pixetra - The latest pixetra club events

Pixetra Club in Hyderabad is barely 30 days old but already we've received requests to conduct the Basics of Photography classes and guess what, the first weekend in May saw the first club event in the Deccan, our first Foto-Guru in Hyderabad! The classes were conducted at Lounge Habits in Secunderabad's Sindhi Colony area - very trendy and really cool facility that fit our needs like custom made!

The class unanimously opted to go to Golconda Fort for a practical outdoor shoot session and for good measure we covered the Qutub Shahi Tombs area and the tank bund on the Osman Sagar Lake.

Foto-Guru is becoming ever so popular in all cities. We usually meet for classes in our showroom but with growing number of attendees, the backrooms in our stores are becoming crowded! In the last week of April we had to rent a hall in Abad Hotel in Kochi to accommodate the class strength!

We tried to break away from the customary outing destination to Mattancherry and this time went to Vypeen - after a grilling early morning outdoor photography session however, the class jumped into a ferry and crossed over to Fort Kochi to cover our traditional grounds at Fort Kochi, nevertheless.

On April 19th, PIXETRA'S recently opened store in Hyderabad had a surprise VVIP visitor!
Mr. Kensaku Konishi, President & CEO of CANON INDIA accompanied by Mr. Alok Bharadwaj, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, and other management level staff were in Hyderabad and decided to check us out! Pixetra's Store Manager Wilson P.V. spent a long time showing off the many unique features of the newly opened showroom to the VIPs. Mr. Konishi's was very impressed and was very kind to pass on several tips to our customer service staff.

Pixetra's 6th store inaugurated in Hyderabad on 7th April 2008!
Tradelinks Ventures Pvt. Ltd. Group Chairman, Mr. K.N. Suryanarayanan, cut the ribbon and afterwards, he and our Managing Director, Srikanth, lit lamps to mark the inauguration of the newest pixetra store in Hyderabad. Located in The Ashoka Metropolitan Mall in Banjara Hills, an upscale area of Hyderabad, the showroom marks the group's entry into Hyderabad. Besides the full range of cameras, camcorders, binoculars, telescopes and accessories, the store is also preparing to install a cutting edge digital printing facility with an HP Microlab, customer-friendly ordering kiosks and high-quality large format printers. More good news and full details in a few days!

Pixetra Club: Workshop in the Outdoors
Kochi Pixetra Club members went off on the 1st weekend in April to Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary and ended up having loads of fun. Despite hot weather and harsh overhead light conditions, the gang managed an interesting collection of images. Highpoints on the trip were the trek into the bird sanctuary with a guide(on record as sighted: cormorant/ snake bird/ egret/ waterfowl, cuckoo, water duck), boating on the backwaters with home-style lunch, and stopping at an island to take in the sandy beaches - it's a wonder that participants had energy leftover to return to the Pixetra Kadavanthara store to sit thru a grilling review session with Pixetra's own photography teacher, Sethuraman! Here are LINKS TO some of the photos from the outing online:

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