G'day. I've just joined "the group" and asked Emma if it would be OK if I introduced myself. I know both Emma and Kalista from Church.
So, a little bit about myself - I have a 9 year old daughter - Jayde. Earlier in the year she took a digital photography course for kids and really enjoyed it. We'd given her our old digital "point and shoot" camera recently when we bought a new one. I was mentioning to my boss at work that I needed to get a "proper" camera so that I could teach Jayde more about photography - he offered to give us his old Canon 400D. It has a lot of marking on the sensor, and won't work on some of aperture settings, but is otherwise OK. So, over the last 3 months I've been teaching myself how to try and use a proper camera, and occasionally letting Jayde use it too. Have an older copy of Photoshop and have started getting more familiar with that as well. I haven't really settled into any particular style of photo yet, although I tend to avoid photographing people if I can help it.
I've started putting some of my photos up onto Deviant Art at
http:\\aeast.deviantart.com to try and get some feedback. These are my three most popular photos on DeviantArt so far:
I'm looking forward to joining in with the photo challenges. Kalista - thanks for the suggestion. Emma - thanks for letting me join :)
