I've gotten back into photography by way of my birding hobby -- it so naturally suggests getting pictures of the birds you see, to assist in and confirm identification if for nothing else. So I got into digiscoping more than a year ago, and now have moved up by getting a Canon Digital Rebel. For now, trying to get good pictures of even familiar birds has pretty much supplanted running around trying to see new birds. I have a "photolist" of 147 species, combining digiscopes with recent photos --
http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41/index.html -- and now here I'm just posting the better ones of the Rebel photos. Will photolisting turn into real photography? Who knows.. I'm getting hooked on learning the tricks of Photoshop Elements, which may be a bad sign
Tom