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Last week, with the encouragement of Kelly63, I took some shots of the last hummingbird of the season at our feeder (in Mindemoya, Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada). All the others had gone south, but this one kept coming for a few days longer. I hope she got safely south and didn't wait too long. Anyway, these were taken with my Canon A710IS, with exposures between 1/250 and 1/400, mostly using the Macro setting. I will post a few over the next few days. Most are cropped from a larger image.

Last month I bought a 15 inch MacBook Pro laptop, which has a pretty nice screen, but not enough screen real-estate for the things I want to do. So on Thursday I got a larger secondary monitor, a 1920 x 1200 px NEC 2690 (25.5 inch diagonal screen). I've been using my 3001 Scandinavia pictures as a screensaver. The picture changes randomly every 8 seconds or so, and does a "Ken Burns" pan and zoom randomly over the picture.In the past, I've found that this sometimes discovers for me an interesting crop that much improves the picture over the in-camera framing. What I'm finding is that on this big screen a lot of the pictures that I had dismi

I'm just back from three weeks around latitude 60N in Norway, Sweden, Finland and a day trip into Estonia. I went there with the expectation of encountering rain and sleet going sideways. There was occasional light rain for the first three days, but I was in a meeting, so my wife experienced it on my behalf, wandering about Oslo. :-) That was followed by the longest period of calm, absolutely cloudless weather I can remember experiencing in my 70+ years — a whole week that included two days in Bergen, where it is supposed to rain almost two days in three. After that, we had sunny, warm, shirtsleeve weather apart from one afternoon in Sto