These fairer shutterbugs outsmart male counterparts!

Hyderabad: When the enthusiasts across the globe are celebrating World Photography Day on Monday, a day to remember the history of photography, a few women, who have picked up this craft, are aiming high every day and with every frame they shoot. It's a photography day every day for them!

A profession, which once considered a male bastion, has hosted many talented women who showcase their creative skills with much ease as they do with their regular chores.

A few of the women selected by The Hans India, who were pursuing regular careers or picked up photography straight away, have taken to photography as a serious career.

Be it a dentist or an IT professional or a student who wanted to be break away from the rat race, have chosen photography for it gives flexible options. More important is to work on their terms of time and remuneration. They are giving a tough fight in the market to their male counterparts.

"It (photography) might not be an old boys' network anymore, because the photo industry still pretty much thinks it's a bro network. I'm in this space where I feel very peaceful, comfortable, self-assured and it's something.

The default choice has always been a male photographer but there are so many really good women photographers all across our country," says Bhargavi Jakkala, who switched from IT to photography and now specialises in newborn photography.

Like in any other profession, gender bias is a challenge in photography. With the professional skills that these women have, they turned the tables in their advantage.

When out in the field, clients are very comfortable to host these professionals as their family members. The accessibility they have to the events is an edge over their male counterparts.

"Women photographers are easily let into the bride's rooms and more importantly, into their most private and personal space with their family, minutes before their wedding, when highly vulnerable, emotionally.

That is definitely a privilege to be thankful for," says Divya Medikonda, who chose to be a photographer right from her childhood and now specialises in wedding photography.

Like they creatively say that behind every successful woman there is a family, these photographers vouch for their family support. When these professionals are precariously trying to strike a balance, there is an immense support from their family and friends.

"I am blessed in that way. I guess it's more than me handling the family, they being very co-operative, makes things easier for me," says Radha Varanasi, who specialises in portraits and conceptual fashion, about the family support. Striking a balance one should learn from Dr Namrata Rupani.

"I am a dental surgeon with a multi-chair clinical practice. I'm also into fine art printing. My office space is a very interesting split in half - one side is the clinic and the other is shared between the photography and fine art printing," says Dr Namrata.

Beware band of brothers, women professionals are out there!