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Thanks for your comment Mark. I think probably the...

2010-02-23T12:55:29.419Z

Thanks for your comment Mark. I think probably the best advice I can give at the moment, is to focus on what you enjoy. If you enjoy what you're doing, then there is a greater incentive to improve and become as good as you can be. Equally, try to develop your own style, once you feel you've reached a stage where you think you know enough to start experimenting. You'll get alot of criticism on the way, as people tend to stick to what they know and are resistant to changing the accepted wisdom. Always listen to advice or suggestions, but the trick is to know when to ignore it after consideration or to say "yep, that's a good idea". However, don't follow advice blindly, otherwise you will end up doing things the same as everyone else and your photography will become a clone, without any individuality. Without people doing things differently, photography as an art will stagnate.

Richard, As you stated I to have started this las...

2010-01-28T13:12:44.871Z

Richard,

As you stated I to have started this last year Photography as a release of stress and hobby from my Hectic and busy life of being a small business owner. I too have had these same discussions in my mind should I start putting my photos for others to view or possibly sell or not. I know that I am in a learning curve and only doing this as a release but would eventually like to make enough to pickup additional lens, equipment, etc as most do and see where it goes from there.

I am glad to see that my thoughts are probably not alone in knowing I only like to shoot what I enjoy and if I have to sell my soul to make a living at what I enjoy it will not be done. (Camera will go in a corner). Like you said in your posting, I am an outdoor enthusiast who's love of wildlife has been my ability to stalk and track wildlife since I have been young. Now living for the past 10Years in the natural beauty of NE Wyoming and Western Black Hills, landscape and wildlife is always at my doorstep.

I appreciate any advice that you have and direction is important as I have always looked to people for advice and suggestions as that is how we strive forward and get better.

Good Luck and thanks

Mark

Thanks Joe.

2009-10-23T23:20:28.597+01:00

Thanks Joe.

Canon have released a firmware update (1.0.9) toda...

2009-10-19T20:39:02.066+01:00

Canon have released a firmware update (1.0.9) today as expected.

For anyone interested, the marsh harrier and kestr...

2009-10-18T22:20:43.304+01:00

For anyone interested, the marsh harrier and kestrel are 100% crops. To see the full size crop (and therefore the actual number of pixels), please click on the images. For reference, the 7D produces images of 5134 pixels on the longest side. All images are unsharpened and are created from RAW files. The photo of Bridgwater quay has had a medium contrast curve applied, the others are unprocessed (the kingfisher didn't need it).

Hi Richard, thwese new pictures are really nice. ...

2009-10-09T01:38:39.637+01:00

Hi Richard, thwese new pictures are really nice. They're like paintings. Congrats on the new camera. - Joe

Thanks.

2009-10-08T02:00:16.836+01:00

Thanks.

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2009-09-29T08:28:36.273+01:00

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Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with ...

2009-09-04T00:40:18.759+01:00

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us.