I have tried a few amateurish clicks using my dad's Pentax K-1000, which I have placed in my gallery.

I have a certain fascination for those pics having a very shallow depth of field, focussing on the close object and obtaining a natural blur in the background. I tried a few such clicks, and was lucky to get the desired effect.

I feel the only learning curve in photography is the understanding of what the appropriate settings should be when we are clicking a pic, the reamining is only your creativity.