Hallo TomDart,

The only camera I have is a Nikon Coolpix S4 and I am VERY satisfied with it. Take a look at my gallery, all the pictures there are made with it.
It has a 10x Optical Zoom which is very good, and you can rotate the objective (or lens or whatever the word is) what allows you to take pictures from interesting angles.
6.0 Megapixel make sure the quality of the shot is very good and the camera has several different modes you can choose from.
I'm afraid I don't know, what you mean by "capturing RAW". If you mean that you don't want to rework or machine finish (man, so many difficult words!) a picture then I can assure you that you don't have to with this camera.
The only bad thing about it is, that it is pretty big, so nothing for the trouser pocket.
The camera uses batteries and no accumulator.

As I said I am very happy with my camera AND it has an absolutely reasonable price, really not expensive (at least when I bought it in Germany..).

I hope I could help! Good luck with the decision!

Katja

Nothing compared to your pictures, but has some similarities.

Hallo everyone!

Sorry for.... ähm.... interrupting? I'd like to join the challenge, I hope it's still on. I am totaly new to the whole community (and my English is terrible), but I hope that's no problem.
I am also not sure about how to get my picture into this forum o.O'.

Please work, please work, please work...

I know that the topic says it has to be graceful. From my point of view this poor animal still has something graceful, but, sure, I'm often alone with my opinion. So if it doesn't fit or if you think it is displeasing please delete it.

Thank you and have a great creative day!