> I have recently updated and added quite a few equestrian related > photos to: http://home.ca.inter.net/brooksdj
> Comments are welcomed,skin is thick these days<g> thick, eh? we'll see <g> Overall, nice photos. I tried my hand at equestrian stuff not too long ago; it was interesting. It took a few missed shots to get the timing part down, but that wasn't as bad as I thought it would be (I guess the movement is quite predictable, deterministic in fact, and they're not going as fast as I thought they would). On about 2 jumps, I also tried to exploit the 2.5 fps rate of the MZ-S just outta curiousity, and I gotta say: That approach seems like a waste of time and film. It clearly didn't stack up at all (for me) to the "one shot with good timing" approach. Overall, the hardest part was positioning myself so that my backgrounds were as nice as possible, and not particularly cluttered. I'm guessing that's a challenge in general if your not an "official photog" for the event. I got lucky since the course I was on was particularly spacious, but judging from the photos, it seems like this would be quite difficult at the courses you frequent. Of them all, I like the "Palgrave Schooling Class" gallery the most; probably due to a bit more variety of shots in that one. Along those lines, IN THEORY (i.e., "I could be wrong, but...") it seems like it would be a neat thing to get more shots of some of the other stuff that happens around the track. When I was there, that was some of the stuff that caught my eye the most. Like preparation of the horses, etc. I caught a few down-time quiet moments between horse and jockey that seemed pretty intimate and added a totally different feel to the picture set (which was less than a roll, and honestly not good enough to show off anywhere). If I was to shoot it again, I think that may be something I'd pay more attention to in order to break the monotony of all the see-the- horsey-jump photos I got. As for the website overall, it would help a lot if you added some navigation buttons to each of the galleries. Once I click on a gallery and go thru all of the photos. There's no easy way to get back to the main page to select another gallery. (Aside from re-entering the original URL), my only option is to hit the back button a bunch of times, which means that I have to go thru the same photos all over again before returning to start. Get what I mean? You already have navigation in most other places, so that's hopefully a pretty trivial (but nice) modification. I guess the other option is to have another window open when a visitor clicks on the gallery. But that's way over my head in terms of the how-to's. Oh yeah! none of the other (no horsey) gallery links worked for me... but I'm guessing you know that already. Hope that was helpful. How's that skin holding up? :o) - jerome