Well here's something a little different. Caught this guy crossing a road, shot a few with a nikon coolpix 950 and sent him on his way. Not the best light but I hope to get a few points for not losing any of my fingers.

-- Mike Green (greenplay@hotmail.com), November 17, 2000

Answers

It's hard to make these critters look good but you did a very good job. He looks a little like a face in a tree.

Kevin Ferris

-- Kevin Ferris (kferris575@aol.com), November 17, 2000.

I love it! Only complaint... it's too bad you didn't have enough depth of field to get both the jaws and the eyes in focus - I guess it was too dark. Great shot otherwise. Is that your red car reflected in one of the eyes?

-- Karl Lehmann (outback@gte.net), November 18, 2000.

Hey you're right Karl! That is my red car reflected in the eye. I hadnt noticed it. I'm using a picture of the whole turtle on the contact page of my web site: http://www.webgreen.com/pages/contact.html. Too much photoshop work done on that one to submit here.

-- Mike Green (greenplay@hotmail.com), November 19, 2000.

Mike,

Great shot.

I do a lot of work with the CP950 and was wondering if you were in the manual focus mode when you "snapped" this. Did you use the monitor or the eyepiece fo frame?

-- Larry Pizzi (pizzi@mindspring.com), November 20, 2000.

I almost never use the screen viewer except in this case I did because the camera was sitting on the ground. But sunlight made it almost useless for focus so I autofocused.

-- Mike Green (greenplay@hotmail.com), November 20, 2000.