Related? Not sure. I think it's more than likely an aquired rather than an inherited condition.

Here are a few shots of our two cats. The one with the black nose in known around here as "The Cat From Hell"

I plan to try some other ideas with that lamp. I love the swirling patterns you can bring out from several different angles. The only lighting in that shot came from the lamp itself and it has a dimmer built in. I'm going to try turning it up so I can use a lower iso and higher F:stop to get rid of the noise and increase the depth of field.

Alaska, When I can get a complement from you it makes my day. thanks a lot!!

Oh my! Have you ever taken a bad picrure?

I DO like the first one!

Hand held!!! You must have a mighty steady hand. Were you able to brace against something solid?

I not only have the cricket, I have a cage for him I keep on a bookshelf. I'll take a picture of it and post it tomorow when I have some light.

Thanks. I've been fooling around with cameras for a long time so I should be able to dig up a few more. I really think I probably took better shots with my old Argus C3 back in the early 1950s than I do now. Back then you had to think a little more and since I was on Navy pay I couldn't afford to waste film with frivilous shots. I still have a couple of shoe boxes full of kodachrome ASA12 slides. I'll see if I can scan some of them for a post.

Thanks, I really like that lamp and I'll probably try out a few more ideas with it.

I rarely do anything P/P, but the first one is an exception. It's a setup table top shot. We have a mid-century Danish Modern lamp that is sitting near my front door that has a white shade with these wonderfull swirl patterns. Every time I walk in or out of the house I look at it and think "I'm sure there's an interesting picture there somewhere". Finally late one night (actually it was about 3:00am!) I decided to drag out a tripod and take a few shots of it and really liked a couple of them, but there was no point of interest. I had a small ornamental cricket and decided to put that into the lamp and shoot it again. That shot was a lot better, but it still didn't have the impact I was looking for so I used Picasa to turn the lamp orange. That got me what I wanted. It was taken with the Cannon SX110is apeture priority, auto focus auto shutter.

I rarely do anything P/P, but the first one is an exception. It's a setup table top shot. We have a mid-century Danish Modern lamp that is sitting near my front door that has a white shade with these wonderfull swirl patterns. Every time I walk in or out of the house I look at it and think "I'm sure there's an interesting picture there somewhere". Finally late one night (actually it was about 3:00am!) I decided to drag out a tripod and take a few shots of it and really liked a couple of them, but there was no point of interest. I had a small ornamental cricket and decided to put that into the lamp and shoot it again. That shot was a lot better, but it still didn't have the impact I was looking for so I used Picasa to turn the lamp orange. That got me what I wanted. It was taken with the Cannon SX110is apeture priority, auto focus auto shutter.

This is my first post. Don't even know if I've properly attatched the photos! If they come through let me know what you think.

I'm 78 years old, Lived in South Florida from 1945 till I retired and moved to Gainesville, Florida in 2000.

I've been interested in photography since my Navy days in the early 1950s. Started with a Kodak Pony 35mm and gradually worked my way through a variety of cameras such as Argus C3, Voightlander Vitessa (great little camera), Pratika SLR (bad idea), Minolta rangefinder, a couple of Olympus Pen film point & shoot, Minolta SRT101 SLR and a Minolta X100 SLR. I'm currently using a Sony DSC-D770, Cannon SureShot SD1100is and Cannon SureShot SX110is.

Since I retired and have a little more spare time on my hands I've gotten into the habbit of carrying a camera with me most of the time. I enjoy taking photos of things most people walk by and never seem to notice. Sometimes it's a macro shot of a flower or bug and other times it's just the way the sun hits a leaf or twig. Since I bought the Cannon SX110is I've spent some time sitting back from the crowd (hopefully un-noticed), shooting people with the long 10x telphoto lens.