Huh? (And one more thing...)

My newest camera takes the same compact flashcards as my oldest (broken) camera. When I downloaded the first test pictures, I was also able to download the images that had been on the older camera when it broke. Frankly I had forgotten all about them except for the fact that my sister and I had concluded that I had tried to take a picture of a pig - becasue we have an understanding of a great photographic truth - snap a pig, break your camera. When I looked at the images, I was a bit surprised, particularly by this one taken at a rest stop on the way home.



No, I can't explain it - hide and seek maybe. Sudden bathroom urge for the person or a dog that needs privacy for same? Who knows!

There was a travelling carnival in the parking lot that day and I took this one of a ride on one of the trucks. I quite like it and glad I have recovered it.



In the mean time, I've been reading up on the Nikon D200 - (the newest camera) and if the sun comes out today I hope to take a few more test pictures. So far it is grey with little to no chance of rain - the worst of both possibilities.

Oh, yeah, and I asked Pamela at The Dust Will Wait if I could play with this really cool picture she tookof the reflection of Northwestern landscape in her humming birdfeeder sugar water. She did not respond so of course I took that as a yes and just couldn't resist even though her image is gorgeous!! Here is how I mangled her beautiful picture (Be sure to check out the originala t the link above).

First I cropped the original and upped the saturation:



Then the playing began.



Finally I went over the top or is that edge?