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After the click,what’s next?

A PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB: It doesn’t matter where your last vacation was… to the beaches or the mountains; if those countless pixilated memories stay circulated only to, or shall we say restricted to Facebook, Instagram or even worse, a hard drive.

After the click,what’s next?

Whether you own a smart phone, a digi cam or a DSLR, chances are you come back several images richer



Manpriya Singh

It doesn’t matter where your last vacation was… to the beaches or the mountains; if those countless pixilated memories stay circulated only to, or shall we say restricted to Facebook, Instagram or even worse, a hard drive. A few more dinner table stories, yet another Facebook album evoking envy of friends rather than joy…unfortunately for most, it’s a dead end from here on.

Whether the destination evokes a photographer in you or the journey, this one’s to ensure that ridiculously good looking places deserve a little more than social media glory.

How about an exhibition?

Captured a tigress in action? While yawning, on the prowl, or one of those rare clicks where a pride of lions is playfully wrestling. It was the destination that evoked the photographer in Mitul Dikshit, director, Dikshant group of schools and an avid travel photographer. Post his trip to the world famous national reserve Maasai Mara in 2013, he put up his first solo exhibition at Punjab Kala Bhawan. Little knowing that it was to be a first in the series of many more to come, covering from The Great Barrier Reef to Antarctica.

His show Polar Expedition, a three-day exhibition held in 2015, took the viewers all through the Scandinavian countries. “My last one was on The Inca Ruins & The Amazon.” On the anvil is a coffee table book, scheduled to be during the last quarter of this year.

A photography club, association

Art promotion societies, movements, organizations galore. Wherever there is passion, there is a platform. Deep Bhatia, co-founder, mentor at TPAS (Tri-city Photo Art Society) elaborates on how one need not be a professional photographer to become a member, only an avid one. “There is a screening committee wherein we see the interests and forte of the prospective member. If your work stands apart and has potential, we ensure a ready platform to the members.” Which not just means monthly workshops, but getting to display best of your works in the annual exhibition held by the society each year on World Photography Day.

Network, but go niche

Tired of the self-appointed title of ‘best photographer’? Well, it’s time to submit your images to Microstock sites like Thinkstock, Istock, Stocksy…only a matter of dunking your head into the computer. If nothing else, how about networking through your images but strictly with like-minded people and strictly over travel. Picture Your Travel, a picture-based social travel app, aims at providing travel inspiration and trustworthy content posted by your trusted circle of family, friends and travel bloggers. The founder duo Nitin and Tanvi Trehan emphasise on the key word ‘trust’ when it comes to the app.

Shares Nitin Trehan, “Users can share their experiences with their network and inspire many more travel stories, while curating and saving their travel memories forever. They can thus post, picture and plan their travels.” “We conceived PYT when our research showed that there was no app which allowed users to follow a trusted network to find travel inspiration, plan and share their travel experiences,” chips in Tanvi Trehan on how despite the information overload on the net, for a user none of that information came from a trusted source.

Customize…

And no more just the clichéd options of mugs and tees. Get futuristic with tech wraps, iPhone cases, watch bands, Macbook sleeves and the like, imagine never having to second guess which charger, phone, tablet, portable speaker is yours. While at it, a desk calendar to remind all year round of beautiful landscapes sounds like a better option than a desktop calendar. Of course, there’s Facebook, Instagram and hard drive for your travel pictures but there are always ways to make them reach a little wider.

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