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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lawrence" data-source="post: 397286" data-attributes="member: 16844">What a great thread and some interesting reasons for the incredible selections.My own journey was a confusion of many things; including the totally bewildering array of menus, settings and options of the DSLR, revisiting lighting, getting my head around (still a struggle) such high ISO when with film 400 was my max, learning composition, and then of course post processing, software, learning curves etc.I also did not know what genre I wanted to be in and still don't but do know that I enjoy portraits, awesome (read as 3 dimensional) landscapes, street photography and just seriously good photos.  Never thought I would enjoy macro but now think I might.In mid June I plucked up the courage to ask one of the lady members at our club to give me a lesson and she agreed.  I only wanted to learn how to take a good photo. In a way the lesson was a bit disappointing as she didn't say what to do or how but ....one of the first sets I took was of a guy who was re shoeing her horse and as I was taking photos she said to me "Stop making the mistakes everyone makes! Get down on the ground and take the shots from a different angle." Me getting down and up is not so easy with my arthritis but she told me to get over it. I did and I took several good shots.I had no idea how good they were until she processed them afterwards. Wow - that was when I realised processing was "everything" in terms of really making a photo pop and that side of the journey began that day.I've enjoyed the trip and I have enjoyed the company here.Now I look forward to continued growth in 2015.Here is my "best of 2014"[ATTACH]131285[/ATTACH]To me the eye is drawn into the action of this shot which is taking place within the smoke.I must have it printed.</blockquote>

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