Great Job!!!
I'd like to learn light painting, it would be cool

Very nice set, I'd have to say greens traveler is my favorite. You really captured the mood in that picture.

funny, me likes :-)

Thank you all for the encouragement and positive feedback! That inspires me to do more :-)

I'm not new to this site, I have enjoyed your tips, comments, and wisdom, but I have never uploaded any of my own pictures. So I thought i would add a few just of different genres and styles, to see if there was any comments that might make my work better, and also to show off a little of what I already have done. I'm open to criticism as long as it's respectful. Thanks for looking!

My niece sitting in the truck. I used a Davidnanchin photoshop plug in called frostbite to get the effect, but then also copied the edge on a new layer, and gave it a gaussian blur.


I didn't do anything to edit this photo, accept crop a little (I know that crop is a bad word but sometimes ya gotta lol)


My beautiful fiancé Krissy


On a trip to Florida, I found this old Ford with decay and vines, I took several pictures, but liked this one the best, so I adjusted the shadows and highlights, and boosted the color, to give it kind of a faux HDR look.

Beautiful, and tasty, lol good pic!

lol may need a hunting license to shoot your camera :-)

LOL! :lol:

Thanks! Plus with the money I saved, I was able to buy both a polarized and a UV filter :-)

Aren't I the savvy shopper? LOL I don't usually brag about saving a buck or two, but I am as pleased as punch with myself right now. I needed a camera bag to carry and protect all my camera gear, so I went to Walmart to check them out. Up until recently, I only had one lens, so the camera just went along on a strap. But even at Walmart's so called low prices, a camera bag, big enough to hold a DSLR, an extra lens and a few extra gadgets and gear, was in the 60-70 dollar range. Which in the scheme of things, isn't allot to protect over a thousand dollars worth of camera, but I just don't have that kind of money right now, however I found the solution. In the sporting goods section, I picked up a shooters bag for under 20 bucks, that has padded pockets inside for extra scopes, pistols etc. and a hard plastic bottom for protection. Then for just a few bucks, I picked up some foam padding (made for seat cushions) from the sewing and material section. Now I can cut the foam to my specific needs. So, not only do I have a bigger and better camera bag, it's custom made to suit my needs, it has more protection than the camera bags on the market, AND I got it for a fraction of the cost of a designer bag :-) You go me! lol

I keep getting spam email from Santa Claus.
At least I "think" it is from Santa:
It says it can make my "present size" bigger!

Love it! That is great!

Oh Norman, can you hear the loons? Looolooolooo..... - Ethel, On Golden Pond. (Awesome photos)

I always say, there"s nothing like a good joke....... and that was nothing like a good joke! lol (cute though really)

Gimp was my gateway drug into photoshop. Its free to use and can do many of the same things photoshop can. (Although almost never quite as easily) There are tons of how to videos on youtube. And that's where I got my education to start on. I use photoshop now, and its way better, but for someone starting out, or trying to do something on the cheap, gimp is a great freebie. I never did hdr on gimp, I mostly do photo manipulations, but try googling gimp tutorials. You may find artcles or even videos that walk you step by step on the process. (And usually, like gimp, they are free too)