It's wonderful to see a camera back in your very capable hands. I hadn't fully appreciated how much extra value your photos add to the great prose of the posts, until I had to do without them for a couple days.

And you get the side benefit of nice cool tootsies, too.

Not as picturesque as the older arch-supported roadway at the left, but probably much better suited to carrying a larger volume of traffic. And yes it's okay to see beauty in it. You have my permission. :)

How to make the most of a camera with limited zoom capabilities: macro!

Wow- that yellow center looks almost artificial, or like a digital artifact. Interesting.

If I'm correct that there's a roadway about halfway up the right-hand side of the photo then switching back out of frame to create an upper level farther up the slope, "rising steeply" ain't half right. Yikes!

W0w, am I glad you got that new camera! Great pictures - Salemi looks like a paradise for photographing old doors.
Cool that you have the tilt screen. Mine has one, too, and it's very handy for getting low points of view when going into a deep squat is no longer an option.

Gorgeous!

Stay healthy you two

Trash, been a problem for a long time. Its terrible out in the Moroccan countryside, like a dump truck turned over, and yet the cities are clean, constantly swept up. We can thank Lady Bird Johnson for beautifying our highways.

Too (not) funny, my camera got stuck on zoom, but then resolved itself. Patrick thought mine was due to moisture

Thanks, Steve. Yes, I’m generally aware of all of this. Unless I get into the wrong mode by accident (such as by accidentally rotating the control dial when slipping it into my shirt), I avoid all the complexities and keep it exclusively in the iA mode. My theory is that the camera had a stroke and its Izoom is suddenly a little less intelligent. I’m sending the camera back for a CT scan when we return to Portland.

Yep. Not road-like!

I was surprised to find that on the ZS-60 digital zoom and what they call iZoom (intelligent zoom) are only selectable if not in iAuto - such as in "P". I assume you have twiddled that top dial lots in looking for something that works. But since you have in the past said that you stick with iA, you would not be getting embroiled now in digital zoom issues.

By the way, not that you want to learn about this stuff now, with the camera on the fritz, I found this on dpreview:

"It’s important to understand the difference between iZoom (IZ), Digital Zoom (DZ) and Extended Optical Zoom (EZ). As I understand it, IZ and DZ are very similar: they both “upsize” a small-size cropped image in-camera to return something with the same pixel count as an un-manipulated image. The same process can be performed – often with better results – in Post Processing by cropping an image down to a smaller pixel count, and then having the PP software re-size it back to the original pixel dimensions. IZ appears to have a better algorithm for this operation, so it gives better results than DZ."

Thanks for the encouragement, Tricia. That’s what my cardiologist said is the most likely outcome also. Looking back now, it’s probably something I should have done years ago but medications have been effective enough until fairly recently.