Went out today...another crappy day of winter. MA, you're welcome to my portion of the snow and ice. I'm getting tired of it. Temperature was OK, +3C, but I miss the sun. I know it started off badly because the first half dozen shots I took I didn't even notice ISO set to 1600 Didn't matter, they were all crap anyway - the noise was just overkill.

I was only out for a couple of hours but, again, I think that was fortunate because my head was just in the wrong space or something. Dropped my nifty-fifty on to some rocks 3 inches from the river. Thankfully, it's fine.

Focus was horrible on most of the shots I took. Composition lacking on most of the rest. I sort of saved these 4 with some editing in Picasa/Gimp. Oh, and did I mention I tried editing with PSE8 demo version and couldn't get past the RAW processor. Maybe if I go check out some more of those learning sites I'll do better tomorrow.

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Sorry for the rant. I'm hoping by getting it out of my system I can re-focus and do better the next time out.