Thanks for your comments! I was surprised to be featured since I've been away from Webshots for 7 months. I moved over to summitpost.org since it suits me better for mountain stuff. You can find me there under Noondueler as well. See you live in Oregon with all that beautiful scenery! Have a great summer! Windsor

said Noondueler 8 months 11 days ago

Sharon and Shasta.......sounds right together. I am glad for Shasta that you came along...quite the plan that one was.

said trueblvr 10 months 18 days ago

Sharon, thank you for checking up on me. My aunt is having surgery this week, and I have several commitments this summer, so I was very honored about your invitation, but can't right now. Thank you so much for all your encouragement and support and checking on me. My aunt is doing better and the family is moving on. My other aunt's friend, Bonnie, was a good friend of the family and I knew her for such a short time, yet her impact is everywhere around two households in the belongings we inherited as we helped her family clean out her apartment. We have this begonia that was snipped from the top of her tall plant, and now it is very large and in full bloom after six months. Life does renew itself. I like your memorial album. I see you photographed the cherry blossoms at the capitol this year. Good for you! I went to your website and see you are trying to develop it to show off your photos. That is pretty cool. I haven't been able to upload or check out webshots for awhile as I have been sidetracked with my family and other things lately and I miss webshots. We just got through a visit of a butterfly farm near Independence you should check out sometime. It is beautiful. You are developing into a fine photographer. It is fun comparing notes with you and shots on our beautiful countryside.

said adagraphs 2008.06.19 at 17:53:20 PDT

Ok, quick question, how do you handle depth of field focus issues. Taking pictures of an iris at F5.5 and 300mm, I have to select what part of the flower is to be the sharpest focus such as the edge of the peddles or the center of the flower. Even at other focal lengths I still have to pick what is the sharpest focus. And to be clear, I am only talking about a few centimeters at best. I am using Nikon better quality optics but not a macro lens (AF-S 70-300mm 1:4.5-5.6 G ED VR) and (AF-S 18-200mm 1:3.5-5.6 G ED VR). I am also running into this problem shooting dioramas about 15” deep. I seem to get the best focus issues in the F8 range when trying to focus on the whole diorama. Larger aperture setting gives great detail at the surface but lose focus very quickly with distance. How do pros take pictures with sharp detail from large areas and small detail flowers without losing depth of field? I relize some of the issues may do with optical quality of the lens. I thinking that there is something that I am missing, could it be post production editing?

said rmeredithiii 2008.04.22 at 19:32:19 PDT

Hi Sharon, Where is the blossom festivial? Check out my new cherry blossom album. The whole street has cherry trees on both sides. Quite a site. I'm so luck to see it every day. Enjoy your trip. Ours to the tulip fields took 3 hours due to all the traffic getting there. Sharon

said bbshar 2008.04.15 at 23:39:31 PDT

Hi Sharon, Looks like nice weather coming. Hope to make a trip to the tulip fields in Woodburn this weekend. Pro Photo on site photo class this weekend also. Check out these websites. http://www.prophotosupply.com/tulips/ also http://www.woodenshoe.com/fieldreport.html Sharon

said bbshar 2008.04.09 at 22:56:13 PDT

Hi Sharon, Glad to meet a fellow Oregonian. I have tried to leave a comment on your Joseph statues, but it doesn't seem to stick. Great shot of the statues. So many for a small town. Sharon from Portland

said bbshar 2008.03.01 at 12:23:45 PST

I think it is so wonderful that we can make all the pictures we want to with these new digital cameras. I think I was born too soon. I have been making pic ever since I was 10 years old. They were all black and white. couldn't afford color. I don't know if they had color back then.I think you did a great job.I just loved that pic the best.It snowed at night this year and was gone by daybreak. I will come back again.Thanks for sharing. Give the kids a hug for me.I haven't seen my grandson since 2001.He is 9 yrs. old now.

said josrainbow 2008.02.29 at 23:56:53 PST

Sharon, I am fine. I just got back a week ago from visiting my aunt out of state. My uncle passed away last year and I wanted to take care of a few things for her. I am very touched that you checked up. I have been catching up on emails and my camera is full. I haven't been taking photos lately as I scanned a lot of family photos from my aunts I am trying to get to DVD right now for my family. How are you? It is a beautiful day today! A great day for photos. -T

said adagraphs 2008.01.21 at 13:36:39 PST

Best Wishes for this New Year Sharon - from beautiful Washington State to you in the beautiful State of Oregon = what a "duo," < Italian, from Latin, means two). And we might let northern California join our exclusive PNW club since I've heard they don't much associate themselves with with S. Cal.! So I guess that really makes them sourhern Oregonians! Maybe they would like to be annexed to Oregon? Gary in Seattle :)

said stoneycreeks 2008.01.06 at 13:37:28 PST

Sharon, the messsage you left me was very touching. I have not read that verse before and it is very appropriate. Thank you for your caring.

said adagraphs 2007.08.20 at 22:27:18 PDT

Hi Sharon. I enjoyed looking at the beautiful quilts very much. It is nice to view your forays through this beautiful state. You asked, "Did you feed the birds?" We were right on the beach and the seagulls were right next to me most of the time. It was discouraged to feed them where we were staying so I didn't this time. You are so right about feeding them. That would get them closer so I could have more time to shoot. The seagulls weren't afraid of me so I was able to get pretty close. When they flew toward me, I was having trouble when they flew over me or toward me to get them in focus without blurring or cropping. I often had to back off the zoom to find them and then zoom in as they flew away. Which is a bit discouraging to geth their backside. It is improved at least. Do you use a trypod while you are feeding them or hold freehanded? I was thinking of making a monopod for walking. I can now see how addictive focusing on birds is as a genre itself. It is great way to get some fresh air and learn to use the camera with live subjects. Getting live action on kites is actually the same problem. It is hard to feed the kites! Thanks, Sharon. -T

said adagraphs 2007.08.01 at 15:01:08 PDT

Thanks for the tip of how to photograph seagulls. That is great.

said adagraphs 2007.04.16 at 02:10:24 PDT

Sharon, the photo you thanked me for was in my Windows sample picters. I am sure the anonymous photographer appreciates your comments, so thank you. It was one I put in my public shoebox because I accidentally deleted my first album and couldn't access my photos until I had a working album. A long story. I have been afraid to touch it for fear of losing my photos again. I guess I should write something like that with it or replace it. Thank you though!

said adagraphs 2007.04.14 at 19:51:53 PDT

PS: Please feel free to erase any of my messages if you choose. As a fellow "Hippie" - everythings cool. "V" << the Peace sign :>)

said stoneycreeks 2007.03.29 at 15:13:35 PDT

Hi. There is much clutter among the gems as you will find. I need to focus more albums for the public like you have. You have taken some great local shots. It is fun to share other perspectives. I will enjoy looking at your other albums too in near future. You have a good camera and good composition in your landscapes I admire.

said adagraphs 2007.03.29 at 14:02:04 PDT

My pleasure to have you listed as a friend Carole. The top-quality of your camera work does show a love for practicing it. And seeing your scenes chosen makes me suggest a fine book about the Washington and our PNW. Timothy Egan's - "the Good Rain." A simple, quick, copy-&-paste gives you this book review: From Library Journal The Pacific Northwest, with its giant trees, fascinating coastline, mighty Columbia River, and not-always-dormant volcanoes, has inspired a number of personal narratives. In this book, reminiscent of Ivan Doig's Winter Brothers ( LJ 10/15/80), New York Times reporter Egan interweaves personal experiences and conversations with observations of nature and historical information. He travels through Washington, Oregon, and southern Vancouver, following the route taken by an earlier traveler, Theodore Winthrop, 150 years ago. A conservationist ethic pervades the book; Egan discusses major problems such as the cutting of the forests. A nicely done narrative for the general reader. - Joseph Hannibal, Cleveland Museum of Natural History Available at Amazon.com for as little as $2.60 mailing included. Egan's a NY Times newspaper reporter. His environmental appreciations are interwoven into a story of his own personal life. So, it's not a dry read like a university study of nat. hist. by any means. Thanks for the friend's invite. My pleasure to have a red-blooded PNW-erner on my friend's list. Thank you for the pleasure of your camera-WORK-LOVE, and writing about our PNW so beautifully with your lens. Sincerely, Gary

said stoneycreeks 2007.03.29 at 09:32:07 PDT