Thanks for sating my curiosity, Michelle. I must confess, as I stared at the images in the series, I tried to picture just (exactly) how it was done. I wondered if you had set everything up and just danced with your camera running on time lapse. Or if your daughter kept pressing the button when she thought it was a good shot. Then, I wondered if you had added the motion blur in PS (but I figured you more for doing it with camera instead of software). Final bit of curiosity (I think), how many shots did you take and how many were "keepers"? In other words, how many were "hits" and "misses"? Many years ago--when there was no such thing as Photoshop, and the dodge tool was a piece of plastic attached to a thin wire--I became very interested in photograpy. Luckily, I met someone who acted as a mentor (or sorts). He told me 2 things I'll never forget: (1) The differece between and amateur and a professional is the amount of shots they take; and (2) Think of film and paper as being free. If you worry about the costs of either, your work will never be its best. /ramble off/