Ravi Hongal has been behind the lens for three decades now,since the mid 1980s. He runs a small studio in Belagavi with his wife Krupa, shooting weddings, festivals and the odd bird in the wild.Engineers he approached said the design would be tough, maybe even impossible to pull off cleanly. He didn't listen much, and it took him close to two and a half years to get the shape right, floor by floor. The first floor looks like an Epson printer. Windows on the second floor are cut in the shape of a Nikon lens. And the third floor bedroom window mimics a Canon flash, right down to the curve. He named the whole house "Click," which feels about right. Inside, the walls and ceilings keep the photography theme going, not just the front of the building. Krupa calls it their shared dream, something the couple talked about for years before a single brick went up.
The house cost about seventy one lakh rupees, money the couple didn't just have sitting around, so they sold their old home and borrowed the rest from family. Canon, the eldest son, said friends used to ask if his name was some kind of joke, and he'd tell them no, it's his dad's thirty years of chasing photographs written right into him. Honestly, naming your kids after camera brands sounds a bit much until you stand outside that house and watch how proud the whole family looks. There's even a button built into the terrace wall, the kind you'd press to click a picture.
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