Fun with a Fujifilm Finepix SL1000

Here's a couple of shots from my balcony at trees about 75 or 80 feet or so away, across a driveway, looking for details of their cones and needles, etc.

The camera was set on fully automatic, and a 10-second shutter delay and was mounted on a Milano B-2 ball head, on a Manfrotto 190 XB tripod. The camera's zoom was set at full optical zoom of 50X, for maximum magnification.  I was trying to simulate a Macro shot from far away. These might make nice wallpapers, if you like this sort of thing.

Changing the subject, (may we please?) I got another of those seemingly constant revision notices again this morning from Glary Utilities. They've got a very useful program for one-click fixer-uppering of your computer, but today's Question Everything has to be: "Are these revisions every 15 days really all this essential or is this yet another of those well-known 'make work' projects?"

I have a hot flash for all those underemployed coders out there in cyberspace: We of the unwashed user masses have other things we'd rather do on our rigs than just overwrite existing programs with your latest twiddlings  so that you look busy when the boss walks by. Go back to watching your porn, and leave me the hell alone, OK? I'm trying to get something else done here, and the day's half shot already, thanks to you! Computers were supposed to work for us, not the other way around.