'You need a really fancy camera to take good photos', or 'You need to know about photography' Not true.

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I know very little about photography, and own an uncomplicated digital camera. It's an Olympus Miu 720 SW, with 7.1 megapixels and a 512 MB memory card. And I only know that because I've just read it from the camera.

What you need, to take good photos, is to click madly away at everything you see until the message 'Memory Card Full' is displayed, (mine takes about 120 pictures at the top resolution, whatever that means), then download the photos onto your computer, and delete all the disasters.

I have learnt by error and trial over the last couple of years, and now put any photos I really like onto CDs, and take them to the photographer to get printed - either as enlargements, which i display on my study walls, or to put into albums. Yes, I still am old-fashioned enough to keep albums up to date, and the kids love browsing through them when they come.

And I also upload them onto Facebook and Flickr, so that friends and family abroad can see them. Click on the links below, if you'd like to see some.

Chile: Atacama Desert: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=12223&l=60eb7&id=664241054

Peru: Near Machu Picchu http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=5094&l=702cc&id=664241054

Uruguay: The Seal Colony at Cabo Polonio: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=5093&l=52729&id=664241054

Tanzania: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=4807&l=bf436&id=664241054

Donegal, Ireland: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=22576&l=1099f&id=664241054

My Best Photos: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=14711&l=239b4&id=664241054

Montevideo, Uruguay: The Rambla and the air Display:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=26424&l=01508&id=664241054.

Other (some repeats): http://www.flickr.com/photos/paolafhanna/sets/