Patrick, Thank you. I am definitely an amateur. Three decades back I took a photography class and learned the basics. I bought a good Nikon film camera and several lenses and practiced quite a bit, even buying a dozen or so photography books to try to improve. While my children were growing up I took many pics of them. When I got into cycling the two hobbies meshed and more often than not I had a camera with me on my rides. These days with a decent smart phone or compact digital camera it's of course easy to snap away. It's also easy to get sloppy and not concentrate on the various aspects of a decent pic and rush which I most often do. Along with the improved cameras on phones the editing software has improved which makes it pretty convenient to crop, adjust, the light, exposure, contrast, color saturation, tone and quite a bit more to one's preferences. Also I make good use of the delete button. I love playing with various special effects features also. Photos turn out better of course if I think through the composition, the lighting, etc b4 snapping it, having something decent to work with on the editing. Over the years I've had 3 friends that were quite good, one a professional that inspired me to work at it. I admire the Riv folks and other folks that take film cameras along and then share their results. Paul in DallasAmateur who knows what makes for a decent photo but often rushing the processand perhaps liking a couple photos I take out of a hundred.
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