Richard

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Gender Male
Occupation Navy
Location Australia
Introduction I'm an amateur photographer (and I use the term photographer lightly) and picked up my first decent camera on about the 2nd Jan 2008. A Nikon D40x digital SLR. I've never been all that interested in the finer points of photography until I started getting involved in an online photography forum shown to me by a friend. This was full of inspirational photos by budding photographers, they would post up their latest efforts and everyone would comment and critique. I liked what I saw and was instantly inspired. So, after 10 1/2 years in the Royal Australian Navy, stagnating as a Mine Warfare sailor, This is my journey from a point and shoot, cut off the tops of heads style camera user, to (hopefully) a professional photographer employed by the R.A.N.