My image

[rpcrowe]

I seldom shoot myself but, the background was so pretty that I set up my camera on a tripod and used the self timer to shoot this image. Well, here I am for what it's worth. I wish that I had removed the lens cap!

[Daisy Mae]

Hello Richard, so nice to put a face to a name.

[Digital]

Nice photo. You look friendly.


Bruce

[Mike Buckley]

You could have moved Yosemite Falls a little to the left. Great smile!

[Donald]

Good on you, Richard.

One of the advantages of operating with two bodies - hold one and use the other to take the pic.

I envy you having been there.

[GeorgeM]

Nice selfie, Richard!

[rpcrowe]

You could have moved Yosemite Falls a little to the left. Great smile!

Actually, on one of the shots, I had the falls pouring into my hat. That's as bad as having a tree growing out of one's head.

Yosemite is a magical place and had always been on my list of "must photograph" places. I am glad that I took the opportunity of visiting it and, although I love traveling with my wife, it was refreshing to visit there alone and spend as much or as little time as I wished for each place in the park. Also on my bucket list is Yellowstone National Park and Grand Tetons National Park. I can do both of them on one trip. I have been to Washington, D.C, several times but never had the opportunity to photograph there, that's another spot on my list. I could return to Utah many-many times and never exhaust the photographic potential of that marvelous state.

Internationally; I'd like to return to the Philippines. I lived there for a while but, that was in the pre-digital dark ages.

And, I want to visit England, Ireland and Scotland (not necessarily in that order). I have deep seated roots in all three countries but, I know more about my Scottish ancestry that I do of my English or Irish roots. It would be enjoyable to combine my genealogy with photography...

For some reason, although at least half of my heritage is German (maternal grandparents both came from there), I have no great desire to travel in Germany.

My wife wants to visit Massachusetts. Her ancestors arrived with the first Puritans around 1620 and a hundred and fifty or so years later, another one of her ancestors, a Minuteman, was killed by the first volley of British musket fire at Concord Bridge (no hard feelings!). That made him one of the very first Americans killed in the American Revolution.

[Brownbear]

Nice to see the handsome smiling face behind all those beautiful photos...

[Shadowman]

Very nice.

[Dusty]

Richard we are thousands of miles apart but through cyberspace I can see your smiling face with a gorgeous BG.
Dave.

[gregj1763]

Hi Richard, nice to see your face
I was at Yosemite when I was 15 with my parents. Amazing place, the trees were enormous and I can still remember the tour guide pointing out two small dots on the cliff face behind your head that were climbers that had been on their way up for three days so far. Incredible place

[Manfred M]

Hmm. Bears some resemblence to your Avatar, albeit with less hair and no black nose...


It's nice to see what you really look like.

M

[John 2]

Pleased to meet you Richard even if we only shake hands electronically.

[rpcrowe]

I usually have four or five Maltese and my Golden Doodle sitting on the couch with me. Today, I counted a total of ten dogs who had jumped on the couch with me. Nine Maltese and my Goldendoodle, Holly. I asked my wife to get her cell phone to shoot a record picture. She couldn't find her phone but brought her Canon P&S camera, the complexities of which she has never mastered.

I noticed that she seemed to be pointing the camera a bit towards my left (image right) and I asked her to please get the entire couch in so we could have a record of the ten dogs sitting with me. She said that she was getting the entire couch in and I accepted that. The flash did not fire (because the windows to the rear of the couch were bright) with her first shot.



I asked her to enable the flash which she did not know how to do and brought the camera over to me to set it up. Several of the dogs thinking she was bringing a treat jumped off the couch - end of photo session.

When I saw the image I was not at all surprised that it was fuzzy since she was shooting in very dim light with no flash. However, I asked her why she had cut off the side of the couch with three Maltese on the other side of Holly. he said, the couch cover we use to cover the seat cushion didn't look good and she didn't want anyone to see it.

Oh well, I have a fuzzy-graph of seven dogs on the couch...

[tbob]

Good you could get to Yosemite when the light was so good. Would have been rather tragic to go if the valley was completely socked in with low cloud and fog. But then maybe the photos would be even more dramatic.

Nice to have a face to connect with you. People are extremey visually oriented to facial features; probably because we are such a social species and faces are big time signallers of emotional state. Very important to be able to read the faces of your compatriots. Wouldn't be as interesting if if was a picture of your foot.

[AB26]

Fill flash, Richard, you forgot to use fill flash.
No, you are a much better doggy photographer.

Pleased to meet you sir. Nice to see the face behind the doggy images.