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Ok, I get it now . Sorry that I didn't get in on the beginning of the story ! Her deep blue eyes should look nicely in a scarlet and gray team shirt next Saturday when the Buckeyes play their season opening game with Bowling Green! If I am not mistaken, you are an OSU Buckeye football fan, are you not ?

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Beautiful child with equally beautiful eyes with uniquely rare coloring. Is the color for real or are you providing it in post processing ? Whether you are or not, her eyes are astonishingly beautiful !

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Angler, Topaz is excellent software to use and it can be seen that you are beginning to have fun with it. Once you really get to familiarize yourself with it, I hope that you will begin to approach making exceptional high quality images with it as does our friend, Treepusher. Everything Treepusher does with his post processing software is very artful and of exceptional quality, however; please don't use your Topaz software to go in the direction that Bob's friend, Snap Shot, has gone with his by fooling around with cookie cutter flower photographs that are nothing but flower shop flowers that have been arranged in a vase ! Enough of them is enough and, sometimes, for a fellow, too effeminate. Just sayin'...

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Vignetting is something that I have used with just about every photograph that I've ever made and I even create vignetting with darker pigments when painting on canvas with oils. To me, a vignette is something used to contain or to frame main points of interest within one's artwork and with most of us, that artwork would be our photographs. Without vignetting, a viewing person's attention could easily wander outside the boundaries of a photograph or a painting when looking at them, however; when vignetting is used, it becomes a constraint that keeps one's attention at bay and held within the boundaries of the photograph or the painting.

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I Will agree with you ~> Sigma's Art series lenses are awesome! My arsenal includes a few and it must be said that Sigma's art series lenses produce beautiful results across all spectrums and they are also built like a tank. Sigma does not cut corners when it comes to putting quality into their Art series lenses and I will even go on to say that they surpass the quality of many Nikkor lenses and Canon L series lenses that I have.

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'Tis a beautiful little fella.. He looks rather sad, though ? Nice job !

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Mohammed, you wouldn't think the Hummingbird Moth to be so magnificent when it is in its larvae stage eating your tomato plants ! However; you have done a great job photographing this one and I like them all very much !

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Nicely done ! I see that you cropped it exactly where I had suggested for you to crop it yesterday. Now, if you can superimpose a doe and fawn like I had suggested to you yesterday, you would be adding "life" into the photograph making it a definite award winning photograph in many salon exhibitions ! Good job!!!!!

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Well done, Bill.. The subtle blend of the muted pastel colors in the background really add a special touch to the entire scene which makes your photograph quite deserving of being matted, framed, and hanging in a gallery somewhere !

Have a good one,
~ Doug ~

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Very nice photos, Jim. They remind me of a section of the upper shoreline of Lake Huron known as McGregor Bay, Ontario, which was a favorite Northern Pike fishing spot of mine several years ago. McGregor Bay is not far from Sudbury, Ontario and it is complimented with a strata of Granite that can be semi-mountainous as far as terrain goes. Your photos make me homesick and wanting to go fishing again!

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Yes, it is possible to see tinning taking place within a lens assembly, but not upon the glass elements themselves. Being that you sent your lens into Nikon twice, I am certain that if tinning was visible within your lens, a Nikon technician would had whisked it away with high heat and some pressurized air. As far as the lens being repairable if any tinning was present within its circuitry, I would have to say, "yes" or otherwise, the lens would not function at all. To conclude, I should think that you needn't have any concern or concerns about a tinning process taking place within your lens because if it were to be present, the optical quality of your lens would suffer ~ meaning: It would no longer work in conjunction with your camera's circuitry. Hopefully, this answers your questions.

Have a good day,
~ Doug ~

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If you will look at your photograph again, please notice the cluster of trees that come into the scene from the right side of the photograph. Near the top of the photo, follow the growth of these trees inward. Then, you will notice a small gap or strip without any tree growth. The gap is small, but as you continue looking inward, from right to left, you will see tree growth appear again which is growth (leaves and branches) from the main tree which is the same tree that is in the center of your photograph.. Ok, now go back to the gap. At this point, I would vertically crop your photograph and eliminate everything from the center of the gap all the way to the right edge of the scene (the photograph). Once you do this, the main tree is no longer in the center of the photograph. Now, look at the open space or grass that is located to the left of the large tree. In this area, I would Photoshop (superimpose) a doe and fawn feeding upon the grass. Once you do this, you will end up with a new scene that has life in it (the doe and fawn which make the photo interesting) and you will also have a scene having a semblance of composition much like that of the rule of thirds.

Bob's suggestion about Mnt Man's suggestion was a good suggestion, but I am surprised that Bob didn't first get with his buddy, Snap Shot, and both suggest that you lay one of Snap Shot's flower shop, cookie cutter, arranged bouquet of Topaz post processed flowers at the base of the tree!

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Ron, cameras don't have to be like wives. You do know that, don't you? What I am trying to say is there is no law that says it is illegal to have more than one camera at the same time. As you already know, most civilized societies have laws on the books that prevent a man from having more than one wife at the same time, but many men in all societies would still like to have more than one woman in their lives at the same time. It's the same for cameras too! So, being that we have no laws that deny a man more than one camera at the same time, I suggest that you purchase both the Canon EOS 80D and the Nikon D7200 AND have yourself a ball! Then, as time marches on whereby one day you decide you like one better than the other, divorce yourself from it, sell it, put some money back into your pockets, and move on!

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Terrific work ! I really love #1 and it is so very artistic of you for having composed it in such a way whereby you chopped off the bird's legs. Then, it was really special how just beneath the bird's eye you composed the bird's jaw muscle so that it would be right smack dab in the center of the photo.. I would have to say that composition is your forte ! You must have had art training somewhere, didn't you ? !!!! Lastly, the background is perfect for how it depicts that trailer park looking, mobile home style, vertical siding ! What a special touch ! Would you consider selling a copy of the photo because I would love to have it matted, framed, and then hang it on display on the inside of our outhouse's door ! It would go perfectly out there ! Just think how special it would be for someone to be sitting there in our outhouse doing their business while enjoying themselves looking at your crackle ! Name your price and then add a few extra bucks for postage because I want to pay for everything !

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Let's see if I understand you correctly, ok ? Hmmm, so you believe everything that your mother tells you ? Well, let's suppose that one day you and a friend are walking about at a local zoo and as you are walking in the center of the midway, a mahout with his elephant comes walking by and when you step too close to the elephant, it stops walking, but comes to a rest standing upon your foot. No one knows this nor sees this but you, mainly because of the excruciating pain you are experiencing in your foot. Now, at this point, do you say something or do you keep your pie hole shut just as you mother had taught you ?

Now, back to the photograph in question. Yes, you are correct, the OP merely was asking what kind of bird it was in the photograph, but those who commented by saying, "GREAT SHOT" seem to have an automatic reply button on their computer keyboard which sends "GREAT SHOT" to every Tom, Dick, and Harry on planet earth no matter how lousy their photographs are ! Yet, I do agree with you about what your mother had told you because the phony flattering fools who send "GREAT SHOT" to every Tom, Dick, and Harry who posts a photograph really should take your mother's advice, but if they feel as though they must say something, they should first contact your mother and ask her if it is ok to say something, that is, if the something they want to say, this time around, is the truth !

Love you, keep hope alive, and have a great day !