Taike, I have seen your photo on the wall in the lobby of my local US Post Office of the most wanted law breakers. Now I know where I knew your face from. I was a little confused since your "alias name" was posted under the photo.

Gary, now another reason to address you as Professor! Nice photo.

Don/Gary darkrooms too! I'd call that very serious hobbyists/pro. I have an old Minolta SLR with a variety of lenses, when point and shoot digitals were released I never touched the SLR again. Back in December I wanted to get a little deeper into photo editing using Aperture software from Apple. It came with a sample library of photos that are outstanding, seeing those photos were the bug that bit me. Since then I purchased a used entry level Canon Rebel 2ti DSLR. Takes nice photos, all I need to do now is learn to use it the way it should be. If you haven't checked out Coaster Tim's photos it's worth a visit to his site, he's got some nice work posted there.

http://www.picasaweb.com/timspirations