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<p>A couple for Veterans day from about 10 years ago at Antietam Battlefield...</p><div></div>

<p>A pair of flowers, some variety of day lilies I think... </p><div></div>

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<p>A couple from the French frigate L’Hermione's visit to Baltimore this past weekend.</p><div></div>

<p>Reflective and Distorted...</p><div></div>

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<p>A couple of art galleries a few blocks apart...</p><div></div>

<p>I've been watching this old car in Gunpowder State Park lose metal and parts to rust and vandalism for years...</p><div></div>

<p>Some of last week's ice... new ice is on the way...</p><div></div>

<p>... I meant to say: "The 330 and 340 have a larger sensor and also RAW capture that the <strong>P310</strong> lacked..."</p>

<p>I like my Coolpix 330 and there is now a 340. The 330 and 340 have a larger sensor and also RAW capture that the 330 lacked...</p>

<p>A nice warm fall day at El Morro National Monument in New Mexico...</p><div></div>

<p>I have a Benro that is a carbon fiber model very similar to the aluminum one that Eric links to. The model I have has been discontinued, but it's about 5 inches taller than the one you are using and with a ball head is tall enough for me and I'm a little taller than you. I don't mind the flip locks and have not had an issue with them slipping, but I don't use a monopod that often and then only with 80-400 or 70-200 lenses. I like the foam padding on the top tube as well as the placement of the wrist strap. Also agree with Eric about the desirability of fewer sections, but I ended up compromising on that so that it would attach to packs without sticking out and catching on branches while hiking...</p>

<p>I was at Fort McHenry last week for the Blue Angels rehearsal day and President Obama also stopped by for a short visit later in the afternoon. I thought there was a least some possibility of getting a distant photo of him arriving since I had an 80-400mm lens with me. Security was pretty tight and he entered the visitor’s center completely out of public view thought a rear entrance with the general public at least 100 yards away. I had pretty much given up on any presidential photo when I noticed that the blinds on the visitor center window that overlook the fort and the flag had opened. Even with the 400mm lens I really could not see much because of the heavy tinting and reflection on the window, but I took a few pictures anyway. When I looked at what I took on the computer at home, I was much suppressed that I could make out the park’s head of interpretation and the President standing next to the window.</p><div></div>

<p>Sundown last week at Big Meadows in Shenandoah National Park.</p><div></div>