Welcome to our community Tom!
I was captured by your wonderful collection of bird photography and also the flowers and bobcats without which the whole thing would stop!
I'm keen to see each specialty in photography well represented so we have the critical mass to maintain good exchange. I hope you might post some of your favorites and let us know how you approach the shot. I, for one, am fascinated and am learning about the challenges of bird photography.
I'm so impressed by the dedication of "birders". I understand their fascination with these creatures. The endless beauty of birds and the fact they don't have to go shopping to look so neat, has always impressed me.
Whether you post about approach, tachnic or the actual photographs, you will always have an eager audience. But, in my mind there is so much more that you bring to OPF.
You see, I have also a rather serious side: I look at the thriving of butterlies, frogs and birds as one of the measures of our own health and future. I have followed the efforts of Arthur Morris and others in leading an awareness of threats to ecosystems by some misjudgments of man and nature.
I therefore see nature photographers, (such as you and Andy Biggs, Arthur Morris, Don Cohen, Alain, Mike Spinak and so many other OPF members (forgive me)), as our "watchdogs". So thanks to all of you!
So, back to just you Tom: again welcome!
Asher
