I think it was Menken who said "A woman's place is in the wrong." Often changed a bit for other situations these days. Clearly he was a man of his times and not today

I don't think there is a problem with asking others in your peer group what they think. This is how our society forms its norms

Just an emotional response as a first responder and previously a victim in an earthquake:

I felt anger at the people taking a video from a helicopter in the earthquake, irrational I know, but try surviving an earthquake. I shook my fist at them (literally). I suspect they couldn't even see it

As a commander of first responder teams for many years, I have to be careful whenever at a major incident, not because of the danger of injury, but because of the risk of somebody with a long lens trained on me or my team. Dealing with that stuff is horrible and everybody's method is different. Some make jokes and we laugh in the face of tragedy. But a frozen moment doesn't always tell that story.

Yes, we should record tragedy as well as triumph, but at a visceral level, it is hard to accept.

Remarkable and beautiful. I presume this means the frequency of the wing beat is well over 30 Hz. We don't have that bird on our continent, is it a hummingbird?

We loved it with our kids (25 years ago). We had to see it because we had a family friend called Raby Doolin. I don't remember it sloping but it was along time ago

But what a brilliant photo of a periwinkle. I suspect we could do it with other lenses. The trick is finding the right periwinkle

Any where with redwoods. For the rest of the world, they're brilliant. Learn how to photograph them with humans and you've done well

Fin

(Only seen redwoods once)

Of course you could paint the posts an interesting colour and that would be post processing as well

the cat I mean

glad I'm not the only one. Have you noticed it only does it when you're not looking straight at it

I started with PHD cameras (press here dummy) in 70s. After a while I realised that my shots didn't convey what I wanted to say. Read some books about technical stuff and more importantly composition and got an Olympus OM1 (completely manual, but had a light meter in view finder). Gradually learnt by trial and error.

Then the digital cameras took over and the convenience seduced me and I had many other things to do and no money.

Then when my eyes got so bad I couldn't see what I was shooting on the LCD screen, went looking for camera with a view finder, found a Cannon EOS and rediscovered the joy of composing photos and expressing myself again.

I have never been paid for one of my photos, but that's not why I take them.

Enjoy it first. Find out what makes great shots and express yourself.

If you gave Lord Lichfield an Instamatic, he would still take better photos than most of us, but enjoy trying.

The attached is a wallaby in our garden, actually very rare despite the myths, but captured in the moment when he is thinking "is there somebody there?"

Fin

Back in the old days when we used film, we used film with a nice low ISO (<64) with long exposure times on a tripod (gave longer exposure curve).

Not sure if that works now with digital. I think all the info is recorded anyway. Hence I would save as a raw file with the bright bits deliberately over exposed then adjust in image processing to "flatten the curve" ie less contrast

I don't think they have funnel webs in Melbourne, just trendies. Beautiful photos though

I don't think they have funnel webs in Melbourne, just trendies

The simple way is to select the photos you want to export and then press shift command E. This brings up a dialogue box with all sorts of options including the file format, size and the next one is the directory to save to. Just follow the prompts.

PS I thought I should share a photo of our kookaburra (one of king-fisher family)