I’m excited!

Summer Collage

Today’s the Day.

I’ve wanted to do this for a while now, play with my new camera, to learn, and get used to all the new stuff this one has to offer. And there’s a lot.

Being a hobbyist rather than a professional photographer, this is for pure joy and self-satisfaction. It’s my media, for self-expression. I was away from it for too many years but thankfully, about a year ago, I gained renewed interest and passion for something I truly enjoy.

I would really love to do this for a living. If I had a second round in life, being a professional photographer would be my dream job.

By no means do I think that I will know everything by the end of the day, but hope that I will make sufficient progress to make it fruitful. Just a couple of decent pictures, to make it worthwhile. Don’t want to get too greedy on my first day. But like anything new, it’s the anticipation.

Although Digital has taken away the anxious period of waiting to get prints back from the drug store, learning a new piece of equipment is always, for me anyway, a period of anxiety, no matter how short in duration. Getting used to something is one thing, predictability of the result, quite another.

But that’s what the process is all about, not just for photography, for all things new and different in life. Being an adventurer, deep down, however, I really look forward to that period of the unknown, when I’m not certain of the outcome. It gives me the drive to do my best and to continue, to learn all I can in the process.

All right, enough. The day’s a waistin’.

I’m excited, excited to be able to spend my day doing something I truly enjoy. The sun is shining, my gear is packed. I’ve scoured the manual from beginning to end. I downloaded the latest version of the driver, got myself connected to the manufacture’s site and set up Photoshop for direct import.

So now, I’m off to play.