Whewwww!! Like I don't spend enough time looking at things. thanks....I think. LOL

For an 8mp camera, I finally got a 2gb card and shoot RAW, you don't need quite as large a card for JPG. Still, at events, I sometimes do shoot in JPG and was filling a 1gb card in 1/2 hour, the 2gb card filled up in about an hour doing some street shots and a parade in RAW. It's best to set the camera to the finest quality possible unless they are shots where you need a whole lot but the quality isn't critical. You can't ever get lost quality back on your important shots. Then there are the bigger cards. The reason I don't want to get into larger sizes is that if the card gets corrupted, you lose more photos, plus they are a lot more expensive. I have had good luck with my Kingston cards which were cheap and slower, now I have one Sandisk Ultra II, both seem to be pretty reliable. There was trouble with some brands. Those things are so tiny, it would be so easy to lose the extra ones. I need a better plan to try to avoid that. Be sure to order the right card for the cam. They either take CompactFlash or SD (or proprietary memory sticks), and it would be easy to make a mistake on that.

I got this recipe years ago, but I can't remember where except that it seems that it was in California in a grocery store. Please try it, you won't be sorry. FRUITCAKE HATER'S FRUITCAKE 2 cups soft butter 2 1/4 cups firmly packed light brown sugar 1 cup honey 10 eggs 4 cups flour 2 t cinnamon 2 t baking powder 1 t ground allspice 3/4 t salt 2 1/2 lbs glazed apricots, sliced 1 lb pecan halves 1 1/2 lbs pitted dates, sliced 1 lb raisins 1 cup apricot nectar 1/2 cup light cream 1 T lemon juice 1 cup brandy 1/4 cup orange flavored liqueur In a large bowl cream together butter, brown sugar and honey. One at a time add the eggs beating well after each addition. Into another bowl, sift together flour, cinnamon, baking powder, allspice and salt. Then stir half the mixture into the sugar, egg mixture. In remaining flour, dredge apricots, pecans, dates, and raisins. In a bowl combine nectar, cream and lemon juice. Add this to the mixed batter, then fold in the nut, fruits and flour mixture. Butter and flour 4 9X5 loaf pans. Evenly divide the batter between the loaf pans. Bake at 250 for 2 1/2 - 3 hours. Remove from oven and pans to cool. In a bowl combine brandy and liqueur. Sprinkle each loaf with 1/4th of this mixture and let stand 1 hour. Wrap well in foil and let season in the refrigerator for at least 1 week. Edited to correct spelling. This post was edited by walnutcreek on Wed, Dec 4, 13 at 12:48

Cynic great post! Especially the part about the set up photos with the silly backdrops or props. (I feel the same way about baby pics BTW). Give me people who look like themselves any day. I don't send Christmas cards any longer so we only get a few. The photo cards are printed on such cheap stock that they tear while being removed from the envelope. I do save and enjoy the nice old fashioned cards I get. The rest hit the shredder. Worst Xmas card award goes to a relative of DH. He prints out a mass sermon. Just like those long winded mass Xmas letters that some people send out only it's s a sermon. At the end there is a line or 2 about what he is doing and how the sermon he wrote applies to him. LOL If he were a man of the cloth I "might" understand but basically he's what I would call a fanatic. If I want to hear a sermon I'll go to church thank you. We LOL, shake our heads and SHRED!