I love looking at your pictures of your Rosie and now Kenji. You take such beautiful pictures of your birds and I have always enjoyed them. Thank you for sharing your talent with us.
It would not surprise me if you do become a well known photographer. You have the talent and drive for it so I am going to be looking forward to your famous works down the road. At one time I also wanted to be a photograher/photojournalist and wanted to work for Natural Geographic. Life took a way different turn and I ended up in netowork and computers.
My first high end camera was a Nikon from the early 80's. It was one of the first camera's with a computer chip in it automating some features. I love this camera and still have it. I used it quite heavily while I was in the Navy and when I was traveling all over.
In 2005 we got a Kodak EasyShare DX6490. Although I feel limited with it compared to my old SLR Nikon because it is not one of those high quality digital cameras that cost thousands (yes I want one and want to find the best for the money but have not done to research cuz then would just pine for what ever I learn is a good DLR camera) it gets the job done but I feel I can't do very much with this camera.
Someday I would LOVE to get a nice DLR camera and go nuts. I am curious to know more about them wearing out. Yea, I understand a traditional SLR parts wearing out and getting them fixed but I would like to know more about DLR miladies. What are their downsides. My 1980's camera is still in perfect working order. I kept my fathers version of my camera which he used in the field (Father was a civil Engineer who designed and inspected bridges for the state and used his Nikon in the field so his camera had a lot of dust which I had professionally cleaned. This camera, even with the film advancing quirk still works really well) and even after all this time experience no problems with this camera.