Mr. Savyasanchi Tripathi

I belong to a very modest background. By profession, I am a civil engineer and beside profession, I am a poet, desperate photographer, Bird watcher, writer, a teacher, a tennis player and more importantly "a learner". I love to learn and master new hobbies. I learn for excellence not for competition of any kind.

I am a big fan of nature and love to spend time in forests with nature. Interestingly, my inclination towards nature introduced me with many hobbies. One day I was on morning walk in a very beautiful forest “Sanjay van” in New Delhi, where I met with an old retired general. In 15 minutes of co-walking, he suddenly observed some movement in the shrub. He showed me a small “water-hen” protecting her eggs on the reed-bed in the lake. He taught me the features of that water hen. Due to my curiosity, I asked him about other birds displayed on the bird display board installed in the Forest and asked him where these birds are found in the forest since I never spotted any one of them. A teacher in that old man drove him to teach and show me other birds as far as possible to be spotted at that time. This was my first birding day and it draws a mammoth of interest in the world of birds, the hidden treasure of forest. From next day onward, I bring my camera on morning walk and my curious eyes started searching for these hidden treasures. That moment was revolution of my life and it suddenly introduced two spices simultaneously in the life “Birding” and “Photography”. Birds pose challenges before me when I photograph them and compelled me to read the photography books and use them on site. Gradually I diversified my photographic learning to landscape, night photography, street captures and many more and started ruling on my camera. In this entire journey I read thousand words to extract a hundred worthy words that directly deal with concepts, though a few books were outstandingly helpful to me. My most of the learning of photography is due to my practical experience of onsite photography.

The mastering on photography gave birth to a long pending Author in me. From a time before start of time itself, I aspired for writing a fiction wrapped with philosophy but the target got next date on every occasion, probably because I never attempted to enter into long writing profession (not counting a few poems I developed). But photography ushered me to this new world, or better to say that old retired general ushered me in the world of Writing. Sorry, it was Sanjay van which put me on the track of writing. Anyways, this is how my hobbies are knitted together.