As far as I can recall, I’ve always loved photography, but I have only recently begun shooting myself. I use a fully manual Pentax MX and a Pentax 645, usually with 50, 43 and 35 mm equivalent lenses, and mostly shoot BW.
I now manage quite often to put things on focus and am exercising on composition, playing with the light and shooting at the right moment. One step further would be getting all this stuff in the same photo. But that moment still looks far away…