so, as i mentioned in the intro page, i am by no means a professional photographer. i took one year's worth of photography classes in high school which doesn't count for much. i use a fujifilm digital camera and a canon elph powershot s410 digital camera to take my pictures. the fujifilm is only capable of 1.3megapixels, so the quality of those pictures is quite low. my elph is capable of 4 megapixels, so all of those are of better quality. all of the originals of these pictures are set for a 1024x768 resolution screen, so if you like any of these in particular and would care to use it as a background for your computer, drop me a line and i'll send you the larger image. enjoy!