Wow~ beautiful!

Thanks very kindly Linda! Exactly the type of guidance I was looking for! I'll go back and hack at it a bit and see what happens! Gon bei!

John

Thanks! Will give it a try next time!

Out for our evening walk tonight and got a shot I'm really happy with personally but would love some experienced eyes to critique.

Gon bei y'all!

John

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Wow! Just...well.... .WOW! Stunning! Thank you for sharing!

Gorgeous shots Dook! Thanks for sharing!

I always found that flowers, breakfast in bed, and profuse apologies to be sound tactics in this regard. :)

Thanks for the kind words y'all. :) Have a great weekend America! SemperFi!

Wow! NICE!

So I decided to go exploring in my current city of residence - took an hour and half bus ride to get to the other side of Shenyang (SY is BIG folks!). Wound up beginning my walk at a an old Buddhist monastery called Falun Temple (also known as North Tower Temple) which was built around an old Qing Dynasty tower called Falun Tower (or North Tower). It's one of four towers built back then and has something to do with appeasing the gods of the four winds or some such. Was a very cool, quiet and reflecting visit. I only got a few shots from inside as I was told to be extremely respectful of the many prayer buildings and room housing all kinds of Buddha statues.

Finished up there and the girlfriend decided she wanted to visit a local street market. Spent the rest of the afternoon strolling through that - eating street food, letting her shop, and taking a bunch of snaps. And inevitably saying 'Hello' back to local folks who have never seen a westerner before (much less an American) and wanting to use the one English word they know... "hello!". Except the kids - the kids take English mandatory from 8th grade through the end of university -- when they could overcome the usual shyness they really wanted to practice English. It's that way in every city I've been to in China. :)

Falun (North) Tower, Shenyang, China

Well, just to close out the discussion. I popped for the full Lightroom. I think I'm over the summit in figuring it out thanks to the good guidance from you folks. I've successfully cataloged all (at least the ones I can find) and am creating collections and mucking about with tags and metadata now. And the back and forth between Photoshop and Lightroom is getting easier. So thanks to all who chimed in for the advice!

Gon bei,

John

Love the shots Dane! Especially the Warrior. My first solo. Also flew a 172 as a civilian. Great shots sir!

Thanks kindly. I will say taking that shot was not a lot of fun.... I can't explain how rank that fish market is along the canal there. :D

Beautiful sir. God bless you both. :)

Comments / suggestions always welcome. Thanks all!

Gon bei,

John

Guardian lion-dog statue at the Forbidden Palace, Beijing, China

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Random pagoda at a wetlands preserve near Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China