I like the one that was a picture like this one, but it included the neighbor who put a string of lights on his roof saying "ditto" with an appropriate arrow.

Closure is for the living, as said much earlier. A animal vet said that when a family pet dies, everyone should has a chance to pay their or it's respect. One farmer who always had a lot dogs and cats about, would let the dead animal lay about for a day. One of the dogs did not get along with one of the other dogs, so after all the dogs and cats dropped by on their own time the one that did not get along well, dropped and "urinated" on the newly deceased and walked away. (supposedly a true story to learn by)
Remind me not to have a open grave service, but in any case we all need closure.

Ya I knowd what ya mean by dat, dar all sorts of usses folks like dat, not matters where ya go, saw keep smiling enjoy life as its present self, ya?

I happen to like Bill and Hillary, respect much of what they have done...Funny as ah, heck, ya heck. Good start with the morning coffee.

Do not know who asked the question (Aquadiver?) but the responses are very pleasing to the eye and the mind. Served in the Army: One year Thailand and one year VN mid 60s, two years Ft Hood and in various supply schools, often getting these days confused as to where and when and what happen where and when. But the pleasure of seeing the responses, not just from the VN time and place but also so many others. (Did you know that there is still one person who is drawing benefits from the Civil War-an elderly lady who apparently married late in life to a Civil War Vet). May all enjoy knowing that there is thread in life touching all of us, even when we are not aware of it. Thanks for the question, thanks for the responses, thanks to UHH for the opportunity to share so much with so many.

Saigon PX, ?65. Topcon. Noticed it was selling for about $40.00. Now I had been drooling over it for several weeks, but then it was $400 +, so I called over the PX manager and quizzed him why the difference in price. The surprised look and near panic obviously told a story that one of the Thai clerks and missed placed the . and was off by one costly decimal point. He now understood why he had been selling so many. I asked if I could still buy it at the 'as marked price' to which I got only a 'you gotta be kidding'looking. Well, I bought it and a few lenses, rolls of film. I also just discovered that the battery that powers the light meter is still working as is the camera. Now I need to shoot the last few frames and see what I was shooting back a couple of decades ago. Thanks for jostling my memories...

maybe it was really a Cannon and not a Canon.

Have not read 10 pages of comments, what I read is having a camera that will allow one to set up a variation of shots that the camera will take with just one push of the shutter button. One now will get a series of shot, in motion, but each is a high definition of what one would have taken, one at a time manually changing the scene each time. The child's smile, the dog on the slide, sunset with clouds. One could set a series of shots that give you a strikingly clear but varied change in contrast, different focuses on the same action shot, with changing aspects. Thinking creatively look how many variation could be built into a single press of a shutter during a moving subject and each being the kind of shot you might have wanted if you would sit at your photo editor machine, only now it is as though you planned each shot-which is exactly what you had done.

Look at the cameras now that allows one to take a picture which now allows the VIEWER to change the point of focus after the pictures has been taken.

I certainly can see how this added clarity to each frame adds to ones creativity, adding one more complication that the younger minds in "still" photography can apply. It is not video photography replacing still, but adding a dimension to the already very large and sometimes overwhelming choices we have now in bridge and DSLR cameras.

How about adding voice commands to the camera so that as one is holding the camera on target, you command more contrast, more ISO, Less... and the camera makes the changes at that instance and you do not lose contact with your imagination and visualization.

There is so much more that the camera can do and the camera developers have barely started to break away from the pinhole camera of our ancestors or maybe even some of our present day creative photographers. How about the camera that shoots around corners?

I assume you weren't in the fridge at the time.

YOU typed all that?hope you had fast fingers, but then again beer and fridge do go together, but where do the cat come into all this.

Then 'm glad you weren't the pilot-

Obviously a man who has spent a lot of time in the workshop medicine cabinet, going through boxes of bandages and healing ointment. Having asked his young son to get him a screw driver and son asks a "daddy one or a mommy one?". While still high on the ladder and puzzled he says "the mommy one". Amazing how well a butter knife works.

I use the digital zoom often as it allows to me see in detail things that I might not recognize otherwise. It is like having a powerful telescope. Even when I shoot the shot and do some digital editing I can still get a very usable picture. Enjoy

Working in an art gallery. Need to make an inventory of art owned by the gallery as well as old pics of art no longer wanted by the artists. Most of the pictures are glass covered thus highly reflective, how do I shoot them minimizing reflections of light around and about?

Hi Erv,
Type in RUSSIAN MOON PHOTO and then sort through a lot of different ones. You can spot the shot of the BACK of the moon, which is totally unlike the side that we see. I will try to paste what I have, Elmers often doesn't work.
Keep shooting...
gary
ok THAT pasting didn't work.

C:\Users\Owner\Picasa Export\Pictures\Lunar shots\russian shoots the other side.jpg

Just to show the difference between this side of the moon and side we never see unless we are astronauts. It is hard to not look at pics of our moon. Nice shot Erv.
Sorry address did not work. Back to drawing board.