15 month of a photo-hobbyist

Disclaimer: all coincidences are strictly coincidental. Really.

• January. I took some photos of my kitty using a P&S. Horror. I should buy an SLR. They suggested a Nikon D300. Now, it all will start!
• February. I realized that the kit lens is not good enough. No sharpness, and the bokeh is rather awkward. I was taking photos of my kitty, the whiskers are not sharp, and the edges are blurry.
• March. I bought a Nikkor 17-55/2.8. It's sharp like a razor. I photographed my kitty: I can see each whisker. Now, it all will start!
• April. Only lame photographers use APS DSLRs. I bought a full frame body - Nikon D700 - now, I am shooting my kitty in the dark at ISO 25600. Canon sucks. I replaced the 17-55 with a 24-70.
• May. The kit lens focal range is not sufficient for me. I bought a 14-24/2.8 and a 70-200/2.8 VR. Now, I am snapping kitties on the neighboring roofs.
• June. I realized why real photographers use fixed lenses; bought an 85/1.4. I photographed my kitty: the whiskers are in focus, the rest is pleasantly blurry. Now, it all will start!
• July. In some forum, I read that the modern lenses lack the artsy character. So, I bought old manual fixed lenses: 50/1.2 and 85/2.0. I am trying to catch my kitty in focus but he gets away, what a bum!
• August. They booed my kitty on Flickr: the horizon is off. I bought a carbon-fiber Manfrotto tripod with a level. Now, it all will start!
• September. No, Digital does not have the right feel... I bought a professional Nikon F6, and now 'm enjoying the eye-pleasing film grain. The cat's fur on the scans is very annoying.
• October. The photolab ruined my film with the new photos of my kitty. I bought an enlarger Durst and started printing myself. The kitty mastered leaving with the red light.
• November. Wisdom comes with experience. I sold all that Nikon sh*t to some newbie, - together with the storage cabinet for optics, and got a Leica M7. Those are the real pictures! The only problem is that the kitty tends to be off center; I am learning to correct for parallax.
• December. I realized what a fool I was. I sold Leica, got a Hasselblad (I was considering Bronica, but decided I'd had enough compromises). In order to buy the digital back, I tried to sell a few photos of my kitty, but the photo-stock company was not interested. I was forced to sell my car. It turned out it wasn't enough for the digital back, but now I have studio lights.
• January. Hasselblad is heavy like hell, - it fell on the kitty. On the positive side, - the kitty crawls much slower using only three legs, - it's easier to photograph him this way.
• February. Finally! Hassel is in the closet, I am photographing my kitty with a Holga-pin-hole. I got great comments in anti_photo, but for some reason everybody thinks it's my self-portrait.
• March. - Hooray! ... My poor kitty. I brought home a Linhof 4x5" camera, showed it to him, but he meowed very ruefully, limped to the window and jumped off the 16th floor. I went down to the street, photographed the bloody remains using a mobile phone, uploaded it to a photo-site - it became a photo of the day. Now, I realize that if I did that from the balcony through the tree brunches, using a tele-lens that would've been really cool. I should buy a DSLR again, - just in case. ... and a couple of kitties. Everything is just starting!...