Hello, my people!

[jharker]

I am a raw beginner here in the desert California Southland, where the weather is warm and the light horrific. I am starting small with a Panasonic Lumix F-18 and my humble, but much loved, Kodak Z712.

May a thousand blessings shower upon the head of the person who invented the polarizer filter!

Jenny Harker

[jerryph]

lol... someone knows how to make an entrance! Have you started the course yet?

Welcome to the board!

[dkippen]

Wow - what an entrance. Jenny, welcome to the group. Don't spose you'd want to send some sunshine and warmth our way would you??

Look forward to seeing your pictures.

[LensBaby]

Welcome to our wonderful group. You will find us a very friendly group that is willing to help anyone find the information they are looking for, as well as give CC. Join right in and post some photos!

[ladyups]

Welcome aboard, Jenny...just send some of those photos of that horrible light...we can all use some sun here. We don't care if its horrible light or glorious light, we just want some...:D

Looking forward to seeing your work.

[daltoned]

Welcome Jenny from the Emerald Green Isle. I was beginning to think that the snow was everywhere in the USA. Enjoy the forum and get all the help you need from the friendliest group on the web.
EddieD

[jharker]

I have started the course. So far it is well written and easily understood.

Anyone, please take as much of this desert light as you want! It is a harsh, hot yellow guaranteed to suck the color out of anything. The best time to photograph here is just before the sun peeks over the hills at dawn and right after it goes down.

For those interested, truly beautiful light can be found in Lompoc Valley on the Central Coast of California. Not at high noon, of course! But even then the light is far kinder than it is here in the Southland.

In the early morning and in the late afternoon in Lompoc the sunlight cannot be beat. The twilight sky turns violet with a touch of turquoise.

I say this not as an experienced photographer (which I'm not) but as an experienced gardener, writer, and observer of life.

I'll stop talking now. I need to get back to reading the course.

[Snappers]

Hi Jenny, Welcome to the forum.