Day 28
by carofo

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That sounds like a fun little adventure. It's definitely not how tea is done here in the deep south. Here it's usually in a big glass with ice and sugar in it.
Your photograph is excellent for being shot in a restaurant setting. That tea pot must be tiny, or the thumb nail is big. : )

Day 27
by carofo

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The texture is just right for this. That's interesting trivia about the bug.

River Pier
by Alicia

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Nice sunrise. Big congrats on the new camera and lens! You now just advanced from a great little P&S into now having over 200 button combinations with which to mess up an otherwise great photo. ; ) It will not take you long to figure all of the knobs and buttons out though, as you seem to have the passion to shoot good images.
I like the light on the uneven dock boards in this one.

Poles
by Alicia

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It's fishing boats, so of course they have good lines.
Couldn't stop myself from posting that line. : ) I am very happy to hear that you managed to get a lens to use while you are in Florida. It looks like you will not be having any problems getting the new camera to do what you want it to do. Now you will have to adjust to looking thru the viewfinder. Have you tried to hold the camera out to see the LCD while composing yet, like a P&S?
You just missed getting the tips of the outriggers (backward leaning poles) on the nearest sport fisher. The vertical poles are radio antennae.
They swing the outriggers out to the sides when they are trolling for big game fish, and clip the lines from the rods to them with a little clip like a clothes pin, and run the clip out on the outrigger with a line thru a pulley at the end of the outrigger. When a fish strikes a bait, the clip lets the lie loose. The "drop back" as it is called, allows the fish to take bait easier. They also allow the lines to cover a wider sweep over the ocean surface as they troll.

Great Gray Owl
by stargazer05766

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The eyes are a little disturbing in this shot, but otherwise, excellent capture of the feathers. The expression is almost funny. Replacing the background with a smooth blue would make it difficult to say if this was shot in the wild or not.

Brilleau
by Jedusi

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The tree is a cute touch. That looks like about a 30 ft boat, and it seems to be sitting very low in the water. I like the haze behind it. It seems to be foggy or a misting rain coming from the other side of the river. I feel that it all looks just about right for a winter's day on the water. It sure looks cold there.

C. . .H. . .A. . .P. . .E. . .L. . .
by Mike_Adams

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This is an excellent night shot. Subject, exposure and composition are all very "right" IMHO.
I lived near Durham, at Gardner, for a while a long time ago. It's a pretty area of the country.

Day 26 ~Hannah~
by JeniY

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Sweet, and good portraits of the puppy. They are a ton of fun at that age when they love to chase things and play.

Day 27 ~Barn~
by JeniY

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Old barns are camera magnets. The dark ground and bleak sky in this shot help a lot to bring out the barn in all it's detail. I also like that you included the second building, as it adds a lot to the scale of the place in the shot.

Red-Tailed Hawks
by stargazer05766

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Raptors are cool. This is a nice capture of the interaction between them. They look like they could be siblings.