No matter how many other people's websites  I look at, I always find it very difficult to think what to put on my own About Me page - so here goes!

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I've always had an interest in photography, which comes from my dad, who always seemed to have a camera near him. His sister,  my auntie was also a really keen photographer and she and my uncle had their own dark room, so I was pretty much surrounded by it when I was growing up.

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My dad always shot with Canon, so he was surprised as I was, when my very first digital camera was a point and shoot Nikon.  I bought that in case I didn't take to it! 

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By 2008 I headed down my own Canon route and bought my first DSLR - a Canon 350D, with kit lens.  I loved it but tussled with what was what and realised I didn't really get this aperture, ISO and the like, so I was welded to the good old Green Auto square!  Enter Going Digital - and I didn't look back!

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After the first course things were really put into perspective for me and I felt like I actually knew what my camera was getting up to and from then, it really was a case of onwards and upwards - not at great speed, but steady and deliberate.

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I swapped my 350D for a 50D and then a 7D Mk 2 - I was a Canon user and was able to also buy L series lenses  although I did have a general go to lens, which was a  Sigma 18-250 - I loved that lens, but the L's beat it.

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Then in March 2021, I went mirrorless.  Not only mirrorless, but Canon-less as I opted for a full kit change to Olympus and so far it's been fantastic!

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I'm really very pleased and just a little bit proud of how my photography has developed, now that I have achieved  some photography distinctions.  

 

That's it!

 

You've just read the About Me of Annette Crook CPAGB  BPE2 LRPS. 

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Onward and upward!

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