I really like this. However what is that between the wings?

Great shot, I like it better without the post. I prefer a little blur in the action. I like slightly offset pictures. Everything is not centered in real life. That said it would be nice to have a little more water to the right side of the frame. IMHO. Learned in the remarks about Left to right and will take that into consideration in my shots. Also the cut and paste instead of cloning would solve some problems I have had with tracking. Learned a lot from this. Thanks to all the posters.

I have LR4 on my Laptop with Win 7. My desktop with Win XP has LR 3.5. LR4 will not install or run on an XP machine. This is the future folks.
Now am dreading and putting off upgrading my desktop to Win7. I like Win 7. I like XP. Wife had a laptop with Vista, hated it.

Upgrading a OP system is a real pain in the "neck".

Still bitter about a computer I had with Windows ME. I have bought so many versions of Windows and Office I feel MS owes me a lifetime supply.

This thread just ruined my photo therapy for the day. Blatant stir the pot racism, bigotry,hate, and misguided information. Yes it is general chitchat,but let it be appropriate.

Thanks, I have got to stop this. 3 AM

Another bad nignt

Thanks for your question and concern. At first I found it very difficult to focus on any task. Memory was a major issue and is getting better. I have a catalog of over 22,000 pictures so reviewing them is helping restore memory.
I cannot explain why, but focusing on a picture and finding ways to improve it, or create a new image is soothing.
I pay a lot more attention to colors and lighting now.
I am getting ideas of pictures I want to take and will be out doing so. I shoot in Raw, post process with LR4, and then use Photoshop Elements 10.
Think of the brain as a muscle. It needs exercise or it will wither and die. I am using photography to exercise my brain.
I hope this answers your question. It is difficult for me to talk about it, easier to write. Unfortunately real understanding only comes with the experience and I wish it on no one.

How I feel

Yes

Water Show West Lake


Nightmare 2 AM


Alluring

Recovering from a traumatic brain injury and finding photography to be very therapeutic.

Thank your starting this thread. I am cutting and pasting a book list from all the posts. As and avid reader I am always looking for new books to read. I am an avid Kindle user and can now get books on Kindle from my local library. There have been many good suggestions in this thread. I like to read about many subjects so I really appreciate all the books listed. I agree with you that the subject material belongs in new threads. Thanks again. SRG

Best response, thanks.

More I really need to add:

Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II (P.S.)

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

Street Without Joy, This classic account of the French War in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.

The Killing of Crazy Horse by Powers, Thomas

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869


And of course this hard to read but you must read:
Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years. The book attempts to explain why Eurasian civilizations (in which he includes North Africa) have survived and conquered others, while refuting the assumption that Eurasian hegemony is due to any form of Eurasian intellectual, moral or inherent genetic superiority. Diamond argues that the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate in environmental differences, which are amplified by various positive feedback loops. When cultural or genetic differences have favored Eurasians (for example, written language or the development among Eurasians of resistance to endemic diseases), he asserts that these advantages occurred because of the influence of geography on societies and cultures, and were not inherent in the Eurasian genomes.

The God Delusion by Dawkins

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

The Arms of Krupp
American Caesar
A World Lit only by Fire
Peter the Great
Nicholas and Alexandra
Born in Blood
News From the Empire
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Love in the Time of Cholera
Wild Swans
Mao: The Unknown Story
Physics of the Impossible
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy

Shadow Country, Peter Matthiessen

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

Steve Jobs

Life by Keith Richards (really a good read)

Anything by Kurt Vonegut and Robert Anson Heinlein

Of course the three book series starting with "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

So many books, so little time.

Amazon reviews.

I have a Nikon D80 and three lens. The kit lens, Nikon 10/24 wide angle zoom and the Tamron 18/270 zoom. My wife what me to shoot video. I am avid about still photography. We are going to Alaska. If I get a D7000 body I can shoot still photos and make my wife happy by shooting video. Concerns. I have heard of D7000 problems with focus. Cost. Learning a new system.
The big one what will the difference and problems in using my lenses with the D7000? Any advice will be useful.

D80/Tamron


D80/Tamron


D80/Nikon 10/24

Old man 67. Special for me because of serious accident in September 2011. As near to death as possible.
In recovery and doing well.