What a wonderful beginning.. Or not so much?!

Alright so... I FINALLY got my wonderful DSLR camera! Woosh! One of those big fat awesome ones! I LOVE it! My mom and dad are the greatest for getting it for me!

I named him Pika.. like Pikachu from Pokemon but just the PIKA part (yes I name all my inanimate objects, don't judge) My inspiration for this name you ask? Well my mom posted on my facebook begging for pictures and she said PICTURES! and it reminded me cause I often pronounce the word "pictures" like Pika-tures" (Once again, Don't Judge!)

So I thought, what am I going to do with these pictures when I take them anyways? I am not really one for posting my random life on Facebook, but I still really wanted to post them, I feel posting them for the world to see gives them more validity, Kinda like writing a poem on paper, it gets it out instead of locked away in your little mind. But, then I thought, my pictures, are going to SUCK, especially when I am just getting started, I don't want people to see those! That's EMBARRASSING!... This thought was proceeded by another. I thought that maybe if I post it online I can,

1.) get feed back from those in the photography world who know what they are doing and can give me constructive criticism, teach me what I can do better, and tell me things I do well. This way I can grow on my strengths and strengthen my weaknesses.

2.) and reason two was so that if step one actually works for me, and I become to get better at this whole PIKATURE thing, I can visually see my progress from where I started at to how much I have grown, or in a more negative sense, I will look at my beginning pictures, and my more recent pictures, and see that my skills have not gotten any better, if not worse. This way I can more quickly come to the realization that I royally suck at this and can stop before i embarrass myself! :D

And for these reasons, I have pledged to post my pictures, even if they are terrible, painful to look at, or down right dirt, I am posting them so that I can learn from them! "What doesn't kill you can only make you stronger." So after that long explanation of nothing, here is the grand presentation of me and Pika's first attempt at what some might consider "art". I was mostly just playing around with him today, learning how he works and what he can do. I know my skills are lacking, especially since I haven't taken any classes (which I plan to do, promise!) But I hope you enjoy! *OH! and if you actually are knowledgeable in this area, PLEASE, I beg you, to feel free to speak up, I need all the help I can get! :D

Oh, and by the way, I am new to this "Blogger" world.. I don't really know much of the technical stuff, or the pretty decoration stuff, so bare with me! :D