Tips to improve please.

Hello.
There are some tripods that also have a thread at the BOTTOM of the main tube so you can get really low down. Of course the images are taken upside down but why does that matter? There was an English photographer who took a series of B&W portraits of trees in winter and printed them upside down. Stunning. A way of altering the way we think about trees and photography. Will leave technical advice to others more knowledgeable than I.

Every Sunday. Next to Santa Monica Pier a tribute is raised to those U.S. personnel killed in Iraq/Afghanistan. Very Sad. Very moving. Very heartbreaking. A really strange juxtaposition between honouring the dead and those that don't notice.
Comments to improve photos much appreciated.

Seems like an appropriate test/starter/opening image.

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