Thanks guys, very touched by your empathy. I think the best help is prayer. I am on the local job web sites daily so thats the job seeking side covered.

alphanikonrex- beautiful beach. love the colors and composition.

another shot of my yard.

Very cool of you admin! That's a great idea but how would that work? Like a classified section or something?

Heartyfisher, anyway I can help? Maybe start a job section in the forum?

Thank you so much for your compliments. It is much appreciated. What's even more breathtaking, is riding down that road on a motorcycle. That...is breathtaking. I love colorado in September.

Shooting in my room, I had to take a picture. I'm unsure about this, I could really use some honest input, thanks guys!

RobertD : I completely agree with Gentoo, the colors are amazing, I would love to just stare at your picture forever, nice job. :)

Alphanikonrex : I really like how the coulds look, it's neat.

RobertD, that is absolutely breathtaking! I can think of no other words to describe how great I think that scene is. You did a great job bringing out the colors!

Hey hearty, sorry to hear. Chin up my friend, everyone's struggling lately it's just some of us got it worst then others. *Niko is raising his hand* Have faith pal. Don't let "them" get to you! At least you don't owe $24million dollars in loans (at least I hope you don't):) I know it's a cliche, but there's always someone who's got it worst.
http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/content_display/photo-news/legal-news/e3i6098aad6d9c8d3fbc930b02a2b294c7d

Hang in there! I may not know you in person but the little I know of you from in here I know your a good man heartyfisher! So my photo today is dedicated to you and to all of us struggling out there. Here's to a brighter tomorrow. Hope you don't mind :)

heartyfisher
When you hit upon that Velvia magic formula...let me know. I'll keep trying on this end. I agree the Gore Pass is a little over saturated. I can crank that down a little. It's fun playing.

@ Nikodoby: been lurking.. and depressed. Got laid off work last month
and been sufering from gout the last week. Praying for a good job.

@ Adam : Sorry thats not an aussie squirrel. It was taken in NYC. Yeah
it was jumping about just about to jump off the tree.
The shading? LOL I couldnt decide on the crop. I thought both crops
were good, so I shaded the outer crop ! LOL. Hearty Copyright!

The velvia PP is close. but maybe a touch over saturated? on some colours?
Dunno. Velvia is special.. You have just got to tryit yourself.. I have
looked at some curves that is supposed to simulate Velvia but its just
did not work well for me (It was close but not to my taste). I guess maybe
I needed the same starting point as the originator of the curve profile.
I am still looking out for a way to get the velvia look in Digital.
Oh well ..

alphanikonrex
I like your composition and cropping.

It's pretty close to Velvia from what I can gather. The only way would be to do a head-to-head comparison with the same photo. I'm not quite sure I like that much saturation, but it's different. The original shot is more subdued.
The shot was taken over the windshield of a Honda Goldwing motorcycle at 55mph. A lot of my photos were taken that way. I no longer have the bike...sold it last year. Sorry to see it go, but it was time...40 years is a long time to tempt fate.

@RobertD: Nice colors, is this close to what Velvia looks like (I've never seen a shot done on Velvia)?

@adamz: I love images with a shallow depth of field, that's a great one!

@heartyfisher: That squirrel looks like its about to leap onto something!

Şile, Turkey

Gore Pass Colorado

Shot in September, 2004 with a 3.1MP Kodak DX3900...my first digital camera.
Tweeked in PS to give it a Fuji Velvia look.

@adamz, funny you say that, I actually pushed the exposure something like 1 stop in post. This way looks better to me.

alphanikonrex - thanks for the info, need to check it one day

robert - once again, I love Your photos

heartyfisher - I really like the snow movement, and also the unusual use of darker frame - really intriguing

tai - nice bug, isn't it a little bit overexposed, app 2/3stops?

and below my contribution for today - the last squirrel (at least from me for some time)

as we have Europen, American, Australian squirrels, we need only African and Asian ones to finish the world tour :), above is the missing Asian one - taken in Delhi, India

Gentoo:
I have found the 35mm f/1.8 to be an excellent lens. At $199, it's an excellent buy. I paid $209 for mine from Ritz, but that included shipping.

There are scalpers on e-bay asking $400 and I have seen it for as much as $600 elsewhere. It happened with the 18-200 VR when it first became available and difficult to find. If a lens is priced over suggested retail, I simply won't line the pockets of the scalpers, I'll wait till I can find it at a reasonable price. Of course that's just me.
I imagine, someone correct me if I'm wrong, if you bought from a scalper, i.e. not a Nikon distributor, the warranty would be worthless.

D90 with 35mm 1.8

Hey it's heartyfisher! Where have you been hiding good friend?

@RobertD : Nice use of the Fractulus filter !! LOL

Looks like its squirrel day ! .. Ok my contribution below... Hmm may have been posted before.. cant remember (sorry if i have)

I just like how everything goes together.

This is what Connor and I do everyday, haha.

YIKES!...

Here comes that guy with the cattle prod again!

@mb
haha nice

I wasn't really going to upload this but I am kind of bored so here it comes. Probably going to delete it soon.

FRAME

Loving the shots on this page so far, especially that squirrel, adamz, so much personality in those little ones

This water strider I took on saturday like the last one, again with the 105mm f/4 micro AIS.

http://www.taishimizu.com/index.tai?title=More-Weekend-Photos&view=post&postid=153

@adamz: When I first decided to make the photo I had no idea what I was in for! Anyway, I knew someone was bound to ask eventually, so I took a photo of my setup:

The key is to have lots and lots of light!

I used a Sigma 18-50mm (more or less the same specs as the Nikon versions) as it was my lens with the highest reproduction ratio.

I set the lens to manual focus and brought the camera in as close as possible.

I knew I would need a high shutter speed, so I set the camera to 1/320 sec, the max flash sync speed. Then I adjusted the ISO to 1600, which was the highest I could go without having a very noisy image. Finally, I set the lens's aperture to ƒ/13.

After that, I pretty much shot blindly. I would check where to drop the water so the droplet was in focus, but when I actually took the pictures I had to move my head as it was blocking valuable light. Then I would start squeezing the dropper while holding down the shutter button. After about ten shots I would let go and check my results on the camera LCD. And then try again (usually after leaving the room for a moment to cool down as the lights were producing a lot of heat).

Bottom line: all you need is patience, endurance, and plenty of light!