If I filtered all the crap going on with D-mac and Annika.....
would there be any posts in this newsgroup?
for god's sake people, get a life. If contributions to this group are
seeming a bit thin, just ask yourself what you would do if all you saw

D-Mac, Me, and Helen....
http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/75787937/original

No, this isn't about D-Mac's lunatic ravings, EBAY scams, or phony
web
galleries.
Just a few more shots from today's lunch hour. (It was a bad day to

Just wondering what other folks do to get the best possible results
when *reducing* images - mainly, but not solely, for web use...
For me, I've found that bicubic is definitely *not* the way to go on
many images, due to added 'artefacts'.  I use Thumbs Plus and

I've updated my photo website. Landscapes, night shots, urban life, people,
sport, nature, sea and sand, sunrise, sunset... Please have a
look and post/email your comments and thoughts.!
www.2010vancouverphotos.com

A new on-line petition has been created @ http://www.petitiononline.com/ausphoto/petition.html
Please consider this petition carefully, as the outcome of current
discussions will effect everyone who takes pictures.
Petition Author:  "We need to have as many people sign this as

The last few days have been an enlightenment here... A sad enlightenment
really.
I posted some pretty average pics as bait and some not too bad ones as well
as linking some of my portfolio pics...

Ha, ha ha.... Her name is rastus. She's 16years old and my constant
companion. She loves nothing more than a feed of fresh whiting... When the
Pelican doesn't get it first!
http://www.annika1980.com/D-Macs/cat.htm

See turtlenecks and other creatures from yesterday's lunch hour here:
http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/75712226/original
http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/75712227
http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/75712229

OK, now for some actual photo talk!
I was on AOL tonight and noticed a name from the past in my online
Buddy List (and no, it wasn't D-Mac).  One of the things I always
liked about AOL was that you could make a Buddy List and it would tell

http://www.annika1980.com/D-Macs/liftoff.htm
Extremely shallow depth of field (less than 100mm - 4") at F/2.8 and about
180mm FL (70 - 200 EX, DG Sigma lens) This is the one that's not cropped!
From a sequence of about 10 shots I took as the bird went from stationary to

http://www.annika1980.com/D-Macs/dayatoffice.htm
20D, 24 -70 F2.8, EX DG Sigma lens. There's a rocky outcrop just where these
guys pick up the wave. Almost like being in the water! Uncropped picture.
Douglas

So how low can you go?
The human eye is easily fooled... Like a few people I know!
http://www.annika1980.com/D-Macs/rub-a-dub-dub.htm
Douglas

For taking such f.cked up pictures of my wedding day and making me
look like a freak for the world to laugh at.
Douglas, I wish I had asked Daniel Rocha to do the shots of my
wedding.

Last night I sent D-Mac an e-mail telling him to lay off of my friend,
Helen, and asking him why he continues to add new web pages to his
site to slander me when he had previously agreed to remove them as
part of our truce.  Although I am not in the habit of posting private