I hear you loud and clear, I'been trying to stay away for years now, but I keep going back($) and back again ($$$)

Beautiful picture and story as well!!!!!

Hi, my name is Stephan Peters, I grew up in Hamburg Germany, but now live in beautiful Idaho. I've been lurking around a few days now and I think it's time to introduce myself. I have only been on one other forum so far, (Elements Village) and fell in love with it and the people on that forum, I thought it must be the best place on the net. Like I said, I've been checking in for a few days now and I really like this one too, looks like an excellent place to throw out the anker for a while. I enjoyed taking pictures for a long time -in the late 70's early 80's I was shooting with a Nikon F2 (a camera I still miss to this day). Nowadays I'm shooting Canon and went digital about a little over five years ago (very reluctantly). I still shoot a lot with film as well. I also used to do a lot of movie shooting ( 8mm & 16mm) still have a movie camera, but don't use it hardly anymore, because it has gotten sooo expensive to run.