Recently, everybody around me has been getting excited about photography. Maybe its a shift in technological advances which have made cameras, or more specifically, digital SLRs more accessible to the general layman or amatuer photographer. Its seems almost everyone is into or has been into at one point, photography. Be it in the form of old 35mm SLRs, the more avant-garde 'lomo' trend or the more recent digital SLRs.

During my archi days I used to lug around my pop's old manual Canon SLR form the seventies. It had two lenses. A standard fixed 55mm lens and a 150mm telephoto/macro lens. It weighed a ton. But I managed to drag that thing (with a tripod) around Italy, Switzerland, the US, France, The Netherlands, Japan and other countries. I also used it to take more abstract/sexy shots of architectural models with all kinds of lighting, long exposures, model scopes etc...

So, after being inspired by some of my friend's excellent photos and the fact that nearly everyone around me had already purchased a digital SLR, I decided the take the plunge. I got myself a great deal on a Nikon D40, which has come highly recommended. Lets hope my renewed interest actually produces some worthwhile results and doesn't dissolve into another short-lived and ill-conceived fad. Watch this space for potentially useless photos of my own feet, the sky, my bike, my mum etc etc...