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Prasad Saya • Edited

Keep on learning, but make sure to take your time and take breaks, so you don't get too burnt out on this stuff...

Well, I'd like to stay away from JavaScript on weekends. I am learning (actually re-learning), er..., Photography. What? Yes, but using a real camera (its a dedicated device and is not attached to phone, computer, etc., and I can use it with different lenses).

I am still trying to use it (it has a 600+ pages user manual and it is categorized as an entry level camera!). But, one of the first photographs I made I posted on this forum already last week. I had a post which had a borrowed photograph, and I replaced with my own. This is the article dev.to/prsaya/books-i-had-read-in-... .

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Michael Tharrington

Oh, awesome Prasad. Photography is such a cool hobby to get into! And sounds like you're already learning loads.

So cool that you're gonna be using your own pics as cover images too!

I bet you could come up with some fun ideas to play with titles too. For instance, if you ever write on Spring Boot, you need to take a picture of a boot on a pretty day with flowers sticking out of it like it's a vase, haha.

You could even potentially start up a repo of photos for folks to use in their tech posts, that'd be kinda cool!

Anyway, hope you'll share more of your photography in the future! Always cool to drop a pic in the thread of one of my posts if you wanna.

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Prasad Saya • Edited

Thanks for the nice words and suggestions. I will keep in mind and try to produce some photos and post on this website over coming weeks.

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Alexander B.K.

Photography ...
As you are a Java guy, this immediately reminds me of James Duncan Davidson, the creator of Tomcat (Java-based web server) and Ant (Java-based build tool). His interest also included photography and even became a professional in this field.