While riding my bicycle through a local cemetery, I came across an entire section with mostly Asian grave markers and monuments. They seemed to be worthy of a trip back there with my camera. I am struck by the ornate beauty of the gravesites.

Another site for used books: www.paperbackswap.com. Despite the name, it's a source for paperbacks, hard cover, audio books on cassette and CD, large print books. They also have companion sites for CD and DVD swapping. You can offer up books, CDs and DVDs on the respective sites, and if anyone claims an item, you get a credit which can be used on any of the sites. I've sent out dozens of CDs and used the credits to get books.

Thanks Sky.

I think one of the best pieces of advice about photography I ever received was to make the best of the opportunity you're given. I try to apply it to any situation.

Clouds? Shoot anyway and see what you get. While they're the bane of an astronomer's and astrophotographer's existance, take the pic anyway. You and other's might be pleased with the results.

At my normal bedtime, around the time that the eclipse was beginning, the sky was totally clouded over. After checking weather.com for the maps, I went to bed satisfied that I wasn't gonna miss anything. However, around 12:30am my wife woke me up to say that the moon was visible and red.

Got these shots when the clouds thinned out. SOOC.

Canon Rebel T6 on tripod with 70-300 telephoto at 300mm.

The first is a little after totality. Exposure: f/5.6, 4 seconds, ISO 1600

The second is when the earth's shadow covered a bit less than half of the moon's disk. Exposure: f/5.6, 2 seconds, ISO 800.

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No. When you copy files to your local (on YOUR hard drive) DropBox folder, they get synced to the cloud. This happens as soon as you make any changes to your local DropBox folder (add, delete or modify files) as long as you are connected to the internet.

Sending a link will allow anyone with that link to fetch the files from the cloud. If you are syncing a large bunch of files, you should allow time for the files to be copied to the cloud. If you are connected to the internet with WiFi, it takes roughly 10-20 times longer than if you are connected with an ethernet cable.

If you put your mouse pointer on the little DropBox icon in the system tray (the area on the extreme right end of the task bar near the time/date) it will tell you whether files are still syncing or whether the cloud is up to date with your local DropBox folder.

Huh? More info?

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Caught the pair peeking through the tree early Saturday morning.

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Extensions for Chrome (found in the Chrome Store) will work on ANY Chomium-based browser, such as Edge, Opera, Vivaldi and others.

You can also find extensions for your browser by looking in the settings under Extensions there will usually be a link to add extensions. There you can search for "EXIF" and add to the browser to show you the info.

There is a utility built into Windows called STEPS RECORDER. Perfect for recording a tutorial. I think it's been in Windows at least since Windows 7.

Thanks Bill.

And then there is Adobe Creative Cloud Express. Anyone have any experience with this? How does it compare with the downloadable app?

Another website for sending large amounts of data (photos or any other kind) is www.WeTransfer.com. You can send up to 2Gb in one transfer, it's free and there is no limit to how many 2Gb transfers you do.

A standard CD-R will hold 700Mb of data. A standard DVD-R will hold 4.35Gb of data, and a double-layer DVD-R will hold 8.5Gb of data.

When I had the first eye done, I noticed that blue bottles on my neighbor's window sill were strikingly blue. If I closed the eye that was recently corrected, the bottles looked green.