These days most pictures taken for the forum are digital. As you're not using film, shooting multiple pictures costs no more than shooting just one. So after you take a picture of what you want to show, look at it. Is it a good picture? Is it in focus, lit well enough for the subject to show up, and showing what you want to show? If not, take a better one. It doesn't cost any more, and might make it easier for folks to answer your question.

All this time I thought my eyes were going bad..

Your sample photo above (or below) your message sure is clear Steve <@^@>

Can I add that everyone who has not as yet found the 'Macro' setting on their camera
please take a little time to do so. Clear close ups down to a few inches are possible.

Regards
Art

I realize that picture taking isn't everyone's forte' necessarily, but I always get a chuckle out of the CraigsList ads where the pics are sideways because they held the camera that way and then don't know enough to click the little icon at the bottom of the pic in the viewer (you don't even have to have it in an editor to do this) to turn it.

I really hate that when people think they are gonna do you a favor and take "cute" picture of you with the camera turned so it is 45 degrees so you have to put the picture like a diamond to see it right. Makes it hard to post or put in an album or whatever.
My kids are always doing that and I just throw the pictures away.
How about the ones on Craigslist that are taken so close to the object that you can't see what it looks like. Like a close up of the grill on a car for example. Or with a couple of people or dogs standing in front of it.
I have taken a few pictures of interesting cars that I tossed because my wife wanted to have her picture taken with the car.
In most cases she didn't look good in the picture and I couldn't see the car because of her.

Speaking of Craigslist, I was van hunting a lot the past couple of years.
So many adds did not mention the make, full sized or minivan, if it was an automatic or stick or even the year.
Without a picture it is a useless add.

How about this: '89 Van 190,000 miles runs great, just needs transmission. $1200.

Good picture =1000 words.

Bad picture =1000 questions.

In this picture I took of Santa when we were in Jamaice I made a mistake and Santa was under-exposed. In this case I should have taken another picture and got closer and/or zoom in on Santa.

... or maybe not!

Chris;
That picture is perfect.

There's a Santa in that picture???

Anyone seen my handkerchief?

Ok Ok I know you liked it better the other way - Stop Booing !!

Unfortunately, my wife carries the camera. I need her to tell me what button to push to take a picture. So, I get whatever she takes.

When we went to Europe, we visited some people with the same last name. They might be distant relatives? They were very nice people and it would have been nice to get a picture of them. She took a picture of their clock! That was what interested her.

So, anyway, I am fortunate to have at least some pictures with Model T's
Norm

Thanks a lot Art !!

hahaha! Sorry Art, this is the one time where you DIDN'T improve the pic!

Dang...gotta love Christmas in Jamaica...

Perhaps I should take back my earlier suggestion for folks to learn
to use the macro setting –
I can see it now – “Well Art said to use the macro setting” . . . SLAP . . .
<@^@>

Santa might be under exposed but some of the other folks are over exposed!

On thing that I have noticed when a picture or pictures are included in a post is that it makes a difference how you space the text.

When you upload a picture, a line including the word popjpeg{number} is added to your text. If you leave it wherever it ends up in the edit screen, the text can wrap strangely around the picture (like this).

If, on the other hand, you put a line before and a line after the picture, then the text in the final post looks normal.



It comes out like this.

Dick, Nice Fording Ford picture!

Jay, that was taken on the Kentucky Fall Foliage Tour in 2006. There is a bridge just to the right of the picture, but fording was an option the route planners added to the instructions. The three St Louis cars (Lodge, Meek, Gilbane) went through three or four times. (Hey, old cars and playing in puddles... what's not to like?) I gave my camera to Marge Meek and she took this photo. It's one of my favorites and is the desktop picture on my computer.

Thanks for hints Dick, now all we need is for everyone to remember or try to do it!

Dick, that's an awesome picture!

Hey Dick
You give new meaning to the phrase:
"I'll cross that bridge when I come to it"