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Who could not love a dog like this? Thanks for sharing, Tony

An interesting piece of art. Thank you for sharing, Tony

I have never seen this before. A beautiful capture. Congratulations, Tony

You can almost hear the water thunder. A bit of sunshine might have helped. Nice composition. Regards, Tony

Very nice shot! Lots of great detail in the bird - perhaps a little too much sharpening ( in my opinion )? Regards, Tony

Another view from our storm. This 120 foot pine and other enormous

trees dropped all around us. God is good, isn't He? Tony

Tornado or Microburst, we are not sure. On the 17th July 2007, this

enormous 20 inch diameter birch tree dropped between our truck and

the cottage while a 120 foot pine dropped on the other side of the

cottage. We estimate 80 trees dropped on our 2/3 acre forest

property. We escaped with our lives, and the cottage and truck

intact, thanks to the mercy of God.

Nicely balanced with a variety of green and red-wood in the foreground and a pretty scene in the middle distance. Makes a good picture. Regards, Tony

Beautiful composition. Nice sharp depth of field. Great subject. Congratulations, Tony

This is the full frame version of a previously cropped submission.

Comments appreciated, Tony

Love his personality. We have a great canine character living with us too. Thanks for sharing him. Tony

I love this shot of a painted turtle. Doesn't seem to be at all afraid. Tony.

Beautifully framed and excellent bokeh with really nice background colours. Regards, Tony.

Great focus and really sharp wiskers! What is he eating? Regards, Tony

Mary Fran: I really like the crop and especially the detail of the branch. Looks like the focus was perfect and you are using my favourite lens. I don't know whether you have any latitude to trade some ISO speed for more shutter speed? Which might help to freeze his wiskers, although they are pretty sharp. One of the reasons I prefer my 5D to my 20D for this kind of shot is the better noise performance at high ISO. I don't think pixel size is an issue. Regards, Tony.

Just a thought about the squirrel's eye. This is not a jpg artifact, but seems to be a reflection of the scene behind the camera, the squirrel is above the ground sitting on a rock. There's a white ski trail, and a line of jack-pine trees in the distance. The convex surface of the eye acts like a wide angle lens. The blip in the middle could be me. Tony :)

Thanks for the helpful comments. I toned down the highlights a little in RAW (I'm using CS3 beta) using the recover option and stopped down half a stop in the attached version. Incidently, this is a cropped version of the full picture on my photo.net site. So there is a little noise. Thanks again, Tony

Please critique. Thanks, Tony

Great shot. Congratulations, Tony

Please critique. Thanks, Tony

Please critique

A truly beautiful composition. Congratulations, Tony

Any thoughts? Thanks, Tony

I enjoyed your website too. Regards, Tony

This wide angle capture of the night sky was taken in the hills of

Quebec, far away from the city lights. The camera was hand held on

the windowsill. I was delighted. The stars are the right colours -

you may recognise Orion, Betelgeuse (yellow), Ballatrix, M42 (Orion

Nebulla), Almitak, Alnilam, Minitaka, Aldebaran, Elnath, Pollux

(redder) and Castor. I had to do some Chromatic aberration correction

in photoshop. The stars are elongated, due I think to the length of

exposure (still checking on that). Any comments welcome. Thanks Tony.