One vote for photography here: you can get as technical as you want (or as your wallet allows) but you can produce great work with just your phone's camera. You

One vote for photography here: you can get as technical as you want (or as your wallet allows) but you can produce great work with just your phone's camera. You can show it off to other people, or just keep your laptop supplied with desktop images. I have found, however, that while I really like photography and I really like coding, it can be very, very difficult to switch between the two - on the order of weeks to go from "thinking like a photographer" to "thinking like a programmer". Perhaps that will improve with time.