Where do you want to go with your photography

[Ezookiel]

My main goal, is when I go somewhere, and take a photo while there, that it be a photo worth showing people, a photo that does the place justice, and that doesn't make me cringe as I look back through them later.
My secondary goal is to get a bit "creative" with pictures, trying new and interesting things, but still primarily around my first goal - i.e. creative stuff I can do with photography while I'm out and about camping/travelling/etc.
Within both of those, I'd like to be relatively "multiskilled" - that is I'd like to know how to do a reasonable job of a wide variety of photos - take a good macro, take a good portrait shot, take good scenery shots, know how to take low light shots around a campfire or sunrise/sunset, know how to get the pictures needed for an HDR shot, take or stitch a reasonable pano, etc etc.
That's probably asking a lot for an amateur, and requires far more hours with a camera in my hand than work and life will probably ever allow me, but hopefully I have a lot of life left in which to do it.

[reflect]

Cant vote in this Poll, as there is no option for wanting to be God

You wouldn't like it mate, the hours are too long and the employee are a dodgy lot

[Tommo224]

I have similar goals as Ezookiel up there.

Learning my camera so I can take it with me wherever I go and produce great photos of a certain creativity standard to show people. Help keep memories, help share the memories. Show people the place/subject in the way I saw it/them.

If I could become a resident photographer for a company like ADV1wheels.com, that would be a dream. Photographing high quality beautiful cars in great locations to be produced and shown to the masses, that'd be great

Amongst the people I know, I'm the go-to guy for photo stuff. I don't see myself as a beginner anymore, but maybe under "Intermediate" level. I know my way around my camera, it's just trying to improve myself in a range of types of photos. I have an interest mostly in Portraits and Vehicles, as well as just the world around me. Trying to show it off in a different way to the norm, but as well as embracing what people usually see. Just with a bit of a "Tommy Style Twist" to it (if you will)

My photo a day project has helped me learn so much!
http://daily.omgtom.net

[Wayne63]

At the moment photography will be a hobby for me and as others have said with working 48 - 50 hours a week doesn't leave a lot of time. Still try and get out when the opportunity arises and try to master the camera and hopefully one day get that perfect bird shot

[Ezookiel]

I'd get out more to practice if I could stop being so damned lazy. Dead still morning, and gorgeous lake down the road with a town centre on the other side of it, and a great chance to play around with night reflections, and even though the dog asked to go out for a pee at 4:50am, instead of getting up and grabbing the camera and tripod to head down there and experiment, instead I kicked the dog out the back and went back to bed. With dedication like that, I'll be lucky to ever progress past newbie - LOL.

[cam bicknell]

It's a hobby for me and always will be. I like my normal job and making a living as a photographer sounds quite difficult.
I like to pick what I shoot and feel similarly to others that have posted above that turning a hobby into your job can kill the enjoyment.

One of the biggest pluses of photography for me is that it makes me pay attention a lot more.