Hi everybody, I signed up here a couple of days ago and "sneaked in" through the galleries .... Renderosity is so big that it took me a while to find this particular place. My real name is Gitte, but that was already taken :-(, so I used the French spelling and my husband's family name. I'm Danish, but live in Paris since 1988. 42 years old, husband and two small boys. I have always done creative stuff such as drawing, oil and acrylics, fashion making, but not on a regular basis and only for my own pleasure. My first ambition after leaving school was to get accepted at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and become a painter, which I prepared for with a special drawing course during a year. I then gave it up without even having tried for financial reasons and got a job with which the time made me an import/export assistant and brought me to Germany and then to France. Now I have the opportunity to reorientate professionally, so from next Monday, I'm starting at a photography school where I'll stay for a year. It's an intensive one year course for adults - youngsters do it in two years. I'll get a professional diploma in the end. The plan is to buy a photostore with my husband. I imagine it much more than just a regular photostore for development only, but I'm perhaps dreaming .... well, aren't dreams the motor of life ? My interest for photography started a year ago when taking reference photos with a small compact camera for a childrens' book project I have. After a while, I started to use my husbands 22 year old Canon AE-1 and recently, I bought myself a Canon EOS 30. I'm starting from the ground and digital will have to wait for a while. Enough about myself - sorry for that fat novel :-( I don't think there are many people who I already know in this particular forum, but I did notice Bevchiron who I know from another forum outside Renderosity. Tell me, did you drop the "Photo of the Week" ? Apparently, it was a nice place for quality photos to have the place they deserve. Thanks for reading me :-) Gitte