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A good professional photographer is an artist. There is a term "starving artist". Before you go down this path decide whether that is important to you. You might just want to me a enthusiastic amatuer.
The thing about art, if you are truely creative and love what your doing the money will come. Just not right away and not all at once. That's why its good to have a fall back plan.
As for photography itself. Learning your equipment and being able to get shots in focus is the easy part. Everyone learns that in time with a little practice and experiance. The hard part is getting a photographers eye. The ability to look at something and know how it will look in print. I have to admit, I don't have it yet. I drove around all winter complaining that the brown landscape getting any decent pictures impossible. Then I see pros who traveled the same landscape and get beautiful captures.
Anyway, learn about composition, get a somewhat decent digital camera, I recommend a nice used SLR, (the through lens view makes composition easier) and start taking pictures. Take hundreds of them and examine them for what you like and don't like about them. Read books, read the net, and look at lots and lots of pro pictures to see how they did it.
Mike
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