My full time job as a Technical Writer always have people asking me what exactly is my job all about. For the first 1000 times I was happy to explain the fanciness of my job but after that it was turning out to be a task to explain it. After that when people ask me what is the job all about I just send them this link and they pretty much stop there.

Now that I have a parallel career as a (wedding) photographer I get asked how did this happen to me. Since the story is an unique one I don’t think I have a link to give to people. Please don’t misunderstand that I am sick of the story. In fact I am really proud of it and am always game to dish it out.

I would love to say that photography has been my passion since childhood (and in a way it was) but then it always was (is) an expensive hobby and I wasn’t born with a silver spoon or any spoon at all. As any regular gadget crazy gal I too likes to a couple of good pictures and always wanted a better camera than what I had. I always thought my limitations of taking a good picture was because I dint have a better camera. (Let me tell you that was crap).

Anyways in 2007 I went and got my heart broken. The entire episode got me into a weird zone; emotional wreck, with a mediocre job that was going now where, with no social life, living a unhealthy obese life. For a whole year and a bit more I cried over it and blamed everyone else but me for all the wrong things that was happening. Frankly speaking looking back now, I think it wasn’t that bad. All this while I used to drool at the pictures people uploaded in flickr and also their awesome DSLR cameras which I could never afford one. Sick of crying and complaining I welcomed an angel in disguise of a dog and decided to purchase a DSLR. The best 2 decisions of my life and the best 30000 /- INR I ever spent in my life so far.

I would love to say that I instatnly started creating stunning pictures and people started paying me to shoot. Naaah! I bought the camera and took it out for a spin or two and then it went back into the awesome camera bag and sat there for the next couple of months. Yes 30000/- hard earned rupees down the drain. Until one day I decided that I have to at least learn to use it thus I might justify my stupid splurge.  For the next few months I shot everything mostly people and street and boy I shot extensively and learned a lot of the stuff. Then a friend happened to ask me to come and shoot a wedding with him and in that wedding I fell head over heals in love, this time not with a guy but with photographing people and wedding ceremonies. I started shooting more weddings (for free)  and people started noticing my passion in each of the frames and that’s how I became a wedding photographer.

My love for this has come to a point where I miss shooting weddings if I don’t do it at least once a month. My love for this art has me think of my health (yes u need to be fit to shoot better, here I gave out on of the secrets of good photographs) even though I hate it I eat one healthy meal a day (at least) watch my carb intake and lately I go and bust my butt in a gym a couple of days in a week. My love for the art makes me sit in front of the computer after a hard day at work (yes the full time job I was talking about) as late as 2 am editing photos and designing albums.  My love for this art has had me invest a good fortune of my savings and a bit more in it.

Yes I had a broken heart some years ago but am in Love again; this time with an art called wedding photography. This is my story. My name Deepa Netto and I am wedding photographer based out of Mumbai.

Since no post is complete without a picture (after all this is photography website), here is a picture of me and my angel aka Mandy.

Photo credits : Anil F