Definitely seeing an addiction to things that sparkle...
Back before I decided to suck it up and pay a photographer I was starting to get decent photographs. It does help to have a nice camera, but even with run of the mill ones or a phone some sort of tripod goes a long way towards better photos. I've also tried some new post processing software that is reasonably priced. It's called Luminar and is made by Skylum. Not a bad bit of photo editing software for the price.
Hope you've enjoyed turning them!