Great post UncFai. There is a pro who has taken a self imposed project to a very high level...all the way to Oxford...marketing genius!
I started off this hobby through vintage Carl Zeiss Jena scopes used to look for parasites and the such on my tropical aquarium fish...one day I put a P&S up to the scope and the next thing you know I was on the bay buying photography gear. My aquarium hobby soon fell to the wayside.