i'm from the country & was raised hunting. i feel that the anti-gunner's have already won enough legislation to achieve their goal. they're sneaky about it. make it where

I own one of the dreaded assault rifles. Same kind I carried when I was in Vietnam. I do not see any reason to own a hundred round magazine. That being said I suggest a ban on all guns. I'm sure the druggies, crooks, rapists and other bad guys will follow suit of the good guys and turn in their weapons? Nobody needs a gun these days with the police protection we have. Even if the response time of the police is on average about 4 to 5 minutes. That should give you sufficient time to politely ask an intruder to leave. While we're at it let's ban things like pitch forks, knives, billy clubs, ball bats, scissors and fertilizer. That stuff can be used to make a bomb. Countries like Britain, Australia and many more European and Middle Eastern countries basically took guns away from the honest citizen. Now their into car bombs, IED's and other weapons. Make no doubt about it the truth is, anybody who is intent on perpetrating harm on others will find a way with or without guns. If one honest citizen had been armed at the Aurora theater maybe the outcome would have been different. Thank you but I'll keep my guns even though I don't ever think I will have to use them, but just incase . . .

Thank you. I had hoped you would have the time to check these. I will be trying your suggestions this weekend.

My c&c would be that first...it's a good shot...a good moment...one to cherish.

On a more technical level; there are some slight issues.

The subject on the right is leaned at an unflattering angle; neck up...that's usually a no-no. From above or straight on is better.

The thing in the background (silver thing) is a bit distracting how it sprounts out of their heads. Better to have only the green background out of focus.

Other than that...I dont' know.


It might be good to shoot them from slightly above...that's a good stragety much of the time...stand on a stool and shoot down while they look up to you.

I must have been around 11-12 when I'd use my folks old Brownie with its 620 film. I remember cranking the knob to advance the film and looking through the little red lensed port on the back to line up the next exposure number. I raised chickens and sold eggs and used egg money to buy a black and white Swinger Polaroid when I was 13 (1969). Still got that thing, talk about cheaply built! I can't remember how much I gave for it though, would $40 sound right? That was a dandy, squeeze the shutter knob, line up the exposure marker, take the photo, pull it out, wait for however long you thought it needed to develop (temperature sensitive), peel it apart and if it was ok, you'd smear that gel goo on it with the applicator to fix it. And the picture quality was...well I won't go into that. But it was high tech, at least for me.

After that I'd sometimes play with my dad's Zeiss Ikon 35mm with quality that made the Swinger look pretty sorry. After I bought my first motorcycle, I took the old Brownie on a trip to New Orleans and decided I needed something better. I bought a camera (can't remember the name) that used 120 (or was it 126) film which was decent, but within a year (1976) I bought a Vivitar 220SL 35mm. Good camera and hauled it all over the US and parts of Canada and Mexico on the bike until it started leaking light in 2007. Shortly before happened that I liberated an old and unused Honeywell Pentax SP500 (think that's the number) from work. Older than the Vivitar but smoother and quieter operating. By that time I also had a Kodak 2.2 mp digital fixed focus camera I'd tote along on trips. It got soaked in a Texas torrential downpour and the screen went black, but setting overnight on the air conditioner dried things out enough to work again.

After the Vivitar sprung a leak, I bought a used Fuji 5100 4mp digital, still carry it along on bike trips for on the fly shots. My kids got me the Nikon D40 DSLR for Christmas 2008. For functionality, features and bike trip use, it has been the most versatile camera I've owned with the best quality (and most fun to use).

Cameras are objects that are like a pair of shoes; some are adequate and functional, but that's it. You never really get attached to them while others just seem to feel right, do whatever you need of them and you are just comfortable with. When it's shoes, you polish them up, get them resoled and keep on chugging. I guess that's why you see people stil using those ancient Leicas, they just feel right.

Peter Hurley is the name of the guy and he is marketing a two day headshot intensive workshop for $1500.