Gorgeous stuff Herb! I am a "people" photography by preference, but deep down I still love to do flowers and all manner of "pretty" things that mother nature provides us with. Absolutely DISASTROUS at landscapes though!
The colours and sharpness in all of your shots are sensational. I am SO suffering from "*istD envy"... tan.x. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Herb Chong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 11:47 AM Subject: new pix > here are some pictures taken in the last month and a half of various fall > scenes. these are mostly taken with my Nikon Coolpix 5000 P&S digital camera > but the last bunch are with my *istD including the batch, the ones of the > flowers and butterflies, i took with Cesar at the American Museum of Natural > History. > > http://users.bestweb.net/~hchong/Seasonal/Seasonal1.htm > > for all intents and purposes, the *istD has retired the Nikon. i'll take the > Nikon only when i have to use a small camera and can't use anything else. > that's hardly ever. the image quality of the *istD is much higher, although > the Coolpix 5000 was never really bad. it was middle of the pack 5 > megapixels. > > i just haven't had a chance to take my rolls of slides in for processing. i > have about 10 rolls covering the same period, more or less. most of October > ended up being way too sunny on weekends and i was guiding a lot of people, > so i didn't get much i really liked. the very first picture in the sequence > is a layering of 6 images taken at 1 stop intervals. > > Herb... > >

