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Dear Baby Girl,
Happy Birthday!
Another year gone by since you came into my life.  Watching you grow is amazing, you are amazing!

Over the past year, you had a number of firsts – You had your first ride on a “quarter horse”, you played skee ball for the first time, went into the ocean, got your first hair cut and more.  And now I even tag this post with toddler, but I’m still calling you my baby girl! Read more…

Maybe this is posted elsewhere, maybe it isn’t, but I’d like to call attention to the “I have a screen so I’ll use it at arms length to compose my photo”, or IHASSIUIAALTCMP. I’d recommend, NUTCAAL, “Not using the camera at arms length”, and, at least I can pronounce NUTCAAL. OK, silly new acronyms aside, what I’m talking about is folks who insist on using their cameras while holding it with arms fully extended.

With so many P&S cameras leaving out the optical viewfinder, providing less than full coverage in the viewfinder, or DSLR’s with “live-view”, it seems that this practice has become an epidemic.
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