So as a child I was always very click happy. In the age of film cameras - this upset my parents, but I always had to have at least ten pictures of each angle of every mountain. Just imagining the piles of photographs I used to sort through after every vacation still makes me laugh.

My camera is more and more enticing these days, I often get distracted when doing field work. Measuring the diameter of trees is far less interesting than the fuzzy bummed bug (that looks like a seed) that we found over on the tree. And of course spending half an hour trying to get a decent shot of that bug is a common occurrence.

Of course my only camera at the moment is still my point and shoot, good as it might be - it really annoys me when I can't get it to focus just right. Add to that my lack of understanding of lighting, and you might be able to imagine just how frustrated I keep getting when hours of picture taking yields not one decent shot.

I'm trudging along though, struggling to master my point and shoot (which I will master) and looking into getting my first "real" camera.

We'll see where this road takes me... Hopefully somewhere with vivid images and amazing memories.