Buttering the bread.

Hello Cristian. Thanks for the picture. Seeing this was only half the picture, I will only half tell you what I really think of this picture and rate it only with half the points. (grin) (or are you telling me you are just "half the guy you ones where?") (Just kiddin' mate)

It took me a while to find you, because I never got a full name (on paper) and forgot (as usual) (memory slips at 45 as ya know), but then it dawned on me, I got your email address, so why not find you in the members directory. Well to make quite a long and very boring story short, I found you.

Now I know I promised "not to be gentle", but I really can't... (this is not a "white pussy thing" ;-), but I really like the way you are thinking... Normally beginners on photo.net upload there holiday snaps (God help us all) in the hope to get good ratings and lots of "wow's and nice's". But you my friend are different. You have an eye for "the message", and I must say I really have a weak spot for that.

To many, this (above) picture, might be uninteresting, but to the observant eye it tells a hell of a lot more. Now normally someone would have shot that picture from a sitting position, but you didn't. (Please don't tell me that you where not able to sit upright anymore, I'm going for the "Cinderella" version of this tonight ;-) It tells me everything about the place you were at that time, and that's just (photographers) magic.

I'll even go further than this by stating that: "All the pictures I ever took with my 8 megabit Olympus E-500, can't stand in the shadow of this picture (->message wise<-) made with a 3.2 Mp camera."

Now how about them apples?

What I'm trying to tell you is: "please go on making great pictures and tell the world what YOU think, and let only those observant enough read the message".

GreetzZzz, Frits Nieuwenburg

Le pais-bas (the Netherlands)

What do i say.... Thank you very much.

I have never been good at language.. written nor spoken. So I'm trying with photography.

For this shot..

The camera was laid on the table and voila.

So yes i can still sit up straight lol, I'm still on the younger side... 28.

I also have a few of those holiday snaps.. but ill refrain from posting those.

wait... this one was a holiday snap... ;P

"All the pictures I ever took with my 8 megabit Olympus E-500, can't stand in the shadow of this picture (->message wise<-) made with a 3.2 Mp camera."

That just brought the biggest smile to my face.

Even bigger then when i bought a d70 just a day before i read your message. And looking at your pictures that is a lot for you to say to me..

So thanks a lot for that, them apples are great.

I will let those observant read the message.. actually ill keep taking pictures just for the observant.. ;)

And by the way. my email changed :(.. i moved to another provider :(.. And i lost all of my saved emails..double :(

even tried to do recovery. no luck.

But i have updated my profile..

Thanks again Frits.

Christian.

You'll never know what you can get until you try it.

And patients is extremely important when you attempt something new..

or old.