1-year anniversary

[Scottes]

So today is my 1-year anniversary of owning a camera. Yep, the 10D arrived a mere 12 months ago. 3 weeks from today will be my 1-year anniversary on this forum, too. And I just turned 40 about 3 weeks ago.

So what have I learned after 14,000 frames and 3,700 posts...?


The world is amazing. Even my little corner of it is just so full of things I've never seen before. OK, maybe I saw them, but never really saw them, you know?

Fresh air is also amazing. 17+ years of being a computer geek and *now* I find this stuff called "fresh air." It's good stuff. Try it sometime.

Birds are cool. (OK, so maybe that's an understatement for me...)

My wife is a good one. She let me spend a ridiculous amount of cash in the last year, lets me go almost every weekend and the occasional trip to Montreal, and rarely complains. Not too shabby.

This forum is pretty darn cool indeed.

I've learned that it may take me another few years to take a good landscape shot. :D

L is very expensive, but worth it.

L-coholism is *extremely* expensive, and I'm not so sure it's worth it.

L doesn't make you a better photographer, but it's cool to pretend.

I've met a lot of great friends in the last year.

A single good photo can make your day, but a day full of crappy ones still sucks. :wink:


Well I'm sure there's more, but I'm stuck in work on a Saturday and the coffee hasn't kicked in yet...

Anyway, Happy Anniversary To Me, and thanks for being there along the way.

[Belmondo]

Scott:
That's quite a lot to have accomplished in just a year. Congratulations on your good works, turning 40, and being able to stay married through it all.

You failed to mention that you're also among the most prolific of contributors to the forum...almost 3700 posts in your time here. That's a pace that will eventually put you ahead of everyone but CDS (Lightining Fingers) and Marie.

I know you've made some good friends through the forum, too. If your experience is anything like my own, that's a large part of what keeps you coming here on a daily basis.

Congratulations. Thank you. Keep it up.

Tom

[aam1234]

Hey! Congrats Scottes !!!!

It was a pleasure to meet you, you are such a great guy.

Just wish I can take bird photos quarter as good as yours, these creatures are driving me nuts :evil: (hmmm, maybe I should try nuts to lure them).

In any case, big congrats to you and your accomplishments. Best wishes.

[eastcoast909]

Yes, Congratulations and best wishes for many more to come ...

anniverseries,
pictures,
posts,
"L" lenses ......

I will leave it to you to put them in order! :twisted:

[Tiger1]

:D Scott :D

From what I have seen of your work, I would have sworn that you had been doing this for years. Congratulations on all of your accomplishments and keep up the outstanding photography :!: :D :!:

Gene

[Tiger1]

:D Scott,

I almost forgot to thank you for the tips, tricks and techniques that you keep posting as well as your photography :D :D

They are a great help to me and I'm sure many others who read them. Please keep it up.

Thanks again,

Gene :D

[Aylwin]

Congratulations, Scott! :) I can't believe you've been around here for "only" a year. Your contributions to these forums are part of what makes this site so great. It feels like you've been around for much much longer.

Well, here's to the next year... and the year after that... and...

[tommykjensen]

Thats an acheivement in just one year. I learned a lot from You Scott and enjoy seeing Your photographs and reading the stories that sometimes follow the photos. Thanks. :D

[JZaun]

Wow have you got a lot to live up to next year! : :lol: :lol: :lol:

JZ

[IanD]

How time flies when you are having fun. It has been a pleasure and great fun being able to spend time wih you and here is to many more GCPSs and time well spent. Thanks for the past help and for the future help. Congrats!

[PacAce]

Happy anniversary to both you and your 10D, Scott. I hope you remembered to take the 10D out to celebrate this momentous occassion. :D

[CyberDyneSystems]

Happy Anniversary!

8)

[Jon]

Happy Anniversary!

[timmyquest]

Happy anniversary :lol:

I'm about to reach mine (into the digital world) and if there is one thing i've learned, digital photos take up lots of space too!.

I had to uninstall a bunch of stuff today, i finally ran out of space on my PC.

20gigs of music 40gigs of songs, endless hours of games.

I'll be ordering another H/D tonight perhaps :?

[Scottes]

Well, thanks everyone, and again: thanks for being there during the year. This place has certainly helped make it an enjoyable year.

Alas, because of work, I did not get to take a picture today. And I am officially turning the 10D over to my wife - I hope she has a tenth as much fun with it as I did.

I'll be hitting the sack shortly, hopefully to get up at 3:30, out the door by 5:00, and somewhere in the mountains by sunrise. This will probably be my last day to shoot autumn colors this year, so be prepared for some more of my attempts at landscape photos.

Next year I'm taking October off.
I wish...

[Moppie]

Congrats on your anivesary!

Im posting this late on sunday evening, Im guessing about the time you are just taking your first photos sunday morning :)

I hope you have a good day, I look forward to seeing some more of your landscapes when I get up tomorrow morning, its a public holiday here so waking up to some autaum colours then looking outside at the bright flowers in the garden will go down very well with breakfast thank you :8

[Nana]

I am little late, but Happy Anniversary Scottes :!: :wink: :D

Like some said I also thought you have been photoing for much longer. It is always great to see your work and without you this forum wouldn't be the same. :wink: 8)

[ChrisN]

Cheers Scottes oO(Raises Glass)Oo
I hit the 1 year anniversary of my first ever picture earlier this week.

Wow has time ever flown by.

[LazyPhotographer]

Congratulations Scott! You done good in such a short time... you're work is really great and always getting better.

Great minds think alike... I got my camera a year ago too!

[c0ntr0lz]

congrats and happy anniversary!!!

I also just had my 1 year with a camera, a year ago on the 26th I bought the A80, and fell in love with photography. now for may and i'll have had my 310d for a year.

[roanjohn]

WOOHOOO!!!

Congrats Scottes!!!

Canonites unite!!! :D

Ro1

[Jesper]

Happy anniversary! :D

My 10D will be a year old on 8 November. Since that date, I've bought:

- Lenses: EF 17-40 f/4L USM, EF 70-300 f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM, EF 50 f/1.8 II, EF 100 f/2.8 Macro USM + hood
- SanDisk Extreme 512 MB CF card
- Software: Photoshop CS (upgraded from PS Elements 2.0 with a special offer), Capture One LE, Neat Image Pro+
- Wacom Grahire 3 drawing tablet
- Manfrotto 055 DB tripod + 141 RC head (just sold it last week and waiting for a new 055 PRO B + 486 RC2 ball head)
- Crumpler bag (Next Venue (http://www.crumplerusa.com/products/camerabag/next_venue.html))

I'm not going to calculate what this hobby has cost me in the past year ..... :roll: ;)

[Scottes]

I'm not going to calculate what this hobby has cost me in the past year ..... :roll: ;)

Since I recently went through all my receipts for insurance purposes I know my number by heart. :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

But it's been a fun year, that's for sure.
Expensive as hell, but fun.

[JMAS]

:shock: I'm amazed that you are in this for only one year.

Congrats! :wink:

Jaime

[Big_B]

Congratulateions scottes. I hope I've acheived as much when I get to my first anniversary.... :D

[cmM]

hey scott, Happy birthday/anniversary... etc! Up until 40 you grow up, after that, you grow old! lol j/k my friend, you can be 60 and still be young.

[Belmondo]

j/k my friend, you can be 60 and still be young.

Yeah, but can you be 61, or (god forbid) 62?

[Scottes]

Years ago my wife used to say that I was 36 going on 6.

Now she says I'm 40 going on 6.

Works for me.
:D

[Belmondo]

Scott:
It doesn't sound like you're making a lot of progress. It sounds vaguely familiar, though. Are our wives related?

[Scottes]

Though aging is progress it's eventually so detrimental that I'd rather regress.

Staying even is even better.

[nosquare2003]

Scottes, I can feel your "fresh air" in your posts and in your photos.