In the SLR game

Well, I finally gave in and bought an SLR camera this week. I've always been about convenience, hence all my pictures were taken from my camera phone. After a while though, the pictures and memories that got captured from those pictures all started to look the same. No depth. Just bland pictures that gave me the same mindless reaction "Oh yeah I remember that. Heh...". I was always impressed with the pictures that people took with their SLR cameras but I was never motivated to get one because of the cost, it was inconvenient, compared to my camera phone and the fact that some lenses cost more than the camera itself. I tried one at a local electronic store last week and was amazed that even I could take a picture of a simple object with little to no effort and it would look stunning. So now, I hope to take better pictures and possibly turn it into a hobby... hopefully not an expensive one...