Ever since I was a child, I’ve always enjoyed taking photographs.  My first camera was a little disk camera where the film was on a wheel.  Obviously to anybody reading this today the concept of having only a dozen and a half shots and you had to take the film to a shop to get them developed is archaic beyond believe, even more so considering that even the most primitive mobile phone has a digital camera.  The introduction of social sharing mechanisms such as Facebook and Flickr (and many more) has transformed the amateur world of photography into something quite fantastic.

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