be safe, have fun, live life

oh, and maybe we’ll cross paths next year at Santa Anita, i am going to play stringer for the Breeders’ Cup, i’ll throw my R e u t e r s pass around your neck, and you go get me pictures of the horses i want, LOL!

A, thanks. I’ll try to write more often, right now, internet is a luxury and I agree, Robin’s Pac Ocean photos are fantastic.

Narzis, thanks for the very kind words. I truly appreciate them. To answer your question, I’m sure i’s possible to damage the sensor but with a reasonably fast shutter speed, I kind of doubt it. Pure speculation but I think there are probably more photos taken of sunrises and sunsets then anything else (except possibly people’s cats) and if that’s remotely true, the camera makers would go broke on the returns, again pure speculation. I’ve never hesitated in pointing my cameras, with any lens includinng my 100-400 directly at the sun, just don’t look at it long through the viewfinder.

Pamela – Muchos gracias. Eso es muy agradable de usted decir y ser la venida mucho más apreciada de un boliviano. Fotografiaré Tiawanaku hoy. Espero que usted goce esos retratos y los otros que he tomado de su país hermoso.

Robin, thanks as always. I hope you lose that ear worm soon

Fish, good to hear from you and thanks. I’ll take “wow and awe” over “shock and awe” any day. How are the ponies doing?

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i say “wow, and awe”

This is amazing, Ron. Breathtakingly beautiful.

Tell me, (since I have been photographing only with point-and-shoot’s, and am eagerly awaiting my first DSLR due next month), is the CMOS censor (or any sensor your camera has), not likely to get damaged in direct exposure to the sun?

And I love the contrast, looked at this after seeing Robin’s ocean runner. An eternity of cool blue and then an eternity of exotic gold.