I just returned from France and saw a great monument to the past called the Pont de Gard.
Its primary role was not as a bridge (not to be confused with Pont d'Avignon on the Rhone) but as an aqueduct.
It was built by the Romans to convey water to Nimes. It ran for 30 miles, took 20 years to build and was used for 500 years (until the decline of Rome). Where it crosses the Gard River in these pictures it is about 150 feet high.

I just returned from France and saw a great monument to the past called the Pont de Gard.
Its primary role was not as a bridge (not to be confused with Pont d'Avignon on the Rhone) but as an aqueduct.
It was built by the Romans to convey water to Nimes. It ran for 30 miles, took 20 years to build and was used for 500 years (until the decline of Rome). Where it crosses the Gard River in these pictures it is about 150 feet high.

Depends upon your needs. A friend is very happy with the Lumix waterproof but uses it only down to 30 ft. It takes good shots and is very compact compared with using a housing for greater depths.

Using Win7 Explorer on a batch of recently taken shots I see the actual date they were taken, not the date they were moved to the computer.

There must be something wrong in the program you used to move them.

I moved mine using Explorer. The SD card was seen as one drive and the destination was a folder on another drive and I just copied the photos.

I suggest you take several shots of the same thing using different exposures. Maybe your camera will do bracketing.
The idea is to have a wider choice.

I too appreciate the repost.
No.1 had me puzzled because the bottom edge was unclear to me, but the enlarged version is great.

newsgroups can be read using some email readers. you need to look for a tab or entry for newsgroups.

not all isps will carry these groups. some have stopped because they are not popular.

If your isp has them they would typically be on a different server than the email. your mail server might be called mail.zzz.com and the news server would be news.zzz.com.

If your isp does not carry them, look for a separate subscription service that does. might cost $15/mo.; it depends on how much stuff you download.

my isp carries about 50,000 newsgroups and I use a newsgroup reader called newsbin pro.
you can find it at

www.newsbin.com/

another company that has a free reader is
www.forteinc.com/agent/

a nice feature of having access to newsgroups is the wide range of topics covered. there are text file groups (where people exchange messages), picture groups (where jpeg and images are found) and binary groups (which have files like mp3 music files, avi movie files, etc).

you can get a preview of this by looking for google groups.

let me know if you need more help.

I don't know if you're aware of the "newsgroups" on the internet (an obscure area), but the one called "alt.binaries.ebook.technical" has copies of this magazine in PDF format.
If you're interested and need to know more, just post a response.

Its a beautiful shot. I'd have shot several more as the sun rose.

Hard drives are cheap enough so you can afford to back up more than once. Having 2 or 3 copies will lower the odds of losing the files and you would have the ability to make fresh paper copies if you need them.
Printing takes too much time and space and burning disks is also time-consuming.
With a hard-rive copy you can walk away from a 30GB copy and come back to it when its done.

Some nice shots but difficult to view. I tried several ways and sometimes got a blank screen, sometimes had a problem navigating to next picture or getting a large enough picture to appreciate.

If you get many comments about site problems, I'd move my shots elsewhere; they are too good to be hampered by an awkward site.

A good card need not have a S/N. After a recent discussion here I found the program H2testw_1.4 on the web and used it.

You put a memory card in a reader attached to your computer and the program fills it with data, then verifies it. I did it for an 8GB card and took nearly 30 min.

The card was OK and the 30 min. meant nothing because I was doing other things on the computer. When it was done I deleted the files the program put on the card.

I tested the card in the camera by taking a few shots and noted that the camera tells me there is room for 1574 pictures on the card. This comes out to about 5.2 mb per shot which sounds right for 10 megapixel pictures.

that's what electronic photo frames do. you can insert your camera's memory card and view the pictures.
tigerdircet has some good ones with high resolution for about $70.00 or less.

I like 1 and 3 because they introduce color to an otherwise bland shot.

Here is a quickly done crop.