Wife and I went to Wall Springs Park this afternoon with hope of a picture or two. No luck. Got home and read in the paper of sightings a few miles North of us. We are just South of Tarpon Springs.

Oh, well, I'll keep trying. Thanks for your comment.

Thanks, I've lived here over thirty years and was not aware of that. Goes to show, you can still learn at any age.

Just curious. Since we have quite a few members from Florida, has anyone seen any of these birds? I read in the paper that they have been sighted around the Merritt Island area as well as Pasco County. The annual bird count is next weekend and they expect to include this bird in their count. I have yet to see one.

Maybe they're waiting for their introduction next week?

How about this?

Hibiscus

I've been sharing my hobby of photography with my wife. She is trying to get her head around the exposure triangle and doing a great job of it. She is probably the only person alive that will try to shoot hand-held at 1/10 of a second and do a good job of it. Not a problem today when we walked out the front door and this confronted her. She wouldn't look through the view-finder let alone stand still for a tenth of a second.

Guest - I think it's smiling!


Yup, looks like it


She didn't like this either

Yup!

Thank you, this was taken the same day. I just thought the wing shot was different.

Swimming

Bird houses were shot in my neighborhood, around the corner and the duck at Wall springs Park near Palm Harbor, FL. I posted some pictures of the park about a week ago.

Thanks,

Where I run into a problem is when I copy a picture to a new project folder. My computer then lists duplicates of the JPG, but in different locations.

If you use a program like Picassa, it will scan your hard drive and include the duplicate in a new file.

If I move instead of copy, Lightroom has difficulty locating the original file.

Solution for me is to monthly run duplicate finder program and hand delete files I no longer need. I find these programs serve a purpose when used in this manner but should not be used for mass deletions.

Welcome and great first camera.

Good composition

Thanks!

Two pictures that I discovered something in. The first is a group of birdhouses I took and when blown up the one in lower left has an occupant. The other is a quite beautiful shade of purple I did not know was on the bird!

Occupant


The Color Purple

Okay. First is out of camera and second is IR converted to B&W (attempt, I should say). It does show more detail in highlights.

Out of Camera


IR Attempt

I thank everyone for their input. I delete a lot of photos because of poor lighting, composition and so on, but I guess this shows that much is in the point of the viewer.

Again, thank all,
Larry