I've been here since 2005 and I'm STILL working on focus. The problem is, pictures look great on the tiny screen on the back of our camera for the second and a half they show up after taking the pic. But once looking at a full screen version of it, sometimes things are fuzzy. Eeek!

The only other words of advice I always tell myself is "think Arashikage photography."

This does not mean to do a ninja kick while snapping the pic, or reciting Zen riddles while you try to do Tommy's finger-knitting symbols and snapping a pic with your pinky finger....

It means, like Storm Shadow, train to see what is beyond the target. This awareness can help you remove out of scale debris, or realize some piece of patio furniture is behind the intended shot... Stormy doesn't want to shoot the glider-rocker by mistake, and neither should I. (Seriously, you have no ideas how many pics I have deleted...And I posted some of the ones that should have been deleted...)

But then again, I'm not the pot or the kettle...I'm the chimney soot.

I just want to encourage you to keep shooting and things will continue to improve. I have received lots of constructive criticism, and its great.

If people didn't care whether we got better or not, there might be no replies at all...