Then why do you say Israel has overacted? What should they have done?

Look what we did after 9 11. We shoild be supporting Israels right to defend themselves.

What have any of our allies done for us? Look at the Ukraine conflict for example our allies are not supporting Ukraine to help us. They are supporting Ukraine because it is in their best interest to do so. Allies are allies because they have common enemies and or common goals. Would you rather we ally with Iran where people regularly shout death th the little satan and death to the big satan?

Well you are siding with terrorists over Israel what would a logical person conclude that makes you?

You really dont get it do you. If they allow Palestinians to go back north then Hamas will go back north too.

Until Hamas is totally destroyed they cant let Palestinians go back north.

Ask yourself this one question, if the Palestinian people are not bad but only their leadership tjen why do both Jordan and Egypt reduse to take them?

I repeat more than 70 percent of the Palastinians v**ed for Hamas and they still support them. That and the aboxe question should tell you all yoi need to know.

You seem to forget that Israel is smaller than New Jersey and have taken constant daily rocket attacks for years. Blaming a nation where Germany tried to erradicate the entire race and no one wanted them for fighting for their survival is just plain nuts.

They are an ally. You think Ukraine ia an ally because they are fighting Russia. Well Israel is fighting both Hamas and Iran so that makes them our ally..

I appreciate your oppinion. Historically I would agree with you about stacking tcs but Nikon says that you can sta k the vuilt in tcs on both their 400 and their 600 S lenses.

As to not hand holding thats great. Only thing is a huge number of sports photographers I know hand hold, so its what I'm used to.

You raise some interesting points.

First he didnt get a gun, he got a compound bow. Bow hunting is big here.

Second no one got shot, he missed when he shot at the police when he came out and two officers tackled him.

Third what caused his mental break was he was being evicted from his home even though he was currwnt on his rent.

Fourth it turns out that hos family had come in to try to get the paper to do a story a couple weeks earlier about both his upcoming eviction and his mental illness.

That makes things a little different. My photos are of him drawing and firing the bow as two officers who were on each side of the door tackled him.

Thing is I think they might have made the right choice if it helped even one other family with mental illness.

As to shopping photos around there isnt a very big market around here and no one else even ran the story of the police arresting him.

One of the things I have learned is that photographing crimes and accidents is not always appreciated and it is not always cut and dried what should or should not go in print.

I asked you what Israel should do and you said I don't know, so I will trust that Israeli leadershilis doing their best.

You keep ignorring that Hamas hides amongst women and children. Thats on Hamas not Israel.

I support eradicating terrorists especially those who rape and tortue women and children. If there are civilian casualties thats to bad, especially since the Palestinians continue to support Hamas. If the Palestinians really wanted peace and prosperity they would help Israel root out terrorism instead of participating in it.

I feel very sorry for the small group of Palestinian Christians because they are being hirt by both sides, but the rest of Palestine this is all on them.

Thanks for the comments. I think you are probably right on the money with your comments. I did remove a cattail, and I probably miss focus by small amounts regularily because my eyesigjt isnt what ot once was and we are not working with a lot of depth of foeld.

I dont own Topaz but thanks.

I have the 70-200 2.8 s lens and the 400 f2.8, plus I have a Sigma 150-600 sport kens. All have better feet than the one you showed. I would probably either not buy that kens or buy an after markwt foot because I agree with you, there is no excuse for that foot.

Could be. Not sure I would want that job. About 7 years ago I soent 3 hours under a car because I was sent to shoot a police stand off with an armwd subject and that was the only place I could find where i was behind the police barracades but still in sight. I'm sure if they had seen me they would have made me move. Anyway I got the shots and then the family of the individual came into the paper to discuss his mental illness and what ked to his mental break and they chose to run a news story and a feature story about mentall illnesss without the photos i took. Instead they had me go with a news reporter to shoot the family whe they talked to them about mental illness. On the one had I was glad because I certainly didn't want to imbarrass the individual, who it turned out I knew, but on the other hand they would have been award winning photos.

You could be right about the focus. Manual focus wouldn't help as the photos are cropped and Im doing good just to get a focus point on the birds.

I know that the bird photographers here spend a lot of time and energy getting their photos. I did not. I shot these specifically because of an earlier discussion about converters and I wanted to here from both sides. I have found the conversation to be interesting and possibly informative. I went to a location deliberately where it is impossibke to get close to the birds because of fencing and water. It is a man made wildlife refuge that is a series of ten holding ponds created to take treated sewage water and allow it to settle even further before the water retuens to a river. They have planted natural grasses and other plants that attract birds have about 10 miles of hiking trails around the ponds. Over the past 6 or 7 years they have started getting more and more species of birds. I go out there for exercise and take my camera along just in case. Last week I just decided to do this because of the converter discussion. Onky way to shoot heee is go really big or crop like crazy, cant set up blinds and ecen if you did someone with a dog or with kittle kids on bikes willbcome aroundbthe pavedbportiin of the trails and spook any birds that got even close to the trails, so its great for hiking and bird watching, but not for bird photography, making it a perfect location to try out teleconverters.

That is totally bogus. The deal they entered into delayed Iran for 10 years but got rid of the sanctions so at the end of the 10 years they could go back to work on their nuclear program but now with more money.

Thebother countries involved wanted Irans oil and didn't care what happened later.

Obama did the typical lefty thing kick the can down the road so that the problem doesn't happen while they are in power and they can blame it on someone else later instead of fixing the probelm to begin with. Go back and look at all tje stories from when the original deal was made and look at all tje articles warning about what was going to happen later.

Hamas, who do you think I was talking about. It is Hamas that is building their infrastructure under and in schools and hospitals and it is Hamas that is hiding behind women and children. DUH!