Ty for the comment and the advice .

Hi Milo, Thank you for your nice comment on Messembria. It's actually the earliest painting of all that I posted here. I was not quite sure whether to post it or not, because it was not following any painting rules. But since I really love this place, I decided that I have put quite a lot love in it to hide it, so here it is. :) Your comment is very important to me, since you were the first one in caedes to comment my first work and I treasure your opinion a lot. Thanks again.

Jenny

thanks Milo for the great post you left on Hybrid - been locked into my photography for a while so it was good to try something a little different.

cheers - Phil

Hi Anderson. Thank your for keeping your honest comment on my photo "Hanthana". I actually tried hard to control the glare from the sky but failed since I was not using any filters those days. By the way this shot is a panorama which I forgot to mention. Glad you enjoyed it.

Nope, they're full res. 1600 x 1200.

Tripod? Those things from that old sci-fi novel? ;-)

Always expect at least a little sarcasm from me, even if I do mean no harm (which I would like to think is all the time). :-)

Thanks for your kind comments for 'Black-capped Chickadee'. :^]

Hey Milo!! I've uploaded a new pic, and I wanted your opinion on it. :D :D

Good Day, Ron.

Hello Milo. You make a fair point about the sun in “Sydney Harbour”. Thank you. I was really tempted to fix it but decided to leave it for reality’s sake. I wonder what Ken Duncan would have done in this situation?

Hey , thx for the comment and sugestion on ice & metal , i will defenitly try that ; i'mm new in fotografy so all tips are appreciated.

Don't even try to break the Caedes addiction. It isnt worth the medical expenses...

Thank you very much for your comment on "Ninja Friend." The PowerShot Pro1 is a great beginner camera, but I think you would be better off with a Nikon D50 DSLR with the kit lens, seeing how it's about the same price and it gives you the ability to upgrade lenses.

i still could've been closer, but i didnt know how i'd want to crop, although that lens has a really crappy macro (like 7.1 - 1 or something), something to note tho, to make your life more complicated :P is that this was at f/2.8 which is why there is such a small depth of field, and smooth background

thats cool, when we went it was quite a bit above zero, so melted alot, so most of the fine icicles werent there, check out my shot from the time i just posted, im also debating posting the big panorama image with some ice climbers in it, although the big shadows kinda wreck it, i'll probably post it anyways

Hello Milo: I'm pleased that you liked "As the Seasons Change". You are correct about my soft focus lens. It's a Cannon 85mm dialed to #3.
The image was made with the branch being parallel to the film plane so that the whole branch would be in focus and then I used an aperture of 4 so that all of the surrounding elements would be greatly out of focus. I wanted them there, but in a supportive role and not to compete with the main subject.
I'm very pleased that you like it.

A Photograph is more than a still image of the real, it is a doorway into the unreal, it allows you to see through the eyes of the photographer, and see how they see the life around them.
(Our) Kirsty Smith

hey, have you bought the macro lens yet?

Hey Milo..most grateful for your kind words to Digital & Film'......I was undecided wether to post the image with this frame!...it seems I have a mixed bag of 'Pro's and Con's' about it...so i will try to post the original at a later date.......Bob

It is time to make a new Ceades Icons background...hmmm.
-Rob

Hello Milo...Thankyou for your comments on (ROYAL DEESIDE) I use an ordinary SLR digital camera.....but I find that early morning or late afternoon for the right light to take my pics...All the best ....Mick

Hello again Milo...I would like to thankyou for taking the time to look at my gallery and to thankyou for your comments...it is very much appreciated.....After I post this comment to you I am going to have a look at your gallery....All the best....Mick

Post a picture from Sunday night already!

Thank you for your comments. I actually wish I could have seen the bottom of his body better, but oh well...nice to see fellow Canadian subscribers!

Hi Milo,

The second hay bails capture is really what I was longing for. Coming back to photo editing... Of course I realise we aren't able to give up such a helpful tool. But in my opinion the fact we are not able to capture the nature as we see it means only we have lot to learn. I know photo edited shots look much brighter, the colours much more saturated, the light warmer... But this is already far away from the original scenery. It looks as a completely different place, time of the day, the atmophere. As if we created some new enhanced reality... It is possible to make a superb photo from a good photo in a photo editor but is it possible to take a perfect shot? This I would call a mastery we should strive for. Good luck to all of us and to you Milo.

Ewa

Great pictures you've got there.....and after looking at them, I hereby conclude:

1. You are a great photographer
2. I must visit Canada soon :-) and experience the vast beauty myself....

Thanks for your comments on my "Wide Shot of Philadelphia" photograph. I'm glad that you liked it, and that you especially took the time to look at my work and comment on it. Thank you again!

Nick

thanks for your comment on "Bald Eagles" Yeah Alaska is pretty incredible. You'll see hundreds of bald eagles all over the place during the day as well.

so that is how you get so much karma eh, when does it start saying 'massive' for karma? 1001?

Hi Milo, thanks for commenting on"Crystal Ice Palace"! I'm glad you like it and thanks for the wish of luck! :)

Hey Milo , thx for the comment on sentree in fantasy setting , i apprecaite the support .

Thank you for the wonderful compliment on Nature Captured.

Hello Milo. Thanks for the compliments at “Memories of Youth”. I just used a 200mm prime with no filters for that one. It happened to be on the camera for birds in flight :-)

No Milo unfortunately it’s not a macro lens.

Thanks for the kind words Milo. As for the photo "On The Edge" it was shot with a Canon DSLR with a Sigma 105 macro. I use a Canon 550 flash on most of my macro stuff. I have used three different camera bodies over the last four years but I think this picture was shot with the Canon 5D.

you can have my 960 th post. doesnt that just make you warm inside, only 40 more till massive karma! oh and i think i got my computer working properly, just messing with the bios. and im doing a fantasy image copying yours just so you know in advance and dont get too mad ;)

Hey Milo! I wanted to drop off and tell you that I've brought snow pics from Israel! I only uploaded one, but a series of them is coming. I'll be glad if you take a look.

Have a great day,
Ron.

hi, yes i took crystal ice on my tripod, i used my long lens, so theres no way i could've blurred the water like that at that length by hand. post some of your vancouver shots now!!

i finally caught up to you in posts :) this is my 1001, i meant to give you the 1000th, but i wasnt watching close enough. its almost like having a birthday :P

Thank you for your comment on "He shoots, he...!" I also appreciate you viewing "Pressure." Keep it on the DL, but "Pressure" was edited to add some drama. There was really over four minutes left in the game.

Thank you for viewing and commenting on "Moss", the words you left are much appreciated. Thanks for the hints, too, but it was not easy to submit this photo. I explain: this is a scanned old 35mm colour slide taken with my sturdy and reliable Nikon but... not digital. I avoid manipulation as much as possible but, because scan often denatures colour and detail, I applied some sharpening and colour correction in Photoshop. I tried a tighter crop resulting in noise and loss of detail. Sorry, my English is not fluent but I think you understand me perfectly.
Cheers.
António

Hi Milo, I just wanted to say that I loved your gallery... You got some really nice pics there!
Thanks for sharing.
Martin

:)) its not easy to answer this, but i think the real life contains lots of love, joy and happiness.. and you are a hero if you have this all times! cause these days its hard to find your way to happiness. did i answered your question?

Hey, thanks for your thoughts about improving my "Dizzy" shot, I appreciate it! Good ideas.

Shame about Calgary eh? Atleast the Ducks are beating Colorado...

Thanks for the comment on "rubber bands" Yeah, your right about putting the knot in focus.

Hi, thanks for leaving a comment on my photograph of The Family of Man sculpture. I was in Calgary for the last two weeks and took a few photographs (well maybe a lot - about 500) - I will be posting many of them, so hope I do justice to your beautiful city - I just loved the big shiny buildings reflecting on each other. The weather was perfect - I think I chose the best time to be there.

Hi Milo, glad you like my Hoodoos photographs and sorry if I beat you to posting them! LOL! I suppose as a visitor I was trying to see as many things as possible while I was there. I was fortunate that the day, in fact the whole two weeks I was there (two weeks mid-May) the weather was perfect. I have lots of other photographs of the rock formations too which I might post at a later date. Would like to see your photographs on here too. thanks for leaving a comment again. Patti

Hey Milo , thx for the comment on flying ant , always appreciated.

And for your comment on Coccinella septempnetata ; as for learing , i'v been dooing this for about 7 months now , i i learned most of it here and Caedes. So i'm glad i'm making a contribution.

Thanx MiLo (Did I spell that right? - LOL) for stopping by to comment on Warp in Linear Time ...I appreciate the support!

I'm sorry. I don't know why I thought it was Switzerland. Maybe because they have very high mountains too? Who knows? I will try to be more careful. :)

darn right

Thank you for your kind words to Beach Huts Milo.....much appreciated.....Bob

I just thought it was comical that you bought a super wide lens and the first picture taken was a tall vertical one. Aha, aha.....hee'hee.......ho........hum.............(runs and hides)

Dear Milo. Appreciate your kind comment on "Living in nature". Thank you.

Howdy from Arizona! Thank you for your appreciation of "Tail Mosaic"! I have some other shots of him and was thinking of putting several 8x10s together for the complete animal; your idea is an even bigger project! Lots of good stuff in your gallery - one of my best ever vacations was driving/camping from Regina (I know, it's not Alberta) to Jasper via Calgary; Alberta's a great place!

THanks for your comment on phosphorescent honey... and the secret isn't much of a secret: Flashlight. :)

amare umbra

youve a beautiful and varied gallery and I'm certainly keeping my eye out for your new works.

this is the kind of work I aspire to! 8)

hey Milo
yeah the zoom slipped under its own weight in TO BOLDLY GO but this is common and quite a few lenses these days have zoom locks to prevent just such a thing from happening

but as you say it turned out an interesting shot ... im glad it happend
thanks for your appreciation

no

Thanks for stopping by and for commenting on my photo "Interesting Tree." Since you are from the area, do you know how that tree grew like that?

BTW, you have a fanatastic portfolio. Your landscapes are impressive.

Excellent Gallery...Don't want to miss a post so addding you to friends...thanks. Jas

Hey Milo , thx for the comment and toughts on standing tall , always appreciated.
Can you change the bokeh ? I always tought it had to do with lens design and the number of blades in your diagram.

Kristof.

kinda amazing that shot has over 2000 views huh?

Thanks for the help Milo. Your gallery is awesome. I love all of the photos. They are REALLY good.

Hey Milo, thanks again for the comment you left on "Deep Thoughts". If I remember correctly it was a photoshop plugin that gave the blur in that image.

Oh cool, some of my relatives are from a very small town in Alberta.

("Never memorize something you can look up again". That is going to be my life model now. ) Dont you mean Motto?

thanks for commenting on the small camera issue. i'll have to decide soon. the thing is that i only want it for family photos, etc. i use my big camera for everything else. i had wanted a super thin camera which would easily fit in pocket or purse. the two cameras i mentioned aren't as small. they have lots of other features, but do i need them????? the casio looks just right but i keep hearing not to buy a camera from someone who isn't really known for cameras. oh well! no big deal but thanks for trying to help!!! jen
ps. i just looked at your gallery. you are a wonderful photographer!

Dear Milo,
I am far behind with my written appreciation for the wonderful works of others and the marvelous attention given mine, so thank you so much for your kind comments on "November impressions III". The photo was taken with Konica Minolta Dimage A200, F -10, 1/15s, ISO 50 + graduated neutral density filter. Stay tuned.

Ewa

Hi Milo,
Thanks for your comments on Dancing on Ice, much appreciated. This one was taken within the Christmas-NewYear period, in Antwerp, so, those are rentals, indeed. I don't know the people in the picture, they're strangers.

Thanks for your comment
Tim

Like i said in boston Pizza..... I hate you!

i just wanted to leave a permanent black mark on your record here for evil deeds done involving this site.

i see my last comment elicted no response. lol.

yes you should get into this x-country stuff, its a great time too. and on the last pic, i didnt do anything too creative, i used 3 separate adjustments on the RAW picture, like i always do, but i didnt do anything selective.

now its my turn to bug YOU to POST something ;)

thanks for your comments on bundled up I'm glad you liked it

Hello Milo, thank you for commentin "Playing music", your comments are much appreciated ;)

Thanks for the comment on Lampy In The Sky With Diamonds, it's greatly appreciated! It was shot from the east side of the building across the street half a block north of Teatro.

Milo, thank you very much for your comment on "Strolling Down The Leaf" I'm honored.
Thanks again,
Jess

Milo, thanks for checking out my series on the Spyder and commenting on Spyder. Your comments and critiques are greatly appreciated! Hmm, very good point with the mirror. When I was cropping I didn't even notice it :S, was more concentrated elsewhere.

Hi Milo
Thanks for your comments on They call me Mellow Yellow - a spur of the moment shot, so not much time to set anything up! Kate

Gosh....I am slow seeing that people leave comments on my work...and only just now saw you left one on my Ladybug pic for my little girl. Thanks, Milo! What an honor! and yes..here in Fl..we have some pretty weird bugs....{and won't even mention the people...:) Thanks again! / Terri/MM

for all my fire images i shot with the 50mm at f/4 ISO 400 for 1-2 seconds. i simply put the flash on TTL on camera, it worked quite well as you can see. It would have been alot superior to put it off camera and on the correct manual exposure because then it flashes half as much saving battery, and also lessening the camera's confusion when scott started using 1 remote to fire both the camera's on TTL, causing the preflashes to overlap, and the exposure to work AWEFUL (see the images of myself ;)) the flash power is very dependant on distance, so i thought TTL works fairly well, baring the preflash for every stinkin exposure. the f/stop and ISO were pretty ideal i thought tho, just the right amount of burn-out in the fire :)

Scott bought a D70 from a friend for $500 a couple months ago w/ the kit, i'm kinda jealous haha 30% price lol. sell the lens for what i did and it woulda been a sub $250 camera lol. ya he was using it with the onboard flash aswell, it kinda sucked. lesson learned: only use 1 camera with a flash at a time :)

Yes that would have work EXCELENTLy but i was spinning, and i thought it was stupid to use 2 camera's simultaniously anyways, and i didnt really care. really scott should have just used my camera which had the exposure pretty much dead on anyways. none of his really worked out, the SB600 is majic :D

when you post your rework i'll take mine down. do you somehow want to get my .psd (82Mb) so you can take the bits you like?

Hello MiLo_Anderson,

Thanks for commenting on my Watermark Tutorial I greatly apreciated it:)

and yes there is a way to extract the watermark when you open up the program JPHS and open your jpeg picture, click on the seek button at the top. Type in your pass phrase into the box and there you go!

I hope this info is useful to you:)

Hey MiLo_Anderson,
Canada must be beautiful, i have only been there once, but your pictures are amazing, thanks for the map.
Shanon

Hey Milo thanks for stopping by and commenting on Blurred Vision, it's greatly appreciated! My new lens is the Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM. It's pretty stinkin' sweet, so good in low light!

Hey Milo, thanks for checking out 1 vs 15, your comments are greatly appreciated!

Hey Milo ; thx for the comment on uot of the deep .

Well ; some do get away :-) .
But the key is patience and choosing the right time : i like to go out for bugs when it is light but no sun or after the rain , but anytime when it is light and cool is good ( they are less active then ).
95% of my macro shots is with a tripod ( this one isn't )
After a while you also get better at sneaking up on them .

Kristof

yeah thats what i thought at first, i have a couple other compositions of the same one that have some other problems, (this one i had to clone out a fair size tree) and i find after a while it doesnt bother me. i'm not really the centre of attention in this picture, and there are some reasonably strong lines created on the 1/3rds by other more dominant features.

i think alotogether mine cost about 130 shipped from hong kong, its got all those fancy coatings too which i see as a bit of a benefit, although hoya's a bit stupid and the filter is allowed to rotate or come out of the holder if the very small ring which threads inside the filter holding the element comes loose. no biggie tho

Hey Milo, thanks for stopping by and commenting on Park Guard, it's greatly appreciated! I see what you mean about the headspace. There defiantely was room to tilt the camera down, in this case it would show off more of the lion's body. Although I was going for a slightly different composition (top left third and third approx middle of the head), I can see the value in decreasing the headroom (I almost always forget about that unless I overfill the frame with a head). Thanks again for the comments/critique!

i hope you gave it a 10!

Thank you for the comments & advice on "Jekyll Island Sunrise" - always appreciated! :) Elizabeth

no, thats just what the shape of the splash looks like here...

theres no way i'd bring a tripod along for 5 days of backpacking like that. The majic for those shots is a 10mm lens,and around a 1/10s shutter speed.

I was also holding the camera near the ground, so that helped me brace my elbows.

with a grand old c-index of 78 lol

haha well I was just wondering how you captured such a fast moving image with such quality. I'm still new to photography so I appreciate the info :)

Milo,

Thanks for stopping by and commenting on A Couple's Paradise. Yeah, it's well worth it to go to the top...about 3.5-4 hours round trip with some time at the top. Plus it's not very difficult either. It's actually not crooked, but does appear so. Rather there is a small hill to the left and the valley floor and creek to the right.

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