Taken at Bonneyville Mill, outside of Middlebury, IN, on a weekend with many Amish relaxing.
They do not like to get their picture taken, so this was a very opportune shot:
I had just pulled up and gotten out of my car when this mom walked by with her brood.
I hurried and snapped a shot, and - OMG!!! - it was perfect

A neighbor had their whole family in for Thanksgiving and wanted me to take their photos, different sets of people, etc. I told her I don't do people, but they insisted.

After some pp, I think the photos came out pretty good and so do they. I then had some 4x6 photos printed at CVS and had them pick out what they wanted.

Well, they do not want the glossy finish. So I went to MPIX which I've seen mentioned here a number of times. I had a chat session and wanted to find out about their finish. This is what they said, '...we have the standard semi gloss that would have a sheen but it is not glossy, or we have a deep matte giclee that would have no sheen at all..."

In your opinion, will MPIX's standard finish (semi gloss) be what my neighbor wants?

As an aside, the one photo of the whole family (of course that one) I screwed up and didn't leave enough space on the sides for an 8x10 that they want, but I can do an 8x12.

I was on a boat tour in the Kenai Fjords National Park just taking in all the sights and the captain comes on the speaker saying she, yes she, just spotted a black bear swimming way out in front of our boat. She said it was rather unusual and not something she sees every day. Now, how true is that? I often wondered just how rare some of our sightings really were as I think if they make it sound like our boat trip was the best of the year the tips might be bigger.... but I must say I was surprised to see this bear even thinking of such a long swim. He was headed from one land mass to another that was well over a mile away. I'm bad a distance, but I'm guessing it was several miles away. Anyway, here is the long distance swimmer, or not.