Paul - What kind of camera do you have? Up until October last year, I was taking most of my photos with either my phone (iPhone4s) or my Canon PowerShot SD1200IS. But my PowerShot wasn't doing what I wanted it to do as far as shots & managed to snag the deal of the century from my best friend.. a Canon Rebel T3. I've got a few different lenses for it now and am able to take much better pictures.. if I had anything worthy of taking pictures of!! Some clouds I got pictures of..
http://i.imgur.com/3P7PI.jpg And some kind of mystery flower I took a picture of.. it was mostly frozen.
http://i.imgur.com/rZIMD.jpg