Sinatraman, thank you so much for the advice on the books. I've received both of them now and they are awesome! My photography class is moving right along - daunting but I'm learning! I can see real quick that this is going to become an obsession of mine! LOL Thanks for the help!!! :D

Oh how adorable! How could you not love that face???? :-D

Love the fireman silhouette.....awesome shot! :thumbup:

Wow.....that shot is amazing!!! :thumbup:

Here's a shot of my babies - the one in the foreground is my little rescue, Remy, with her sidekick, Molly, in the background. This is one of my first assignments for my photography class - foreground and background. Still got a long way to go! :-)

Gaylee, if I were you, I wouldn't turn my back on Santa Kitty - he/she looks none too happy! LOL I love all the cat pictures! I used to have cats but now have puppies - one of which was a rescue. Just breaks my heart to see all the pictures of animals at all the shelters that will be put down because no one will step up and take them home. My hat's off to anyone who'll open their doors to them!!!

okay, I really have a lot to learn I see. I didn't understand what half of that meant! LOL

Cades Cove is my absolute favorite place on the planet! My sister and I have a yearly pilgrimage there every February to celebrate the lives of our mom and my husband who both died on Valentine's Day two years apart. It is most definitely, in my mind, heaven on earth. I can't wait to get back there this year with my new Nikon. Thanks for sharing!

Done and done! I need all the help I can get! Thanks so much for all your help and those awesome photographs!

Thanks sinatraman - point taken and subscription ordered. It does help for me to see the way other people photograph - I've already started to look at things differently. Definitely going to be a learning curve, that's for sure. Thanks for all the suggestions.

Hello all! My name is Deb and I'm so happy to have found this forum. Ever since college, I've always wanted to learn photography - on my bucket list, as it were. :D Well, I finally decided that there's no time like the present so I bought the Nikon D5100 package from Costco and now I'm terrified to use it! :shock: I've signed up for a photography course that is to begin next week and I'm super stoked to start learning! I have so enjoyed looking at all the photos posted here and seeing the world thru all of your eyes. I think that's my greatest fear - that I won't have a photographic eye to create interested pictures. Here are my first two attempts using my new camera - of course, my girls! Molly is a year and a half old bagle (bassett/beagle cross) and Remy is a year and a half old terrier/poodle cross. I was blown away with the resolution of the photos - imagine what I can when I actually KNOW what I'm doing! LOL

Molly


Remy