WE RECOMMEND: "More conversations with Remarkable Women"

   Entertaining guests royally: Julia Child, Craig Clairborn

Writing well: Robert Ludlum, Frances Mayes 

Making new friends: Jimmy and Rosalind Carter

Getting a new job in 30 days: Hal Gieseking

Starting a good conversation: Dick Cavett

Becoming a mentor to your child: Bill Moyers

Lake Country, England. Shot Oct. 10, 2007. Modified in Adobe Lightroom 1.2

  NEW DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS

•  When you have a great picture, make a copy and save the original in a separate file. Use the copy to make your jpeg files for emails and the internet. Remember that every jpeg you make of that copy is like adding a cloud of termites that devour color and pixels. The first several copies you make may look acceptable to the eye - but the image gets weaker with every subsequent jpeg.
• Don't try to delete pictures when you see a message your memory card is "full." You risk harming many other images on the card. It is safe to delete pictures as you go but not at the full mark.
• There is always a slight vibration in the camera with most hand-held shots. Set your camera to take a burst of three pictures with your finger keeping the button depressed. Two and three shots should be sharper.

    Visit Photographer's Den

   How to photograph spectacular events:

   Example - "Grand Illumination" at Colonial Williamsburg

                        Click here to watch fireworks paint pictures