I already am enjoying my new hobby, robertier—- especially since I figured out how to post. You all may be sorry!

Thanks for taking the time, Fred. If I get lucky and take a good or interesting photo I will try to post it.

Thank you, long shadow...I’ve got a lot to learn from people like you.

Thanks, James

Thank you, Daniel. I will try(I am not very good at this) to post some more as I improve...hopefully!

Hanks, alby—-have to give steady shot most of the credit.

Thank you,Bob. I’ve learned a lot on this forum from people like you...have a lot more to learn but not a lot of time.

I am a 92 year old neophyte photographer who recently developed an interest. About 3 months ago I bought a Sony RX10IV and am really enjoying trying to figure out all those modes and menus—- I think my learning curve has flatlined.

I am going to submit (if all goes well) a couple of shots I took last month of my saguaro during its brief blooming period. They are both jpegs right out of the camera except for cropping. The first is just a snapshot to show the cactus in bloom. The blossom in the second is from farther back standing on the ground in order to see into the face of the flower sticking out from the end of the arm. Both were hand held—-sun directly overhead. I am pretty sure I took both shots in auto mode (I was only a beginner then LOL).
The flower shot was taken from about 15 ft. 600mm then severely cropped. I was amazed at how sharp that funny red eyed fly looked when I could not even see it while standing on the ground.

An aside: I have since seen posts of that identical fly on flowers from as far away as Louisiana and even New Zealand. His little wings must be tired,and if I traveled that much my eyes would be red too!

Thanks, jay pat

thank you, justhercamera. I will post some of my shots as soon as I think think they won’t cause anyone to choke on their coffee.

About me:

After high school enlisted in the navy(1944-1946), Went to college(BS in civil engineering), got married to my college sweetheart, became a pipeline contractor( hence my title), had 4 great kids, an airplane, a boat on lake mead—-a great life! Now I’m 92 years old, my friends are all dead, my wife of 67 years passed away last year and my airplane and boat are long gone—-sometimes you live too long! UHH to the rescue! I stumbled on this site and have become really interested in photography. My previous experience was looking at pretty pictures and occasionally buying one of those cardboard cameras at the drug store
(remember those?) and snapping my own family portraits.
About 6 months ago I became so enthusiastic I bought a point and shoot pocket camera—-a Sony HX90V and my picture taking improved. This gave me GAS as you hogs call it. Now I’ve upgraded to a Sony RX10IV and a book by Alexander White. Thanks, also, to all you experts who are willing to share your knowledge with us newbies—-now I get up in the morning with something to look forward to.

ps: I don’t have a tripod yet. I don’t have a pp program other than Memories Home which came with the camera. I only have my old flip phone—-I’ll have to work on those things. I think I’m doing quite well learning the various modes and menus. From here on everything’s go!

Disregard