It was late in 2010 that I was inspired to take my photography to a different place. Up until this point my photography was mainly business related, photos for websites and advertising. After reading several books by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer and The Artists Way by Julia Cameron I felt a strong pull to creating images purely for fun.

The journey started with my first digital camera an Olympus C- 2500L 2.5Mp camera.

This camera was the one I used for product photography but I never ventured out of Auto Mode and had never read the manual.

The camera was actually more like what today is called a bridge camera and has many of the same settings as a SLR camera. I read the manual and tried to get a grasp on the features but just found it confusing. So I decided to take one feature at a time. This…