There is always a college junior who is close to you. With whom you might have spent days chatting, talking, teasing, playing, travelling & living. Also every college department has that one guy who makes all the posters, click photographs & edit videos. I was that one guy in my batch, and I found an another guy who is a replica of me in my juniors - Naveen.
Naveen showed me what one can do with pure passion and knowledge over a subject. Both of us used to click pictures for events, learnt photoshop from each other, edited videos and spent days together talking about life and dreams. We used to borrow DSLR from our batchmates, friends, seniors for our shoots. Indeed I became better at clicking pictures, editing images working alongside with Naveen.
When both of were living together in Germany again after my college graduation, he said he is going to buy a camera to pursue photography again. Born and raised in middle-class families, what would we dream of ? I immediately dreamt of the cameras I have handled which I borrowed from my friends. In fact he used the same as well. I told him to buy DSLR 70D or something (which costed around 40-50k).
He immediately said, “I have used all of them, that’s what we have been using to click all this while. I want something new to explore more on. I’m planning to buy Sony Alpha 7 (which was the latest one in the market and costed more than a lakh).“ I immediately snapped, “Why to spend so much when we weren’t still earning full-time”. He said he can manage the EMIs for the camera very confidently.
Ever since then I have never settled for anything less to live my dream. Also Naveen is not just a curious one who have no knowledge on photography. The interesting part is, he is a self-taught photographer and learns so much about it every single day.
He was very much needed in my life to help me come out of scarcity mindset and move to abundance mindset. Im sure you would fall in love with Naveen’s perspectives & pictures as I do always.
Aaho !
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