i only have just a minute before we have to leave for work. just wanted to thank ya'all for your input!!! Pascale, you know how much i love your portraits!!! You do an INCREDIBLE job with them! i wish composition wasn't so difficult for me. well, i find photography in general difficult, but i sure do LOVE it!!! very very challenging though! Cindy, Richard...i rarely watch TV. we do enjoy movies though. i have terrible short-term memory problems. i could see something on TV and then have no idea what i saw. no sure it would do me any good. seeing images in print or here on the web is good when i can look and then go back and look. shooting in RAW with my cam sucks. the time it takes just to take one image...INCREDIBLE! and the space it takes...OMG... perhaps when i get another cam shooting in RAW will be better. dunno. right now i just really need to focus on shooting a better composed image. wish it wasn't so freaking hard for me! well thanks so much guys for all your input and suggestions! I so much appreciate it! Gotta run to work now! i'll think about everything you said guys! catch ya later!!! :) ya'all have a nice one! :)