[Arkady]

My name's Rob, I'm 42 (no-ooooo - I'm only 26 surely!!!!) and I'm a professional photographer for the MoD. Currently employed by the Army as the Team Phot for the Defence Media Operations Group based in Uxbridge near London.
We deploy all around the world with the UK Armed Forces and provide stills and ENG (video) to the civilian news agencies.
My images go out to PA, Reuters and Getty Images, thus ensuring world-wide coverage.
I've been taking photos since my granddad gave me a Pentax Spotmatic (which my mother now holds onto for safe-keeping) when I was 12 years old.
I now use digital exclusively for my work, using NIKON D1x cameras (soon to be replaced with D2x's), but still have most of my film cameras, including a pair of Leica M6's and a couple of Nikons - F5 and FM2.

If you're buying digital, I'd say go for the Canon EOS system as the metering and auto-focus is superb (though the D2x may change all of that), but for film, you still can't beat Nikon.

Lots of my work now on the Gallery Pages.