This is a 50 year old office building reflected in the windows of a modern sky scraper.

Captured this one on the banks of the Grand River

I was sworn into the Navy on my 17th birthday. (needed my parents consent !) and stayed for 11 years.. After bootcamp and radio school, I volunteered for the Submarine Service. As a radioman, I Served on both an old diesel boat U.S.S. Cavalla (SS244) and a nuclear fast attack Tinosa (SSN 606). This was during the cold war and we spent a lot of time covertly tracking Russian submarines in the North Atlantic.Spent time on shore duty at NAVCOMMSTA Yokosuka Japan and NAVCOMMSTA Rota spain. I'm glad to share my photography adventure with the fellow Verterans here. God bless America !

My favorite pic of the Great-Grandchildren. Addison, Isaac, and Casimir. Ain't love grand ?

Here's a link to a technique I use. It results in a mostly tranperant copyright that doesn't hide much of the image. Once I have created the watermark I save the image as a PSD.. Then it is very easy to resize, change the text , or repostion it.
or,if you use the same watermark often, save it to a file that can then be dropped into an image any time you need it. Remember, it's always editable!


Ihttp://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/photoshop/ht/apswatermark.htm

I waxed poetic shortly after buying my first digital many moons ago.
ODE TO THE DIGICAM

If you were human digicam
you'd make my list of heroes.
You change the pictures that I take
to streams of ones and zeros
and pack them in a space so small
I can hide it with my thumb,
then faithfully reprodude them
when the time to share has come.

No more film or Photomart,
no more money down the drain,
for pictures less than perfect
that I'll never view again

Experiment from dusk to dawn
and never spend a buck
until I get the pic I want
by skill or maybe luck

Some love their cat,
some love their car
This we know is true
but what I'll say dear digicam
is thanks for being you.

Here is a link to a great introduction to portrait lighting

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/portrait-lighting.htm