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While wandering about Budapest, I came upon a small park. Needing a break, I sat down in front of this interesting statue. While resting, this bird appeared and proceeded to march back and forth in front of the statue.

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Photographs of People, Places and Nature must depict subjects with good fidelity to reality. Post-camera changes may subtly enhance a photograph optimizing fidelity but not add to it. Cropping, removal of minor unwanted elements, removal of color cast, highlight and contrast control and subtle use of digital effects (like sharpening, gradients, contrast masks, black & white filtering, etc.) are acceptable enhancements. Photography is an art form reflecting your creative interpretation of a selected subject. Reproductions of paintings, other's artwork or photographs and mere record photos (snapshots!) of monuments, sculptures, and buildings are discouraged for presentation at the Gainesville Photography Club.

Did the topics change? I had "kids" for May. Is there a listing of the new topics for this year?

Adobe has finally entered the online application market with Photoshop Express. Photoshop Express is a free service describe by Adobe as a site where you can "upload, sort, polish, and store up to 2GB of photos. All for free. Resize, tint, distort, and more — add your mark to all your images. Then show them off"

[img_assist|nid=22|title=|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=100|height=80] I was at the Butterfly Rain Forest Thursday morning, March 20th and have never experienced conditions at the exhibit so good for photographing the butterflies. The flower gardens are in fantastic shape with flowers blooming profusely throughout the the exhibit. The butterflies are very active and in good condition, and a few new and interesting specimens of African butterflies have been released. I imagine these conditions are attributable to the mild weather and cool mornings we have been experiencing lately.

I ran across a company that will rent lenses by mail. I haven't tried them yet, but it seems like it would be a good way to try out a lens before dropping money on it. http://www.rentglass.com

This is another shot taken from the campanile next to the duomo in Florence; hand held (400+ steps to the top) with my Olympus C-770, no data recorded, nothing edited. [img_assist|nid=29|title=|desc=|link=node|align=center|width=100|height=75]