Well, thank you very much Quacker !
My first pictures were nothing to scream about....lol...it's a process of learning by trial and error...and LOTS of pics ! I can't say how many I trash before I get a few that are decent enough to keep. But I will say, that the throw aways are getting less and less as I learn.
Can't wait to see some of your pics Quacker....if you aren't sure about how to post them here....all you need to do is find a site to host your pics...(where they have an "upload" feature where you can upload your pics from your computer to the site) Photobucket is a good site and it's free, but there are many others out there.
After you upload your pics to the album site....just put the url to that pic between these brackets [img]
www.whatever.com[/img] on the reply page...and your pics should show up here.