Lazy Graze
by Sappy

Comment by Sappy:
Thanks for all the comments.
I waited for ages for the horse to turn around but it just kept gradually moving away.
I am a bit of a novice at photography and seem to have trouble with manual focus...what looks good in the camera comes out a bit soft on the computer. I also seem to loose a bit in compressing the pictures down from 2 mb to 150 kb, but have just found some articles on how to do it better

Express
by Sappy

Comment by hortopth:
a bit high up (the train). the rest is nice though

Budding Bookworms Browsing Books Beside Bookcase
by Sappy

Comment by rcrawford:
Cute kid shot but the glare from the flash is distracting. Maybe try holding a bathroom tissue of the flash, it helps reduce the glare. Or if you just moved a bit to the left the reflection would not come strait back at the camera.

Express
by Sappy

Comment by Turbotech:
Powerlines provide for a distraction. Of Course taking a picture from the other side would provide you with blindness

Budding Bookworms Browsing Books Beside Bookcase
by Sappy

Comment by Sonifo:
Lovely shot of your kids. I would try to avoid using your flash. I never use mine unless I have too. I always use an other light source or mess with my camera settings.

Budding Bookworms Browsing Books Beside Bookcase
by Sappy

Comment by ozdick:
1 point for each of the B\'s in the title - minus one point for having the flash light being reflected :)
Also appears to be a little distortion in the photo as the side of the cupboard and the door don\'t look quite straight (or is it just my eyes going funny from looking at too many photos??)

Budding Bookworms Browsing Books Beside Bookcase
by Sappy

Comment by FranziskaLang:
Plenty of "B"s in your shot, so you definitely meet the challenge. From a photographic point of view, while you probably had to take the opportunity and take the shot fast (unless you encouraged the kids to read like that), there are many things to look out for that might make for a better photo. The reflection of the flash, cutting off the kid's legs and taking the photo from your eye-level rather than theirs are the biggest ones to me. Try take the pic from their level and somewhat from the side (or without the flash) to see the difference. With all that said and done, they are very cute on how they are picking and reading their books, definitely a keeper for the family album.

Lazy Graze
by Sappy

Comment by jillz:
the framing of your subject with the foliage is nice, but i think there is a little too much foreground.

Budding Bookworms Browsing Books Beside Bookcase
by Sappy

Comment by hortopth:
this photo will age well

Budding Bookworms Browsing Books Beside Bookcase
by Sappy

Comment by macox:
going for the most B's in the title award? focus is a little soft and there's lots of glare on the bookshelf