crikey! Ya look full growed and ready for prime time on my monitor. Nice shots.

Thank you, and you're right, looking back I can see a lot of what you're saying. Being my first roll of Velvia, I didn't know what was about to take place with the contrast. How do you feel about the reflection I've just included below?

Hey, wait a minute RFranko, this here town ain't big enough for both of us. Nice shot of the Garden. And you're sure right, quality subject matter abounds. I actually tried to have a "coffee table" book published a few years back and was told by the local publisher that, "they already had two books in the hopper for that year and wouldn't be interested in any more in a soft economy." One of the books they did publish stole most of my thunder as it turned out - the one that was the brainchild of one of the publishing partners. I wandered off, tail between my legs, and haven't tried again since.

Alanna, let me refer you to every photographer's potential best friend when it comes to a reviews of equipment and comparisons that allow you to decide for yourself without respect to any one individual's experience and recommendation. Go to and read about the various equipment currently available at luminous-landscape.com/reviews/

In the box with what resembles the alphabet in it, click on the "C" for Canon. You'll find some amazing help there and good luck.

Thank you for that contribution. Good thinking. I have a manfrotto ball head attached to that end also which gives me a little more flexibility than merely screwing my camera on there. I can even get portrait oriented shots from there. I have an older el cheapo tripod whereupon the mounting pole is reversible which allows me to mount two cameras and switch out at will, for either high or low shots. Very flexible.

Thank you. You saw what I saw. You maketh my heart flutter, the feminine side, of course.

I agree down to the last comment and thank you for that.

Thanks Robert. Yours' were my exact thoughts as I, long after becoming interested in photography, sat in my non-wilderness prison in Waco until I decided one day that I was going to remedy that dilemma. So I set about selling out and moved to Colorado, in mid-term of a school year, with a son who was a senior, one a junior, and one in 6th grade and moved cold turkey with no visible means of support. I've paid for my folly a thousand times over but do not regret it for a second. The beauty of it is that our kids have had opportunities they never would have had in Whaco working at Kinkos, the largest industry there.

Most folks don't realize but all of Texas is behind someone's fence but The Big Thicket, close to you and rich in resources if you want lots of squirrel and white tail pictures, and out west where the Rockies come to an end. There's one other outdoor resource and that's dry creek and river beds you can traverse in the winter. We spent a lot of time doing that, rock and Indian artifacts hunting. With 3 boys you need some open space. We found some here. I'll sure be happy to tell you where that spot is if you don't know already. There's lots of camp grounds and it only gets better. A vacation is something everyone needs and can use.

"Thank you kindly, dear lady," he said as he bowed and blushed and asked, "were you laboring under the misassumption that I wander daily only in the dark, dense, forest, stalking and finding prey that makes grown men shake from an attack of "buck fever" and fall to their knees, wailing, in obvious pain, pounding the ground with their clenched fists in a fit of mental anguish and eternal jealousy due to a lack of an opportunity to be me?" The mystery is solved and it is true - I only drink Dos Equis. :-D

Thanks footshift. I love doing macro stuff. I especially like doing macro of everyday items and trying to disguise them so they become a bit of a puzzlement that makes the mind work a little. These are all a little too straight to fit into that genre. Gotta keep trying.

Lovely DB. I like each of them. I also like them even after you enveloped them in the groupings. Is that part of a scrap-booking project you have going? Thanks.

You're confusing me William. Is it possible that you're sending secret codes to someone in this forum that isn't related to the pictures I posted. You seem to have me confused with being a "gal."

To post pictures, if you're serious, up at the top of the page in the third line down under the Ugly Hedgehog heading, you click on "Create New Topic." That will open up the world of posting pictures and give you an opportunity to say whatever you choose about the pictures you're posting. Click on "Choose File" and navigate to the folder where you have your pics stored that you want to post. Make a copy of your pic and then reduce the size of the copy to no more than 600 megapixels wide. Click on your "Open" button and it should be added to the right of your "Choose File" button. Once you've done that click on "Add attachments" and they should post as you wanted. You can even click on "store original" out to the right to send your original image so people can see the original larger size of your image. Let me know if I can help further.

You're familiar then with this region. I'll chase down your snow pictures barring a sudden onslaught of my impending dementia.

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Yes. Click on my name above my profile pic. You'll be ushered to my profile information. Once there, go down to where it discusses my submissions and click on the word (list) and you will be taken to a list of my "topics created. From there you'll want to click on the one that says, "But I do like other things." You should then be at the beginning of my sunflower post. I added some after the original three so there are others scattered on down the post. Enjoy.

Thank you sir. I appreciate that. As a one-time resident of Greenville courtesy of the USAF, I've seen snow on the cotton rows and frozen by tocus off there, just as other places. And, you're right, football is on and whoever your NADS are, I hope they live up to your expectations. I think I'll stick to the Broncos for awhile.