a local museum that looks at the life in the coal mines.

Ford Model T headlights

This is the hood ornament on a friend's 1950 Pontiac. It was past sunset and I was losing light fast. I had to shoot with my Olympus 55mm f1.2. I used 1/30 sec @ f2. I did the image circle then added the borders with PaintShop Pro XI after I resized and resharpened with Olympus Master 2.0.

This is my second attempt at taking insects in the macro mode, my first being a black ants on a flower posted couple weeks ago, which lost the details in compressing the file, its a real learning curve in processing these files and still mentaining sharp details, but with the wealth of info that one get's from this site it doesn't cost nothing to keep on trying, and one day you'll be happy to know that you now master what was so difficult to do in earlier times.

At a birthdy dinner. Just another random picture without much preperation.