>>> VicXnews wrote:
>>>> Happy Birthday Laurel and Wanda...hope it's a great one!

>>> Thank You. I usually ignore BDays. But I am taking the day off to go
>>> to the county fair. =)
>>>  I volunteered to sit with the photography exhibit  for a couple of
>>>  hours
>>> instead of working.
>>> Have to check out the competition. I hear I got 3 firsts, a second
>>> and 2 honorable mentions out of my 8 entries.

>>> I posted 7 of them:
>>> http://www.terraholm.com/photos/page8.htm

>>> I had one more but can not remember what else I entered...

>>> We all got beat out by my friend's 7 year old granddaughter for best
>>> in show out of over 800 photos.
>>> First time anyone from the youth division won BIS.
>>> No more letting the twins use our cameras instead of their little
>>> fisher price ones when I am around...;-)

>> well congrats...all your photos are fantastic...

> Thank you kind sir.

>> I couldn't resist after looking at yours and Alson's photos a couple
>> of weeks ago and decided to buy a used Canon 350 DSLR that should
>> arrive soon...I have a Brandon Master Birder 80mm f5.6 semi apo
>> triplet...should be able to hane fun with that and a 50mm f1.8 for
>> the night sky...I have a Meade ext 60mm that I will use  as a
>> piggyback platform...
>> see what you started...

> Hell I just use a fairly cheap point and shoot.  =)

> A panasonic FZ50. It is 10 megapixels with a 12X optical with IS which is
> about equal to a 300 mm even though they say 420...but set at 5 mgp it is
> 17X optical.