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My Picasa Photo Gallery allows me to create my own perameters for sharing photos on the web. I am referred to "Creative Commons" http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/ which gives me several choices with explanations: All rights reserved Attribution Attribution-NoDerivs...

I'm trying to find a backpack which I can use on photography hikes/outings. I've been looking at Lowepro packs and found THIS , a Fastpack 350, on eBags.com. Has anybody heard of or used this pack? Does anyone have any suggestions about camera backpacks I should investigate? I'm looking for a...

Dick and I traveled to Utah and Arizona last month to visit more of the amazing national parks/monuments/forest preserves/historic sites found in this part of our country. We met our friend Lani in Tucson and drove to northeast Utah with the idea of spending time in Canyonlands, Arches and...

I suggested one day that Dick and I should climb the Adirondack 46 highest peaks in a “serious way,” meaning we should complete them all, not just enjoy a few of our favorites. So we started a list and became 46er’s in the fall of 2004. We vowed ever after: NO MORE LISTS! We met Peakbagr who...

On Saturday, Feb. 7, Alan (Peakbagr) invited me to join him on a short walk in Thacher Park to introduce 15 enthusiastic Capital District residents from the Bethlehem YMCA to the winter sport of snowshoeing. We met in the Paint Mine parking lot. I arrived just as everyone was gathering, putting...

Hi All- Well, it has taken me just about a week to organize all of my photos from our Patagonia Adventure. We left the US on 1/8 and returned on 1/26 - 17 days of hiking/backpacking/touring. To say we had "fun" is an understatement and to say that the scenery was "breathtaking" is also an...

In keeping with an established hiking tradition, several of us spent New Years Eve in the Catskills. Our original plan was to camp overnight at Sundown Campground. After consulting the weather conditions which detailed high winds and low temperatures, we decided to stay at the Cobblestone Motel...

DAY 1: We had been looking forward to this backpacking/touring trip for months. Dick made the difficult decision to stay home as our departure date approached to insure that his back would continue to improve after several months of recovery from painful sciatica. I decided to go with our...

Alan, Bookah and I arrived at the Mink Hollow trailhead at approximately 8:30 a.m. Weather was predicted to be clear with a 20% possibility of afternoon showers and temps in the mid 70's. We started on the Mink Hollow Trail which passed by several camps as it followed a stream - I'm guessing the...

Hermit asked me to post a photo of a frog he took in the Catskills. Any idea as to species?

Alan, Bookah and I set out for the Plattekills yesterday morning. We decided to bring two cars (big decision because of recent heftier gas prices). We left one at the ski resort with permission from an employee who said he would watch the car, and the second on the height of land on New...

We are in the process of purchasing two solo canoes for calm water/back country paddling. How do the paddlers on VFTT protect your camera equipment but allow for easy accesss for those wildlife shots you just HAVE TO record for posterity. Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.

Peak_bagr asked me to post these 2 photos by Hermit. The first was shot on Overlook Mt. and the second at the Ashokan Reservoir where a nesting eagle pair provide fascinating observations (and photo ops) for humans. They don't seem to mind the mostly quiet and respectful humans who watch...

Question for Mac users: Is anyone familiar with Aperture editing software? The website info says: "Powerful, Aperture features a RAW-focused workflow from capture to output that makes working with RAW files as easy as JPEG. No need to convert your RAW files before doing anything with them...

It looks like the trail report falls to me this time, so ........ Dick, Alan, and I took what proved to be a shorter route from Albany area and managed to arrive a few minutes before 8:30 a.m at the Roaring Kill Trailhead. Rob pulled in a seconds later, having left home in New Jersey very early...

I'm anxious to take holiday fireworks shots using my new Canon Rebel XTi. Any suggestions as to general set-up, settings etc. ? In addition to the 17-85 mm lens I purchased with the camera I also have a 70-210 mm telephoto lens. Thanks in advance for any tips!

Hi All- Dick, Valerie and I are back from an amazing adventure to southern Utah where we backpacked into slot canyons Buckskin Gulch/Paria Canyon, hiked in Zion National Park, toured Glen Canyon Dam, visited Pipe Stream National Monument, explored an old town called Phareah and the remains of an...

I am looking for an external hard drive to back up my 7000+ digital pictures. I hope a computer technology guru on VFTT can give me some advice. How many GB's should I be looking for given my propensity for taking LOTS of digital shots. Is a firewire connection preferable to USB? (My Mac has...