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Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. ~ Doris Mortman
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Hi

I have always been interested in photography but didn't take it up until recently (1 Aug 2009 to be precise) when I bought my very first system camera - the Olympus EP1. Interestingly, Flickr listed it as a point and shoot. I got the 14-42mm kit lens with the EP1 and purchased the Zuiko Digital ED 40-150mm not long after. Would love to have a wide angle and macro lens next.

One of the reasons that made me decide to move beyond a P&S was a concisely and effectively written, ten-part series by John Tan published in Digital Life (a weekly supplement of the main local newspaper The Straits Time) on how to take good photographs. The first article dated July 15 was aptly named "Go beyond aim and shoot". It explained how camera exposure settings can produce creative effects. I was hooked.

Beside that series, I learnt from books written by the acclaimed Scott Kelby and Bryan Peterson and from the net (leant manual focus from Youtube!). There is a Confucius saying "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand". That, to me, applies to photography as well.

Cheers!
~scribbled on Nov 2009
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