That one irks me, too. It's sort of like the Spanish "de nada", I guess. I do like the Chick Fil-A response "My pleasure" though.

Only if they are watching classy TV programs. Even the newscasters use trashy English now.

Fantastic shot! The reflection really makes it special.

Fine shots! I've been there and you caught it very well.

I have a similar photo from Artists' Point taken in 2009. Your photo is excellent!

Excellent photos! I had no idea what those wheels were for.

Congratulations, Ken! I definitely know the feeling. I, too am an amateur photographer who takes a lot of photos, and I've had several get published one way or another. I wasn't always asked for permission, but support the project so didn't mind. One of my photos of a bridge in Bratislava was published in a travel brochure--they did ask my permission, but no payment was offered. (I accepted.) And one of my photos has been immortalized in a stone monument at the USAF museum in Dayton, Ohio. I hadn't known it was being considered, but it was a great honor and I'm proud it is there.

Enjoy your time in the limelight. It's not always about money. And if your name is associated with the photo, that is even more rewarding. (Only 1 of my 3 published had attribution, but that's OK--the folks who care know whose photo it is.)

When on a tour I average about 100-150 shots a day. Terrible ones are deleted in the camera. When I get home I get rid of the totally useless ones (blank sky, feet, or so blurry they are unrecognizable). The rest get imported into Lightroom and I process them. More will be removed from the catalog during this activity (duplicates, and unrecognizable). I then go back through the processed photos and decide which ones I want to upload to Flickr, maybe 2/3 of them (I keep a lot of unremarkable photos to act as memory joggers--I am, after all, immortalizing my trip). The upload to Flickr also organized the photos into Albums. Sometimes I decide to post photos from Flickr to UHH, and I try to pick representative ones of reasonable quality for that purpose. I am aware that UHH has limits on how many images to post in a Topic, and I do attempt to follow them. However, since I'm only posting links to the photos, I allow myself to exceed the number sometimes, and the management seems to allow it.

All the photos that survive the initial triage stay resident in my external drive. The LR edit files are also stored there. The external drive currently contains almost 130,000 images in about 2200 folders (typically organized by day of tour).

My Flickr photos are initially organized into Albums, and those are then organized into Collections of related Albums, and Collections of related Collections--the hierarchy has occasionally reached 5 levels. (I like the hierarchical structure available in Flickr.)

You're very welcome. Thanks for coming and the nice comment.

Mike, they are repeats of former posts. I do this to give the folks who visit the Christian section an opportunity to view my Topics.

Hi, Doub! Thanks for coming. From what you wrote I'd guess you viewed several of the churches. I've also sent a PM.

So do I. I was taught in typing class to double space after a sentence-ending period. It is the way to specify an "em space" instead of the "en space" used between words. I also use a double hyphen "--" to mean and em dash.

And the creation of new verbs from nouns that were originally formed from verts. Like "Coronate" when "Crown" is the root verb. There are many examples of this process, using the derived verb from the noun form instead of the base original verb.

The 2nd shot is the ONE!

Great moody shot!