Lewis

Gorgeous colors and composition! Ode to Spring (and your back yard!). Lewis

Fine feather detail in low light conditions. Well done!Lewis

A Tufted Titmouse, I think, and yes they don't pose for long. Nice capture!Lewis

Good IQ especially considering it's through a window. Nice back yard visitor, and I share your experience with them as moving subjects, tough to catch close enough and still enough for a photo. My...

Great celebration of the old (fast) glass!Lewis

Ditto.I'd say the dots are at least 4x more prominent (darker) than the thinner, lighter brackets.

Spooky light and color in those clouds!I am not ready for T season!!Lewis

Yep, your illustration is what I see on my D5100, with the selected dot turning red on half shutter depress. And moving to another focal point via the wheel.Even if you don't see the other points,...

Agree with other posts that the 11 points are visible as dots even if the camera power is OFF. But you may be looking for the red dot indication that the focal points are active?Here's a hunch. The...

Both shot counters work with my Canon SX30 and SX50.

Show your mom your owl photos, and then say something like "I'll show you where he is and how to get even better shots for some hot peach cobbler" or some such.... :)

Mighty frosty, Stephen. Like them all, but especially the last two macros.Lewis

I used .jpg files in both, and both the online counter and the Ipanda download gave the same count info. Could be the counters only work with newer cameras? I used on my Canon SX30 and a Nikon...

Try this for shutter count:myshuttercount.comAnd/or download Opanda IEXif (freeware). Both of these tools claim to read the actual shutter counts in cameras (though read somewhere that might work...

Beautiful! Excellent IQ, too. EXIF info would be nice as well as light conditions, distance from subject so we get a better sense of what our shooting tasks are to get closer to your fine image...

Kurt,I'd say you are coping with low light with your SX50 pretty well! I see that one of your BIF shots was at 1/640 and ISO 4000, and with decent IQ. ISO 4000 with a point and shoot? Amazing.I'm...

probably lower expectations, but I was thinking it's pretty cool that my micro Nikkor 55 AI from my trusty old F2 works perfectly on the D5100, just all manual.

Like the glove improv in 2 and esp the tree/snow contrast with the muted by weather red of the barn in 3. Nice.Lewis

First, congrats on your barn owl shots, including one in flight. Though not great IQ, all 3 images do provide adequate detail for species identification purposes. Second, you provided the best...

B-rad,Very nice capture. Two of these beauties call in stereo 3-4 times a month along our creek, but they are not sitters for photographs, so far. Very envious. Good work.Lewis