We’ve produced a twenty minute video tutorial on the basics of pocket cameras. It includes operation of the camera controls like the zoom and close-up mode, coping with batteries and memory chips, and the mechanics of downloading photos into Adobe Photoshop Elements™. It’s intended for people just getting into digital photography who need an orientation to what’s going on.

For any group in motion, the trick is to catch an instant when something is happening. I took a couple of photos of a woman with a dog walking toward the bluff top. I photograph with a wide angle lens, leaving the niceties of composition to a later time, after there were images in the camera. To complete the composition a distracting auto hood had to be removed.