yebbut - it's in a different country !!

Stefan ,you can't always define what gives you pleasure / sense of achievement or what have you , but you certainly know when you have achieved it .

Yes - sometimes it's just a record of somewhere I've been / something I've seen and when I see it again it brings back memories - occasionally painful [ the very last picture taken of my husband ] but these are all things I enjoy.

If some of my photos give pleasure to others - then I'm glad .

Is this art ? I think so - but it depends on your definition

I felt tonight's class review was a real success thanks to all the help and support I got

It really gave me a huge kick when my pics , particularly the wire balloon whisk job which Mike-P helped me get right , were called 'Proper Macros '

I really felt I had been struggling so much and achieving nothing compared with the rest of the class .

Next week's is going to be fun too There's a fantastic example of what we are intended to produce on the Design Icons thread - the Andy Warhol one

Goodness knows if I'll produce anything a quarter as good - we are to take in up to 6 pics for this - and do the Photoshopping in class . The alternative is make a jigsaw using a 3D object and taking up to 6 pics of different bits of it . Head scratching going one already .

However - it's a very BIG thanks for all the help I get

OH - the screw photo which got done today
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Try this one Stefan

At present I'm struggling to do what I want to achieve - it's hard work for me , I'm just a very raw beginner .

I want to take photos that please me , and hopefully please other people that see them too.

Tonight I took in my homework to class - I was pretty happy with it . We reviewed the homework and I began to wonder if I'd understood the task correctly.

Jim out tutor was late - he sent someone else to start us off [ I'll make no comment on what we did then ] and finally Jim arrived and went quickly through the pics.

He got to one of them and called out

"Now that's what I call a Macro . Who's is it ? " - yup it was mine and so was the next one too - 2 largeish brass screws I had found this afternoon and shot.

Now his approval of what I had done gave me a huge amount of pleasure - to me that's what it's about, that's art in one of its many forms

oh my - that second one makes me shiver just looking at that water .

How did you take the first one - it's fascinating me - the second building appears almost vertical , but the orangy one is definitely not quite 'true' .

Inquiring minds , who can't eve take a decent pic yet , want to know

It's not about the Dutch - but I have memories of arriving on a small Portugese Site - beside the river and we had hardly set up , being the only Brits on Site as far as we could see [ and we had used this site for about 4 years ] when a couple of very redfaced [ sunburnt ] people rushed up shouting "We'll tell you where to get proper tea and Bread "

There was a bakery right at the gates of the Site - with wonderful fresh bread and rolls every couple of hours during the day !!

And the caravan contains a HUGE amount of tinned food

I heard the Dutch owners of a Caravan Site in France complaining that, despite the fact that their little restaurant on Site catered for their countrymen , they still brought most of the food with them.

Well mine finally appeared

Took it out today for a play [ I go to Edinburgh and back by Coach on Sundays - a 7.5 hour day ] and enjoyed myself with it .

I'm impressed , very impressed . It looks as if with a bit of care I'm going to get some stunning pics

First impressions - it's tiny !! It's very shiny white , and surprisingly heavy for its size. It's also very clever but I'm starting to understand the way it works .

I do find the lack of a paper manual rather a nuisance .

Just some I 'snapped' today

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Should have used Sports setting on this - but I just grabbed it quickly as I was surprised there was still snow here .


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Then I zoomed in and got this

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This is going to be fun carrying it about with me

And there's no piccy of the Canon - it's a pic of the Pentax lens !!