some of my first pics....

I like to look back at some of the first pictures I took to see how i've grown in just a few months. I was amazed at how much learning there is to do with photography...my dslr is a lot more complicated than the lil old point & shoot I was used to, but oh I love it soooooo much more! I'm afraid I've gotten myself into something that can be highly expensive & addictive ....






you can tell by looking at these that I hadn't quite figured out all of the settings and what they meant... I forced myself from the beginning to shoot in manual mode so that I didn't become lazy and depend on automatic so there were quite a few pictures that were WAY off (underexposed, grainy, etc)....Manual is fun once you get the hang of it but in the beginning there were times when i wanted to scream....