Hi Fred, et al.

Fred mentioned "sending out" some photos for review. Most of the 
"semi-pro" photographers on this list have elegant web sites where 
they post their photos, but I just wanted to pass on a tip to any MD 
Osprey subscribers that sometimes run into situations where they want 
to quickly and easily share a few bird photos with others.

You might want to try the following link for setting up your own blog 
... it's the easiest thing in the world to use ... It's free and 
virtually nothing is required to register ... just email any text to 
your blog, including attached photos, and a blog entry is 
automatically generated and posted. No web expertise is required.

         http://posterous.com/

The only downside it that it doesn't allow you to caption individual 
images when you post a gallery at one time (as do pure photo web 
sites, like Flickr and Picasa).

You can also post (again, via email as attachments) documents into 
your blog entries (e.g., PDF, Word, Excel) ... I use this features 
for sharing things such as trip reports, special projects, etc.

As examples, I have several different birding blogs that I use for 
various purposes. Here are a few ...

         http://birdimages.posterous.com/

         http://tripreports.posterous.com/

         http://pdavis.posterous.com/

Usual disclaimers ...

Hope this helps ...

Phil

At 02:32 PM 12/18/2009, Fred Shaffer wrote:
(snip)
>I may send out a few of my photos this evening for a second opinion 
>and for now I'll leave it as a probable Thayer's Gull.

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