And so you progress.

When you realise you really enjoy it, you start trying to be more creative. You learn how light works, aperture, depth of field. You start to see that colours in focus not only look amazing but colours out of focus can really but a gorgeous frame around something you want people to look at.

So you experiment. For me, I take my camera to work everyday, with 2 lenses. At lunch time I walk around the grounds and take photos of things. With today's SD cards you can take 500 photos then just dump them onto any one of your enormous hard disks.

On this particular day, I'd just recieved my new lens. It's not special by photography standards, but it's special to me. It's a Tamron 70-300mm.