Bigben94

Hey everybody!
Just my annual update here, I just finished moving up about 500 miles Northwest of where I used to live (Detroit) to Marquette Michigan. Its quite the transition switching from a metro area of about 4 million people to a town of about 20,000 but I think I'm gonna like it. I Moved up here for school but its a really beautiful area right on the Southern shore of Lake Superior, it's also a hilly, almost mountainous area which coming from flat, Southern Michigan is cause for excitement with me haha. Anyways hopefully this new setting will lead to more regular work from me if I can find the time to get out every now and then.

So a good 6 months after i had planned on it i finally broke down and bought a D40 today. My graduation money ended up being eaten up by car repairs and my funds have been too tight to swing a camera until now. As you might expect i am really excited to experiment around with it some and having to wait so long to finally get it makes things even worse. Having only used a simple point and shoot camera before I'm completely overwhelmed by all the different settings and modes on this and i expect it will take quite some time to really get the feel for it. I know I'm planning on heading up into northern Michigan sometime within the next few weeks and hopefully I'll have enough of a feel for the camera to get some decent shots

Well I'm graduating from high school in a week and I'm pretty sure that I'm going to spend some of my graduation money on a camera. I don't want to spend a ton of money on a new one so i started looking around on craigslist. I've found a couple Nikon D40 Digital SLR's on there for around 350 USD and i was wondering if anyone's heard anything good or bad about them? or if anyone has any suggestions on a different camera that's close to that price I'd be open to other options.
Thanks,
Ben

Hello Everyone!
I just got home from a 4 hour drive home from Northern Michigan and as much as I'm going to miss the countryside up there it does feel good to be home. I had gone up with the intentions of getting some spring photography done but forgot to factor in the fact that the weather up there is roughly a month behind what it is in Detroit so i ended up getting more bleak winter transition stuff. Ill put up what i got over the next few days as i need to filter through it and I'm really too tired to do it now.

Also, same as before, i know next to nothing about Photography so any tips or pointers anyone could give me would be greatly appreciated.

Hey people,
leave me some feedback on my work, good or bad id like to hear it either way, i wanna know what im doin right and how i can improve on what im not doin right. anyways, if you could help me out here id really appreciate it.


also, im leavin on vacation tomorrow morning for a week. im goin to the bruce peninsula in canada which is a really pretty rural area with some beautiful cliffs and rock formations so im hopin ill get some good shots there anyways im ramblin on and ive got packin i should be doin

thanks in advance if you give me some feedback,
Ben