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<p>Watching the world go by ...<br /> <br /> Thank you all for your beautiful pictures and for positive comments about my pictures - even when I'm not expecting one!</p><div></div>

<p>My daughter serving ...</p><div></div>

<p>Didn't have much time, so here is quick pick - picture from children workshop ...</p><div></div>

<p>Our new family member ...</p><div></div>

<p>Beautiful WedNEsDAy ... Have a nice day!</p><div></div>

<p>Good morning everybody. Beautiful begining of WedNEsDAy already ...</p><div></div>

<p>Mum, or is it dad, is coming. They were both feeding their baby birds ...</p><div></div>

<p>Selling ...</p><div></div>

<p>Wednesday! Here we go again ...<br>

Waiting for an ice cream.</p><div></div>

<p>Mother duck and ducklings ... :-)</p><div></div>

<p>Hi, excellent begining of Wednesday thread again!</p><div></div>

<p>Hi! This is the picture of local primary schools football match. I was experimenting with my faithful Nikkor 50mm 1.8D and it proven quite well even for sports shooting.<br>

p.s.<br>

Forgot about 700 px rule, please click on link it is only 100 px too wide! :-)</p><div></div>

<p>Thread is stucked, so I'm trying little trick!</p><div></div>

<p>Wow if this is not best WeNEsDAy thread so far! Amazing photos!</p><div></div>

<p>Very good contributions so far. Here is one more from my dandelions series, with my son as a "model"...</p><div></div>

<p>Dandelion with D80. Crop and levels only.</p><div></div>

<p><img src="http://static.photo.net/attachments/bboard/00T/00TLIq-134201584.jpg" alt="" width="529" height="700" /><br>

Venice. D80, 18-135 @ 62 mm, F5.3, 1/160, ISO 100</p>

<p>Great pictures everyone! Thanks for answers about filter photographer is using on my picture. Lex you finally enlighten me, it is obviously graduated density filter, so it "<em>Allows you to seamlessly "hold back" bright sky 1,2, or 3 f-stops to balance foreground exposure."</em></p>

<p>Last week in Venice... BTW, can someone tell me what kind of filter is this man using?</p>

<p>p.s.<br>

There really should be an option to attach another picture after deleting one from message! :-)</p><div></div>

<p>Last week in Venice... BTW, can someone tell me what kind of filter is this man using?</p>

<p>My daughter on a sunday walk ...</p>

<p><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/8606842-md.jpg" alt="" width="679" height="453" /></p>

<p>D80 50mm F/1.8 - 1/400s @ 2.8 ISO 100</p>

<p>For those of you who use Mozilla Firefox (and you should :-) there is an add-on for viewing EXIF data of images without leaving the web browser.<br>

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3905</p>

<h4>Long Description</h4>

<p>Extracts and displays the Exif (Exchangeable Image File), IPTC-NAA/IIM (International Press Telecommunications Council / Newspaper Association of America / Information Interchange Model), and IPTC Core (Adobe XMP, Extensible Metadata Platform) metadata, as stored by digital still cameras, in both local and remote JPEG images.</p>

"the open source such as linux however might be best suited to the computer geek who like play with and modify his computer more then he actually uses it..."

 

This was true years ago. Today I install Ubuntu in less than an hour with all the software one needs (Firefox, Thunderbird, Skype, Openoffice.org, Gimp, Picasa, Digikam, ...) I don't have to search for any drivers because Linux usually works with all the hardware out of the box. With Windows I have to search for drivers, installing updates, language pack, antivirus, downloading and installing other software, for hours.

With windows I usually have to reinstall the OS every year or something like that because no matter what, it became slow, bloated and catches viruses and other malware. Linux just works, years after installation the speed is the same, no viruses, system and all the software can be upgraded over the internet and all the programs get regular updates from repositories. On servers I saw uptime more than a year. If you don't restart Windows for a while (days) it starts to behave strangely.

 

For Windows users the easiest way to try Ubuntu is to start it from the live CD, so you can check if all the hardware works (which usually does) or to install it inside the Windows with Wubi http://wubi-installer.org It installs Ubuntu as Windows application so you can uninstall it as any other Windows application.

About PS CS2 in Linux - I think the simplest way to install is with Codeweavers CrossOver Linux. It costs $39.95 but you can use it to very easy install many of Windows applications if you need them (Including MS Office 2007). If you want you can do it for free with Wine but you will have to put some effort in that.

If you really can't live without Windows (applications that runs only with Windows) you can use dual boot or virtual Windows machine inside Linux.

BTW here are the few reasons why Linux is better :-) http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/

Go open source! I use UBUNTU Linux - no viruses, add-ware, spy-ware, blue screens, no need for anti virus software. Fast, reliable, lots (thousands) of free software packages from repositories, just click install in Add/remove application. All applications update themselves with update service. Simple upgrade of distribution over the internet - just click or two. Includes lots of photo software for working with RAW etc. GIMP is very good substitution for PS, but you can make PS work on Linux with few tricks.

You got everything in one package for free, Office suite included. And there is a lot of support online. A lot of eye candy if you like and it works on older machines also.

Go open source! I use UBUNTU Linux - no viruses, add-ware, spy-ware, blue screens, no need for anti virus software. Fast, reliable, lots (thousands) of free software packages from repositories, just click install in Add/remove application. All applications update themselves with update service. Simple upgrade of distribution over the internet - just click or two. Includes lots of photo software for working with RAW etc. GIMP is very good substitution for PS, but you can make PS work on Linux with few tricks.

You got everything in one package for free Office suite included. And there is a lot of support online. A lot of eye candy if you like and it works on older machines also.