No I'm not a professional photographer Colin. The camera I took those pics with is a 3.2mp Casio 3000EX and it did take excellent pics. I like to think I have a good eye for a nice pic but the beauty of it is now the camera does lie, they can be edited in a Digital Imaging programme. The camera I have just bought, but not yet used, is a 9mp Fuji FinePix S9500. It will allow me to be drastic in my cropping, which I need for my Now and Then pics, also good for macro photography. I dont know if this will work but I will load a pic I took and the same one after getting rid of the dross. If you look you will see I have cloned out the roof of the 4x4, the fence and the crows.
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