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trojanllama
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Thanks for the replies, all has been noted.  Especially thanks to I Hate..  I can see now that the framing is a dangerous road to Faux hell, thank you for steering me away!

I’ve been a snapping away since my first Kodak Instamatic, forty years ago, documenting stuff, but photography only became a more serious hobby around six years ago or so.  I’ve always separated my hobbies from my work – always seen my past-times as just that, and not for monetary gain.  Amateur means “for the love of”.  I feel that all of these faux wanna be professionals are a sign of our present day social values – that you need to make money from anything for it to have value.  Sad for an old rebel like me.

Never mind, I’ll carry on doing my thing, trying to improve, trying to make attractive and interesting images, or to document ‘stuff’, using my low budget gear.  Thanks again, love the website and will contribute to the forums from an amateur perspective.