Aldwynn

So, we've been back from Florida now for a couple of weeks.  Nice trip!  Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge was a GREAT place to stay.  Highly recommended, as you can just sit on your balcony and shoot animals all day long.    (Savanna View rooms only, of course, but they have observation areas even if you don't book a Savanna room)

Anyway, to make a long story short, I got a lot of good shots between the Animal Kingdom Park, the Lodge (none posted here so far), and then when visiting Dad in Venice, Fl, the bird rookery there...

AND, I have a new love for the 70-200mm L IS!  This was a GREAT lens to have for this trip, for sure.  

Never made it to Myakka State Park this time... so no new vulture pictures.  

Just say "No!" to blatant overuse of airbrushing!

Man, it really pulls my short hairs to see people take a great picture and airbrush the hell out of the model.  

A little softening is one thing from time to time, but man... some shots I have seen recently... wow!

Why, I ask?  WHY?

Ok, now back to my regularly scheduled browsing...


- Aldwyn

I donno why, but for the past 6 months, I have been a bit portrait crazy...

I can't get enough of em.

And I am jealous as hell to see all of the great portraits out here on DA, because I suck at portraits!  Suck, suck, suck!

More practice... more practice...