Fiddlesticks

At sun set this evening, Canna Lily, with orbs!

I am not sure which is a better shot...?

That's really easy Jimmy. The one with the flower is clearly the better shot!

Lawn Moo

Yup, looks like what you get when you moo the lawn!

Jeez! I'm gonna need to take a bottle of Lipitor from just looking at these photos! I feel my arteries clogging up already.

Hi all, this is my first upload, I hope you like it. It was taken on Koh Samui using a Sony A7 with a 24-70 fe lens

Welcome John2! It's always refreshing to see new members join the ranks.

Thanks for sharing this beautiful sunset with us. The colors are awesome!

Thanks guys.... seems to me another member reached the same "milestone" recently, but he's keeping very quiet ....

I now know why the made a special effort to buy that type of candles, and preparing the cakes, of course putting that many candles on the the cakes would have caused a total melt down.....

There can't be that many 95 year old TV members can there? Probably just a problem with your memory!

I know Shaggy will probably freak out over us having a discussion in a photo thread but here goes. Sorry Shaggy!!!

Let's be honest with ourselves folks, WE ARE ALL AMATEURS! Sure some may have lots more equipment, some may have more expensive equipment, some may have more experience in post processing images and know cool photo processes, but we're ALL (yes ALL) still amateurs. If we were more than that we likely would not be posting our images here, we would be posting to Getty, Nat Geo, 500x and the like. Instead, we are amateurs who enjoy taking photographs, sharing them with our fellow amateurs, encouraging each other with digital pats on the back and having a good time doing it.

That said, it is OK to suggest ways to help our mates improve by encouraging and demonstrating through examples or giving advice in a constructive fashion. We all benefit and gain more enjoyment from this forum when we encourage each other. We will also see images improve because encouragement is motivates us to improve.

I personally took a hiatus from this forum for a spell, not because I was disillusioned or angry but because I was in a creative funk. Some of you know that my real joy is landscape photography. I enjoy the unspoiled beauty of nature and desire to capture it. However I was finding it very difficult to be inspired by the jungles and rice fields that dominate Northern Thailand. It wasn't until recently that I made a semi-peace with this and started to focus more on simple travel photography. Once I started getting out again and producing some images I again returned to share them with you all. They're OK, but i'm fine with that, cause I'm an amateur like the rest of us. Do I hope to get better? Yes! Do I work at getting better? Sure! But I'm having fun doing it and that's important. The fun has returned.

Enough ranting!

Hope you all also have fun!

Stix

You too can lose kilos fast on the new Buddha-Belly-Bustin diet plan.

Thank for another tea recipe, Mr. Chonburiram.

Here's another treat from the back of a pick-up at the daily market in Phetchabun: Freshly caught and grilled plah dhook with spicy pig stomach intestines.

Maybe should start a new thread called CAT FOOD Photography!