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Hello Chaser,

Nice scenery! Thanks for sharing!

You asked for some input, so if I may be so bold, I'll share some. Although not before saying that I'm no photographer myself, but am in the process of trying to improve my picture taking skills.

So here goes...

The first picture looks a little blurry. I do that all the time too! For every focused picture I take, there's usually 4-5 blurry ones that are wasted. Thank goodness for digital!

Are you shooting in 'landscape' mode? I use landscape mode alot, if for no other reason than it turns off the flash. Then again, the 'blurriness' could be from resizing the picture to fit here in the forum.

The second picture looks a bit 'old' for some reason.

I really like the third picture! Your older camera really caught the light correctly that time. Having part of the nearby tree in the upper right-hand corner really helped me get a sense of distance. Plus the sun rays streaming down look great.

I've read (here) that having a bit of something in the foreground is important. That the rule works very well with the tree in the 3rd picture, but not so well (just to me) with the grass in the 2nd picture. Not sure what you could have done there. Maybe zoom in, but lose some of those cool clouds, or get closer to the edge of the water?

One other thing, which I'm very guilty of, is the water level is off. Many of my pictures are of water, and I can't seem to get a level shot to save my life. One of these days I'm going to buy a photo-editting program which will allow me to rotate my pictures so the ocean isn't running uphill. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Sure hope I haven't run ya off! I've been reading other photography related websites lately, and have gotten a bit used to the type of critiques those guys share. Too bad I haven't applied any of that myself. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />