Taken with my all-time favorite lens.

The power of bokeh! Makes the subject leap off the page. Usually takes a long lens to get that effect.

Well done!

That's excellent, Hyram!

I was thinking of my self portrait!

Sockpuppet,

Check your post's title again - sure got MY attention!

Now, if we coulds got the sky, clouds and cloud shadows on the mountain from #1 into #2.................

Good to hear from you, Ben!

Look forward to the interview.

Best wishes,

I have an Optio60 with eye-level viewer as well as LCD screen. The viewer is so small as to be useless.

I thing I really find limiting on all Point and Shoot cameras is the inability to have sun shades, or filters (especially Polarizers).

They're rivaling DSLRs on megapixels and even Shake Reduction, but other than that - bleah! IMHO of course.

SRS has a bunch of high end refurbs if you're still interested.

Enjoy Canada!

I do..........

Belinda,

Thanks for that - on two counts:

a shot of one of my favorite cities in America - and it captures the feeling of the place very well.

for showing what these little wonders could, and hopefully still can, do.

I'm awaiting deliverly of my first Auto 110 and its three basic lenses.

Your picture really whets my appitite!

Cheers

I heartily recommend looking up information on grey cards - or better yet, buying a good one with instructions from a photoshop.

You will learn a great deal about basic photography, and will use one forever.

If you notice pros, when they set up their gear for photoshoots, almost always employ grey cards.

I'm glad to see that they're as useful today as they were in the days of film.

I was given a Photoflex LiteDisc last year and figured I'd never use it.

This spring as I crawled around on the forest floor taking macros of badly lit flora where either the sunlight wasn't cooperating or I was too close for flash, it dawned on me to give this lightweight, silver or gold reflector a try.

Very glad I did - nothing beats naturally reflected sunlight when shooting flowers.

As I don't have three hands, it also makes me use tripods and sand bags to hold the camera while I direct the light. - Not a bad thing!

Welcome Gareth!!

For a "newbie" you're taking some wonderful shots!

(I say "newbie" in jest. They are downright wonderful shots - period.)

You seem to have panning down to a science. Was your camera set on auto?

A tremendous feeling of action in the picture of the flagman.

The equipment and its operator are working flawlessly, and I congratulate you.

'course, now you have to outdo yourself.

What camera does Clare use? Get her to sign in too.

Cheers,