I guess it's obvious that I like photography

Yes, and I am very glad you do because you find great pictures.

Pretty cool- Ideas and photos- Thanks for the clip.

Great.

I was disappointed to see that none cropped the bird out of the picture.
Not only was it a picture of a bird, but also a beach.
But still very interesting!

@ Alanocu: I really appreciate the time you take to clip the things you do about photography. It always gives me a boost to pick up my camera or paintbrush, hopefully one day I will be able to make a living from making art, it is my driving passion in life and without a doubt the most therapeutic way to express yourself.

Great stuff.I agree about the ratio concerning processing.

I love my Photoshop program, especailly when I can't take a good picture worth a darn, but I can make them look good after.

I was disappointed to see that none cropped the bird out of the picture.

Me too, jon. I wonder why no one chose that?

Great clip, Alanocu.

hey thanks for the great comments everyone!

@BNM and Jon - that's a great point about cropping the bird out of the photo; one I hadn't considered!

Hi Alan...how do you find such intrstg clips?

Nice little research. tnx.

I'm glad that you like photography: I've learned a lot from your clips. Thanks.

nice stuff.great goin,keep it up

.. oh, yep, what there is is what u see !

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one track mind!

they didn't crop the bird because it is prominent, perhaps they feared being "wrong" or felt that the image would be uninteresting without a "subject", even if that subject is only an animal (hence the closeups).

mugofcoffee sorry I didn't see your message sooner. I should be better about checking my clips!

I probably have more free time than a lot of people. I have my own business and work from home. It's a small marketing business for commercial printers. So I'm always on the net doing something. I find a lot of things just from browsing sites that I find interesting. Another place I get ideas is http://www.popurls.com/ . They aggregate a lot of what's popular on the net in real-time. You'll even find clipmarks on that page. The other tool I use is RSS feeds. It's by far the fastest and easiest way to scan tons of sites in a fraction of the time it would take to view them individually!

@thinboy:
A very good point, and you raise a very important issue about considering your audience / viewers when making images!

Groovy.

Those ways and so much more if you have an open mind.

We learn so much from you, alan. I didn't know about popurls.com. Thanks.