Last Christmas I was able to get my hands on my first proper camera, the Canon EOS 1000D. Over the course of that year I have taken a few thousand photos, several photo shoots and many scenery photos.

Here is just a quick show of how my photography has improved in general over that year. It's just a bit of fun and some shots come out much better and worse than others.


Christmas 2008:






Christmas 2009:



Originally intended as a HDR test, I kind of like this result as it is.



...And many more years of photography and improvements ahead of me.


Merry Christmas everyone 

machineman9 wrote on Dec 25^th, 2009 at 10:23am:
Used to be a fairly avid photographer myself.  My old OM2 has been gathering dust for nine years now plus 3 Zuiko lenses and a Vivitar series1 28-90.  In the bag they make a good doorstop.  .