early Christmas present

My passion for photography has grown stronger in the last couple of years that I had been contemplating the idea of going back to school to be a photographer.

And since it has been MONTHS since I'd actually gone shopping, I treated myself to an early Christmas present...



Ta daaa! A Nikon D50. It's a humble start, but the last time I took a photography course was back in 1996. I was 17, in my second year of college and using a 35 mm SLR. This one's a digital SLR and fairly easy to use. I'm hoping it will allow me to refamiliarize myself with single lens reflex cameras and master aperture, shutter speed, exposure and all that fun stuff.

Like any child who gets that one gift that made him try to stay good for all year (or lie about it -- that's what I did), I HAD to open my present take photos as soon as I had the batteries fully charged.

Here are my first shots ever: