Hi, I'm Yolanda. I've never had any formal training in photography although I took a lot of visual arts classes in my youth. I always had an eye for color and composition. I use that to my advantage in house painting which I do professionally every few months. Mostly I do housework which suits me fine. It leaves me lots of time for creative hobbies.
I had a Zeiss Ikon camera as a kid, from my dad. When it was stolen I went without till the day I had enough money to buy my pentax K1000. I was thrilled to have an SLR because I enjoyed macro shots and now I could frame them right and get much closer to my subject. The cost of film and processing kept me from advancing much. My first Digital camera was a really cheap 1.3 mp with no settings. Point it and click. it did take silent video too, which was fun. the max resolution on that was 240x320
Then I got a slightly better one that had a couple options for resolution, 3mp and a microphone for video.
Later I got a camera that had a variety of automatic choices and some stupid things like picture frames and sepia and color tone. Whoo.... It had optical zoom that was a bit fun. I shot a lot but it wasn't that inspiring.
Last christmas I finally got a DSLR. YAY! I'd been hoping someone would make a body back that converted my k1000 to DSLR but the solution was a new body with the old lens. Naturally new lenses came fast behind it. I've got 3 so far, the original K1000 50mm f2-f22 lens, a 70-300 zoom/macro sigma lens that's fully automatic if I want, and a gorgeous, sweet, wonderful, incredible (and many other admiring adjectives) toy called a "lensbaby."
I love my lensbaby so much.
www.lensbaby.com to find out about it! Mine is the 3G (aka control freak) although I'd rather have gotten the Muse if my local store carried it for Pentax. Naturally I now have my eyes on the wide angle adapter.
Finally, at age 45 I can chase my photographic creativity down whatever byways it takes me. I signed up for this school so I could understand better the tools I now have. I live in Saskatoon, SK where it stays winter long after the rest of you are running barefoot in the spring grass :-)
Forgot to add my photostream:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23814269@N06/