30am but coz some of us were really hungry (including me, hehe), so we went to Mcdonald’s of Saket. Had some American breakfast (haha...) with a cup full of valuable knowledge by Ankush Sir… And then finally we proceed to our shelters at 10:30am.
We shouldn’t forget to thanks Poornika for recommending the Qutub as our venue. And Congrats FFC for the first ever Monument Photo-walk!
Regards-
Harpreet Rishi
“Today I realized the exact meaning of PhotoWalk. It doesn’t require a specific prop, what it requires is a creative mind (which common in FFC).
We chose Badkhal Lake (fbd) as the shooting venue coz it is the real heritage of Faridabad and as we explained earlier our aim is to present the Faridabad in new avatar. And here we got to prove our aim!
We started our PhotoWalk with 7 members- Jasbir Boora, Jazzi Oberio, Poornika Rishi, Navneet kaur,Yasho Bhushan, Somanshu Kalra & (me) Harpreet Rishi .
First we warmed up our photonic spirits by clicking some animal’s photos (horse & camel were our model).
We moved on to explore the city’s heritage without knowing the result.
As we were walking, as usual what photowalk requires, our experts clicked photos from non-photogenic areas. Then we found a temple – Persona Mandir
It was like a real exciting trip from Badkhal Lake to that temple as we had to cross the undeveloped area which having a warning board in the starting saying “Tourists sholed not go beyond this point & beware of unsocial elements” (focus on the word ‘sholed’ (should), the govt. which can’t write a warning board correctly are appointed to save us!).
As we proceed we had an encounter with a man looking creature (Hariyana Police Constable) that was trying his level hard to scare us, but I guess our fully gadget proof photographers scared him more. Soon we left that lost minded constable back n proceed for our destination.
As we reached there, what we found was the Heaven on Earth (from the point of view of a photographer) with Temples, Rock Mountains, Monkeys, Peacocks, Dogs, Trees, pond, etc… etc… etc...
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We clicked some more awesome shots, which makes our photographers more enthusiastic to know what is next?
We found Saints, shot them with our guns (camera!). Then go down to earth to explore the beauty more ‘n’ more.
We then proceed back to Badkhal but by walking on the dried lake.
Then someone recall, “Oops we forget the group photo!”
So here we are with our Photowalkers of FFC.
It’s been a really great experience of exploring the city & learning new things in addition.
I met some wonderful human beings, had enjoyed every single step & specially after having a tiring evening I’m more excited about tomorrow morning’s photowalk.
All the best to FFC!
May this Photowalk reach to the top & become a lifetime journey.”
--"Harpreet Rishi"
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