Nope, it's a Chestnut backed Chickadee. They provide entertainment all summer for my cats (who are terrified to go outside-they watch from the window)

The sky is what makes the picture in #1. Very good eye.

This is why I love my SX30. Took this a few minutes ago-you can see the details of this guy's 'fur' (i don't know what the fine feathers are called)

Are you looking at me?

Yep, It seems that most all the other sailors had trouble pronouncing Aerographer so they called us weather guessers (among other reasons ;) )

OMG! How much is a print?

I took one of those trips when I lived in Hawaii in the `80's. It was the coolest "tourist rides" I've ever been on. Unfortunately, I forgot to bring my camera.

You'd be surprised at how large you can enlarge a 'small' megapixel image and still have it acceptable. I have an 18x24 print of Mt. Hood (Oregon) hanging on my wall taken with a 6mp camera, and it looks great. The thing to remember is that people don't stand as close to an enlargement as they do to a 4x6.
Someone several months ago stated that one of her photographs from a less than 10mpx camera had been enlarged to wall size and placed in a public place (I don't remember if it was a college or mall or whatever). Since people stand so that they can take in the whole picture no one noticed that it wasn't done with a super mega pixel camera.

I have since looked a mega pixel numbers as an indication of how much cropping the image will bear. (It's always better to 'crop' before you shoot anyway)

It depends on what you are used to-I find the MAC totally confusing. And besides it is so designed that I can't fix it myself when it 'breaks.' So are windows laptops, which frustrates me to no end.

With a desktop PC, with the exception of the motherboard, if something 'breaks' I can fix it myself.

If my memory serves me correctly, Kodachrome was the only truly archival quality color film produced.

What film were you using (if you remember)? The color is still excellent, no sign of aging whatsoever.

Another try. The waterfall 'recedes' into the background a bit more.

Do you mean something like this?

Now that I look at the two this is actually a better composition. The eye is drawn to the "faeries" more than in the original.

When I got home. I was having a real hard time with the sun, I wanted to get it just behind the cliff but the light was so strong it kept throwing off the color balance in my camera-I had one picture come out an ungodly shade of green.

This one was shutter priority (or manual I can't remember for sure), 1/30th, f7.1, ISO 80, 35mm focal length equivalent of 29mm.

I know this is just lens flare but with a bit of imagination you could say that I photographed faeries at Latourel Falls in the Columbia River Gorge today.

Faeries!!

Once the PC is more than two years old if the mother board dies (It has happened to me twice) then it winds up just as expensive replacing it as buying a new pc (that has more memory, storage etc.)

But to the question at hand. With photography, make sure you get LOTS of storage of space and LOTS of memory. The more you have of each the faster the computer is going to process your edits. (My first PC was an IBM PCjr in 1983 and I've learned via the school of hard knocks).

The one thing that I've learned is that my prints (whether sent out or printed on my printer) don't have the same color cast as on my monitor when viewing them in artificial light. If I take them outside in the sunshine, then they look like what's on my monitor. So don't be too disappointed at the difference)