Beginning my journey....

   Ever since childhood I have enjoyed taking photos. The fact that I could simply press a button and at some point in the future, the roll of film would yield a permanent event record, always seemed to the young me to be a minor miracle. I am lucky to have dozens of albums recording family events, the growth of the children plus travels to distant lands. Are we the last generation to have a paper (analogue) record of our time on Earth? Apparently 6 billion+ 'pics' are taken each and every day. A small proportion are stored digitally and a minute fraction of those are actually printed. Maybe it is reasonable to assume that future generations will leave behind almost zero hard copies of their time on the planet. Point to ponder--anyway.
              It was my younger daughter who initially goaded me in 2011 into camera action. She progressed to a Canon T3i/aka 600D, finding this tool of sufficient horsepower to produce striking images for high school media projects. Ever an interested observer of the youth tech savvy generation, I nudged myself into DSLR action with this very same model---much of the time thoroughly confused by the variables and intricacies of the exposure triangle. Spent half a summer trying to capture images of bees in flight and drops of water splashing into the water barrel. Important stuff that any aspiring & keen hobbyist must master. Of course, parallel to learning about my camera also came the decisions regarding the most appropriate computer processing software.

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