I love the color! Nice capture.

Thanks, Dixiegirl!

Thank you!

I know what you mean - I spent the first 30 years of my life in Bremen. I like it here but I miss 'home', too.

Thanks for the comment!

No, I don't have any others but there is another one about 10 miles from here that is rented out for weddings - it faces west so I need to get there early enough to get the light I want. I have some time off next week and that barn is on my list!

I heard the Washington Redskins were dropping the "Washington" from their name - it was too embarrassing to have Washington in their name.

Nice - you brought out the sky, er .... clouds .... that were forming.

Thanks for working with it - I'll try what you did on my RAW version and try to duplicate your version - maybe I'll learn something!

Sure - go ahead - I'm always trying to learn!

As for the new 810 - I'd have to find a new home if I bought one when they become available.

My screen is that obvious, isn't it!

Yes, I live out in the sticks about 5 miles S.E. of Gnaw Bone - I used to live about .5 miles from there about 10 years ago.

Being from Georgia, how do you know about Gnaw Bone?

Never mind - your screen name .... I didn't catch that. Where are you from?

I wished I would have gotten to this site about 30 minutes earlier - the barn would have been better with more light.

Or .... maybe I need a new 810! .... fat chance

Old Barn

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Old House

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Sorry, but I'm not following you - are you referring to me?

.....that the political chit-chat (and camera loyalty, too, I guess) on UH has the same barrier?

When I got to work this AM I was catching up on my weekend email and read an article that contained this:
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When it comes to the purported cardioprotective benefits of moderate alcohol consumption, the scientific world is divided into believers and skeptics and there are abundant data to support both points of view.
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The above is why 99% of the time I stay away from internet arguments about most things because everybody is right - just ask them.

I use both, Windows 7 at work (2 to 8 hours a day) and Mac at home.

This "mine is bigger than yours" stuff is pointless. Some people like Macs better - I do .... I quit using Windows computers about 6 or 7 years ago - got tired of all of the BS with them - viruses, blue screens, etc. Have they gotten better? Don't know/don't care. I know you said that there are now viruses on both platforms but you aren't really trying to say that the risk of getting a virus on your computer is equal no matter the platform - are you?

I have Lightroom 5 on both computers (Win & Mac) and I can't tell the difference is the speed between my brand new Win computer and my 2.5 year old MacBook Pro (13"). I know the specs of the machines will matter and I can't tell you until Tuesday what the HP at work is running, I know they both have 5400 RPM /500g hard drives, and both have 8 gb of RAM - processor - MacBook Pro 2.3 i5 - don't know about the HP other than it is an i5. Long and short of it is that if the hardware is the same the software will probably run so close to the same that it will be imperceptible.

Apple makes a very narrow line of laptops compared to the ones you spec'd in a previous post - I went to the website and there are a lot of choices. I could buy one of them BUT, I like my Mac better than my HP (Win 7), I simply don't care for Windows (in comparison).

Where it seems to matter most is that I have all Apple hardware (iPhone, iPad, Airport express (3), Airport extreme) and everything works together seamlessly. About 3 or 4 years ago I set up my network in about a half hour and haven't touched it since. Maybe all Windows users can do the same - don't know / don't care - my system works for me and I'm happy with it. Which is my suggestion for anyone - get what you like and enjoy it - the crusade some are on to change others minds is simply a waste of time.

I appreciate the info! I'm trying to learn and this type of data helps. It can be frustrating to find an image that is very well done and then the exif data is blocked.

I've wondered if that is intentional or if it is simply a setting that is turned off. If people block the exif data intentionally I'm not sure I understand why.

Pardon my ignorance but what are people printing 36 x 48? It's not that I'm questioning it but that I tend to relate things to my world and if I printed 3' x 4' I wouldn't know what to do with the prints! Are such prints for advertising or some application like that? Just curious.