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hey! i was looking at you site and saw the photo section, im only in 10 th grade but i take photo class, and was wondering where did you take those shot, i love the one were there is the lady in the middle where there anre some clouds in the back kinds like equal on all sides with the contrast(love it)

do you do herp photos, beside the ones on ur site, bc i have been taking photos of the reptiles at the place i work, and have been getting a lot of good ones im trying to get my scanner back up to post some, any way do you if this
maxxum 70 outfit date is a good camra (with a big focus lense i think 50-300) good to be using to take pics. i can get really close with it and get some really good shots, do you do feild work, like go herping and take shot out there,

im thinking of getting a cool pix for easter, so i can take some shots of where i work and my animal as other ones, is a cool pix a good camra bc i think alot of ppl say it is good and is what they use

thanks for you help, p.s. ur pics are really good

The picture of the woman with the torch and the sword is on Duckworth Street. Because of being an island we always get clouds, makes for some dramatic photos. Here is a link to the whole monument:

http://www.harrypalmergallery.ab.ca/galwarnfld/stjohns.html

I do some herp photos…a friend of ours is a dealer so I get a wide range of subjects to use. I have a great series of alligators and monitors swimming. Use a very large fish tank, set it up on four crates, ½ fill, light (filtered) from above and then shoot through the bottom pane.

I like to do some field photography but no herping or herp photography. We don’t have any herps here except for green frogs and American toads introduced in the 1950’s. No skunks, racoons, deer, opossum, poison ivy or oak either but we do have the largest black bears in North America…so you do field work carefully.

The MAXXUM 70 is a nice camera as are any of the Minoltas. It is a film camera which I haven’t used in a while. There are two points of view on the film vs. digital debate. In a price comparison if you had say $500 to spend on a camera, you would get a much nicer film camera then a digital. Digitals though are easier to edit, you can choose to develop only the photos you like and have some better preset functions for people starting out.

I use a Cannon A75 (there is also the A85 and A95…all great cameras) and a very nice Olympus C8080.

Do you know which coolpix Nikon you were interested in? It’s hard to knock a Nikon so it comes down to preference. I prefer Cannons and Olympus but Cannons mainly. They have better lenses and more manual flexibility.
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