Thank you so much!  Congrats to everyone else for excellent images.

WOW  Thank you!!!!  

And what a wonderful selection for this week!

We are surrounded by so much talent it's just inspiring!

Congrats everyone!

Thank you so much for choosing one of mine!
All very beautiful works represented here once again!

Quote - @Celtic Lass.....Yes, it is your camera!!! 
Your D300 has a serious problem!
However, to help you out.....I would be willing to trade you my fully functional D70 for your defective D300....LOL

HEHE ;-)

ok so it's not just me haha
noticed on my upload today that the shutter speed seemed way weird

3125/1000000 it says here yet on my photoblog site it read at 3125/100

it's a nikon d300.......  it must be the camera  LOL

WOW!!! What an honour!!! Thank you so much!
Big congrats to all chosen this week!  Wonderful pieces of artwork!
Lisa

ROFL!!! I so feel your pain David!!! I feel the same way sometimes!!  Thank you so much for the good hearty laugh!

I just wanted to add a little bit here.  PeeWee05 was one of the first to give me a good constructive critique on a rose photo of mine....  I was thrilled to get it... so much in fact that I wrote her and said how much I appreciated it!  She's also been an absolute sweetheart in giving me advice on how to better use my camera and I so appreciate her time!

I'm still learning and probably will always be. That's just part of being human.  This subject came up just last week in another site that I frequent and a good point was raised.  Very simply a gentlemen stated that there is a huge difference between giving a constructive critique and a critical critique.  I think he had a very valid point.  It's hard sometimes to interpret words on the internet since we can not "see" or "hear" the other person to better understand what they might mean.  Emotes help but still sometimes it's hard to tell.  I guess just be real with eachother and kind in your choice of words and if there is something about someone's critique that you don't understand message them and simply ask.

On one last note - giving a good constructive critique is a learned thing - I know a lot of my first comments here and on other sites were a lot of the "nice capture" and "wow" variety but from reading other's comments I'm learning more each day how to better put into words what it is that I like or don't like about someone's work.  My former color and design class instructor would be proud LOL.  That was the part of the class that I stunk at completely LOL.  Still sometimes when pressed for time I fall back into the short two or three word comments.

oh and btw - constructive critiques are more than welcome on my gallery.... 
I think I might add that text to my notes under each upload as well it's a good idea :-)  
I also give my vote for the extra flashing text bar that says YES I really want a critique LOL

Thanks for your time :-)
Lisa

Many thanks for this great honor and congratulations to all represented in this week's selections.  I'm still in a state of WOW here!
Cheers all, Lisa Samuels

I love this program so this kind of topic would be most helpful yes
thank you for starting it up!

I love these programs and yes it would be most beneficial to have a thread for it I think!  Great idea!