Lovely flower.

Sharon, while I haven't been posting directly to your photo tip threads, I've been following them avidly. I so appreciate all the effort you've gone to to explain in such an easy way so many aspects of taking good [better for some of us] pictures. The last week or so I've been very busy organizing and then hosting our family reunion at a local fancy diner and have not had a real chance to digest the latest installments. The macro stuff interests me very much. I've tried to use my macro recently and found when I did the camera refused to take the picture?? Odd. LOL.. I'll figure it out but I suspect I'll have to dig through the manual to see what the problem is. Your post makes me suspect it has something to do with the camera not being able to focus on what I'm trying to do or the distance, or something..heh.. and it won't fire as self preservation. Smiles. I'll figure it out and then be back to digest more of your post. Btw, I got a tripod for my birthday! Yay.. I relative I had staying with me for a while apparently absconded with my last tripod. Grrrr... Needless to say I'm looking forward to using the tripod to work on some of your 'lessons'. Thanks for all your great work on our behalf.

I posted this at the Electronics Forum, where I'd been asking about card readers, batteries, & such. Thought I'd post it here too. :) My card reader arrived today, which I was so surprised at, and it was SO easy and fast! I had my pics downloaded, sorted, sized, and uploaded to my website all in about 15 minutes. :))) I love this thing!! My batteries have lasted into the night this time, let's see how soon I have to charge again. I will be getting a bigger-rated set at the end of the week when I go shopping next. Here is a link to my very first set of digital pics, if anyone would care to see them...I took shots of various subjects in various situations, to test out different settings...also, I have resized most of these for purposes of web-viewing. The originals were enormous. Here is a link that might be useful: Amy's 1st set of digital pics with Fuji Fine Pix S5100

Bump, it was so sweet of them to help you like that and you picked out a great frame for it. You and Ronnie look so good together. (((((Bump)))) Yep, it's a treasure, that's for sure!