thanks for the warm welcome.
i bought a Panasonic FZ50 just before xmas, that was my first camera of any type (ex. throw aways). i've truely been bitten buy the bug as just 3 months later i've gone and bought a 'proper' DSLR.
i got in to it because i started a new job, which involved me driving up on to Dartmoor almost daily, i'd not been there since i was a kid and i'd forgotten how beautiful it is and how varied it can been. i bought the FZ50 to get a few landscape type shots off, but i've now got the D80 so i can vary the type of subject depending on the conditions and oppotunites.
i've uploaded a few here:
Flickr: Photos from steveo_uk