Hi, my name is Mandy. My passion for photography began very early, because my dad was also an amateur photographer and developed the photos themselves still in the lab. When I was 9 or 10 years old, I finally got my own camera, a pink Beir Beirette made in the former gdr. I won this in a contest and I was so proud. Later I get the practica of my dad, but never photographed with it ... I had no time. About 12 years ago I went with a nikon f50 into the SLR world, but only with autofocus and automatic program. Some time later my daughter and we moved to Austria and the camera in dusty cabinet. When I thought back on it, the autofocus does not work anymore and my 1 digital camera moved in, so a small compact, which was sufficient to me in time, but the desire was a DSLR, of course, again a Nikon because I was with my f50 actually very happy. In 2012 it was finally over, I had my first dslr in hand, a nikon d50. it was for the beginning and learn the technique quite enough (fill my bookshelf many photo books) but I strove for more and so I came to my d5100. So far I had only taken snapshots, but now I really want to immerse themselves in the photografie and would therefore be very grateful for any hint, criticism and praise from you. But I will also make a photo workshop in May 2013 in order to finally be able to make good photos