Events

Group Photo.. image used with permission. Please do not copy. (c) PCK/WMZ

Sunday’s can  be boring and at times they can be most memorable days, and this Sunday (3rd-May-2009) was one of the exceptional and memorable Sunday of my life. PCK (Photo Club of Karachi) a flickR group which i’m proud to be member had been hassling with the photography-meet for more than 3 weeks on which location to finalize.. although the trip was initially finalized with destination “Badin” but last moment changes popped in and we swifted to Sehwan Sharif.. a little bit about Sehwan Sharif

From Wikipedia

Sehwan Sharif is located in Jamshoro District of Sindh, Pakistan.

The city is known for its Muslim patron saint Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar who lived here in 13th century CE. The mausoleum of Hazrat Shahbaz Qalandar attracts hundred of thousands of faithful every year.

Members who attended the trip

1. WMZ
2. GeniusDevil (jag)
3. Mohsin
4. Ali
5. Wajiha (BlueDreams)
6. Shaheryar Lakhani
7. Hina Haqani
8. Ashara Dana
9. Nisa
10. Fahim
11. Amin
12. Ghouri
13. Aon Ali
14. Sumair
15. Ittiqa Abbas
16. Zaghaim
17. Asad
18. Farock
19. Junaid (Danish)

Details about our trip..

5:00am
My journey began at 5am (that’s when I woke up) packed all my gears early morning, it was really dark outside and all sorts of doubts were running over my mind since it was my first time with PCK (officially ) and almost all of them were unknown faces to me and was wondering how will the day end up..

6.30am
I was assigned to pickup Fahim since he lives nearby to my place and meet WMZ in Garden Jamat Khana, I called Fahim and there was little confusion as he was told by someone which i’ll not name .. that 6.45am was the pickup time, and I reconfirmed by calling WMZ again but he mentioned that “NO” and 6.30am was the right time.. so I rushed and reached Fahim’s locations in 10 minutes (very close eh?)

6:55am
Next I had to pickup Amin (amoo) who also lives not so nearby, picked him him and moved towards our meet point which was conveyed to me by WMZ that Five Star chowrangi in N.North Nazimabad somewhere which was unknown to me so thanks Amin for guiding us to the correct location.

7.20am (approx)
I met WMZ and rest of the group.. we shook hands introduced ourselves I bet most of them who were meeting first time would have forgetting everyone’s names the next moment itself only Anyhow afterwhich we (whole group) decided for break-fast which was normal routine  for every meet(I was new so I was’nt aware of most of the plan of action).

8:00am (approx)
We touched highway and were told (all people who were driving) that meet at Shell Pump before Hyderabad Toll Plaza.. It was approximate 2 hours drive from Karachi to Hyderabad.. and approx 2 hours drive from Hyderbad to Sehwan Sharif.

12:25pm
This is the time I took the first shot inside Sehwan Sharif.. so camera is telling me the exact time not approx

click - click - - click - - click - - click - - click - - click -(camera sound effect)

The people who were present were a bit surprised and excited seen us a group of photographers and most of them thought we were from some Newspaper, TV channel, or Media guys so it was easy for us to take any photo we wanted .. having Big lens in hand is really an advantage at times lol! Thereonwards everybody split in groups, individuals and did their own thing… basically speaking it was like on-your-own. You can sit and drool there or move your ass and start shooting choice was yours!

1:50pm
This is time again from camera at Sehwan Sharif.. it was the last shot from my Canon 40D taken at Sehwan Sharif…

We started travelling back to Karachi.. the road was a bit damanged so it took us longer to reach back as compared to reaching Sehwan. We did stop at a mini-restaurant for refreshment (only tea) if you ask me.. and at that mini-restaurant we took this group photo-shot above.

8.30pm
I reached home.. don’t ask me what the hell happened on the way back that it took soo long, well in short.. road condition was not very good, traffic was single lane, too many trucks, over-taking, braking, slow-downs, etc.. and then back to Karachi traffic .. drop off members to their locations.. and come back home!

— end of story –

I am sure everyone enjoyed a lot though there are always exception… not sure in this trip who were/are the exceptions.

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