After going it alone for two weeks now, I decided today to see if I can hang out over at Digital Photography School, by signing up as a forum member. The process was easily done and in less than five minutes, I got myself registered.

“Back to school” was not really an appropriate title for this entry because I had no photography school to go back to — I’ve never been to photography school before. All I did was to learn through trial and error with whatever equipment I had.

Speaking of equipment, I got my first camera when I was 15 years old. That was decades ago, when computer was still rocket science to mankind. It’s a small camera that uses 110-type black and while film.

Wanna know I got it? I was in Secondary Three at a boarding school in Sabah when I saw an advertisement in the paper about cameras for sale by mail order.

I filled up the mail order form and had it sent to the retailer with a cover letter, saying “Please send me this camera by registered mail. I’ll pick it up at the post office. As for the payment, I’ll pay it at the post office once I receive the camera.”

A month later, I receive a notification slip saying my camera has arrived at the post office. When the time come for me to collect the parcel, I asked the man at the counter about the payment. He told me I needed not pay the post office anything.

Huh? I took the camera anyway and played with it until it broke down about two months later.

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