The Triumphs and Tribulations of Wiz

So, as you may or may not know, I got paid last week for the work I did for Mum in her office and it was burning a hole and I had been wanting to buy a new camera for some time now. So I finally put my Money where my mouth is, and bought a Nikon D40.
The camera arrived on wednesday and I have not stopped using it ever since. It is a really nice camera to hold, not to heavy but not going to float away and the grip on it makes it easy to hold one handed. Programmed auto is good but now I now need to learn how to set up the shot to make them better. I have uploaded a few of my photos to my flickr here with all the photos before my Halo 3 shots being ones taken on my D60. The camera itself is 6.3mp which is good, there really isn't any need for more as I will not be blowing pictures up bigger than A3 and so do not need the resolution. The lens is a good starter lens, 18-55mm lens, but it doesn't have vibration redution/image stabilization and so shots can get quite blurry at longer exposure lengths.
But as a good camera to get into photography? Yes definitely