Hey there Bartus.
Your english is fantastic!
I speak with some people on MSN from other countries too, and yes. Au Naturale is way better, I guess I'm for photo editing and effects, its just so pleasing to get a shot outdoors that you don't need to do much messing around with.
Being from the UK we also have that import problem on Joes. Nobody (official) ships to the united kingdom either so usually we get a US Friend to help us out
Do you have a digital camera yet?
Rich