Let's start with some pictures

I started playing with photography in the way back when. There were no DSLRs or point and shoots back then, only a Minolta SLR that I had the great good fortune of playing around with. It had a fungal growth on the lens and many mysterious buttons and knobs... spent many an happy hour noodling around with it till somebody took it away. Fast forward to 2005 or thereabouts when I bought myself a point and shoot for about a 150 Euros. That camera was an impenetrable puzzle to me but I did manage to take a few ok pictures with it. There was a hiatus after that when it was mostly cell phone cameras with mind bendingly noisy pictures. Jump again to 2010 when I finally decided that I would pursue photography as a hobby and by a happy confluence of events, also had the money to do it. So I became a Canon guy with a 550D and the 18-55 kit lens. I had no idea of all the bells and whistles it had and had even less of an idea about what to do with the pictures after I had taken them. I think ...