Oh I know know about the notebooks (not just some photographers, MOST did) - used to carry one myself. Look in just about every photo publication and you'll see their shoting data - it's made that much easier with the EXIF data. But look at most of the data and you'll read something like 1/125th at f8 - nothing Earth-shattering there. 9 times outta 10 it's simple data like that. Not something like (in broad daylight) setting their camera to ASA 1000, shooting 1/4000 at f22 so they could not only freeze everything in sight, but have a tremendously deep focus. Or using ASA 50, and shooting 1/4th sec at f16 so they could get the water motion-blurred yet just slow enough so the greenery doesn't obviously motion-blur in the mild wind on an overcast day. Learn, learn, learn! I am ALL for sharing info, but people are now able to publish their shooting data and sound professional when they're using a digital point&shoot - when if you and I went out there with our DSLRs we wouldn't have nearly the same data with our shots. And how many people shoot manually these days? We live in a world where just about everything is in "Program" mode (or the Canon "green box") where the camera completely takes over, or Aperture Priority or Shutter Priority - I'm not knocking these because they're truly helpful, but 1/2 of the shooting equation is left to the camera, not a purposeful choice on the shooter's behalf because of something they specifically wanted to achieve - unless they NOTE that they specificaly wanted THIS F-stop or THIS shutter speed to acheive THIS effect. And... as you may have guessed... this could ONLY be shared in the image's description - not the EXIF data - which is why I don't care if it's shared in the data of an image if someone right clicks on my post and chooses "Save Picture As" to their hard drive.