OMG that's adorable and I love the crop and colors!

Yeah, I just use the center. Focus on the point of importance and reframe, keeping your finger on that shutter button to keep the focus. Manual, of course. You know, if I have trouble figuring something out, Youtube has some great videos!

How fun! You should start a "Smashbook" which you can find on Amazon and give it to her when she's a senior! Smashbooks have cool pages and a pen with glue on the other end so it's all together. You can write a few memories down as you go...

Whew! I'm glad I didn't write it. It is food for thought, though!

I had some fun with Topaz plugins and my seniors loved it. I just used the trial version and the darned thing wouldn't come up until I clicked control, alt, and delete for the task manager and then clicked on the program from there. Strange. I had to leave the task manager open or it would close the whole program, PS, too.

Scary Obituary
In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the
University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the
Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: "A democracy is always
temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent
form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until
the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous
gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority
always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from
the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally
collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a
dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the
beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200
years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage."
The Obituary follows:

Born 1776, Died 2012
It doesn't hurt to read this several times.
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in
St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning
the last Presidential election:

Number of States won by: Obama: 19 McCain: 29
Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 McCain: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million McCain: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2 McCain: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory
McCain won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens
of the country.

Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low
income tenements and living off various forms of government
welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the
"complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of
democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population
already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million
criminal invaders called illegal's - and they vote - then we can say
goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message.

If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how
much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our
freedom..

This is scary!











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Love the comparison to the boombox! I think you are correct. The NEX-6 is plenty of camera for me!



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Love street photography. Am shy about asking people if I can photograph them. One homeless person came up to me and told me he was a photographer and asked if "that is one of those electric cameras"? I said yes and asked to take his picture. He was so worried about how he looked and just turned around and took off. I guess I know how to get rid of them anyway! ha!

Love it!

Try Photoshop Roadmap

Anybody want to share their senior pictures with me so I get some new ideas?

Thanks! But I want you to show me some of yours. Feel free to post them here...

I've been having the same problem in bright sun. Wondering where my filter is. Thought of that, but not hard enough to dig it out. Also, with the smaller aperature, your shutter speed will slow down and cause blur. That's where a tripod would help, but if you are like me, I don't care to crate those around much. Someone recently suggested that I raise the ISO which would speed up the shutter speed.

Thanks for sharing those first few moments with us! Babies are beautiful! I love the sayings. Never heard them before...