New Hobby

So I sort of feel like everyone and anyone is getting into photography lately and I sort of feel like I'm jumping on the band wagon... BUT I've really wanted to do this for like a LONG time, but have never done anything about it until now.  I'm not trying to jump on professional photographers' backs or take over businesses, I'm just doing it for fun, a hobby.  My husband was cool enough to allow me to buy a nice Canon Rebel T3.  I decided to do some free sessions, just to help me learn the camera and try out poses and things like that.  So I go to the The Journey for church and we have an online site that allows you to post ads, so I put up "Free Photographer" and explained that I'm very much of an amateur and just kinda trying this out for fun and what do you know, people jumped over the free-ness.  Putting it up for free took off a lot of pressure, because even if the pictures were horrible no one was out of any money.  So it was pretty cool to get back responses. I'm excited to start this adventure and I'm already looking for a new lense with a greater zoom because my husband and I hike a lot and having a 3x zoom limits what I can take pictures of.  I'm very excited about this hobby and I hope you enjoy watching me grow (hopefully) into somewhat of a great (I'd even go for good) photographer.