I agree, I like the color one better. It really gives more definition to the different elements.

Wonderful series and the eagle with the fish is a great capture.

Beautiful series and so sharp.

Many years ago, I used to be an avid EBay user and had great results, but with the changes, I do not do business with EBay anymore, nor will I ever use Pay Pal. Those two businesses are run by Ebay and in my opinion have become very unreliable. The statistical event of you becoming a victim to their practices just is not worth it.

I agree with you and there are many like you who respect people's right to ownership of their photos. Just like in the real world the virtual world has its fair share of ripoff artists that will steal other people's work and pass it off as their own. On my flickr site many photographers whose work on the site, who put the copyright no copying or using without permission found their photos used on other sites. I found out that if it is on the web, whether you give permission or not, people will steal and use a photo and call it their own. Unfortunately it is a sad fact of life.

[quote=Photographer Jim]I maintain my own website. It functions as a point of sale for my work, but it's primary purpose is to provide the "professional web presence" expected by art festival promotors.[/qu

Your photos have the wow factor. But, I think you made the point quite well that is the aim of your postings and you acted accordingly.

They are all nice but I will go with number 6.

I have been a flickr user since 2006 and I use it for my best photos or something I want to show that could be made better. It meets my desire to share. I sometimes get some interesting comments from viewers. Just a few days ago, I had a viewer tell me that my Banana slugs are not Banana at all but an European invasive species. I posted those photos in 2010. The secret is, if you post where do you want the photos to go. I put my photos in creative commons license, which means that they have to credit me with the photo. I found out from one viewer that they found an uncredited photo of mine. that is a risk I take. How do you want the public to see your photos? do you only want friends and family or the public? That answer will determine which photo site you want to use.

I agree with this 1000 percent. That is one awesome shot and you were at the right place at the right time.

That is a beautiful series and I never get tired of seeing photos of eagles in flight. They are so majestic and you captured that so well.

What a gorgeous specimen. That is one beautiful photo.

I love your series and you did capture the elements quite successfully. the colors were brilliant. You are right, there is no no time for photo ops, all times are right and do are different situations. This proves it.

The colors on these birds are beautiful. I miss the variety of birds I used to see as a child growing up in the Philippines. The colors were so varied.

No, it will not. I have PSE10 and I loaded PSE12. When I want to use my PSE10, I just click on the logo and it will take me to PSE10 program. If I hit open in the thumbnail section of my photos, the program goes automatically to PSE12. I still have the choice of which progam to use.

I agree with you a hundred percent. I bought many a moon ago Kodak's B&W instant cameras as a lark and to experiment to see if I still got it. The answer was no. I got a lot of mixed results, and to say the least the common consensus, I needed to do more practice. Fair enough. Color is so easy and it takes practice to get B&W down to an art form. I loved it and if the finances were better, I would go there again. The fun is in the failures to get to the successes.