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Americans are now banned from 87 countries.
As if it couldn't get any worse! I was just reading an online article that Americans are now banned from 87 countries. Our Italy trip for this year was cancelled and we were just about to book another Tauck trip when all this started. It looks like we will be waiting a bit longer before rebooking anything. 
JohnS
Re: We Booked our Antarctica trip for December 2020
Claudia Sails
12:40PM
And now you know why I only take pictures with my phone. Cannot be bothered to learn how to use a camera really well. But kudos to those of you who do.
I went in the other direction. Used to have a "real" camera. The convenience, small footprint, and good picture quality led me to abandon the SLR for my cell phone.
BKMD
Re: We Booked our Antarctica trip for December 2020
Great photos. With the covid situation I've been self soothing with puppy videos. These will do as well.
Claudia Sails
Re: Who Will Get The Vaccine?
I think the first to get the vaccine will be retired military pilots, and retired airline pilots over the age of 74 and anyone who lives in the same house. (;-) Really, only kidding. I think the caregivers will be first, and the most vulnerable will follow. Or it could just be like the new shingles vaccine ... you sign up and get on a wait list. For us it took five or six months to get the two vaccinations.
Sealord
Re: Sept 4-19 2019 Botswana, South Africa & Zambia Tour
The facial marking is different, so I don’t think it is a color variation of an Oryx. I really do remembered seeing a nature show with something that looked very similarly to an oryx but can’t even think of how to google it. It’s not any of the other suggestions And it’s not a Bongo either. I’ll keep looking for a bit longer, I’ve only had one glass of wine.
British
Re: Who Will Get The Vaccine?
If the distribution of vaccine follows the practice of testing, the first to receive the vaccine will be professional athletes.
BobHamburger
Re: We Booked our Antarctica trip for December 2020
you are all just so FUNNY today!!! 
Thanks for your vote of confidence!!! lol YES I took the lens off. and I even turned the camera ON!!!!
Geez...... 
cathyandsteve
Re: We Booked our Antarctica trip for December 2020
LOL... Well it could have been...I won't deny that!!! I have noticed it has trouble focusing....I have tried it in several modes as well as manual. It does a good job....and I like it. But I sure was disappointed when i did not get one single picture of that baby hyena!
Last year on our way to Yellowstone...I was the one taking pictures along the way....and I tried to get a buffalo in a field of the Theodore Roosevelt national park in North Dakota. I could hear the camera making noises and I kept snapping...but they were so blurry. I think we were just going too fast and it could not focus and what i was hearing was it working its little guts out trying to focus.
Anyway, I don't claim to be a photographer and I will never be as serious about it as Steve is...but we do work pretty well together as a team. I have a really good eye. Steve just does not see the things I see and once i point it out he does a great job capturing the shot. One time in Costa Rica....I kept trying to tell him where the sloth was in the tree. He never did see it...just started shooting in the direction he thought i was pointing to....lol He did not get it...lol
cathyandsteve
Re: We Booked our Antarctica trip for December 2020
cathyandsteve
12:15PM
. . . Steve got several wonderful shots with his camera...I got nothin. Total black. Of course his camera is older but it is a huge upgrade from mine.
Are you sure it was the camera and not the operator?
AlanS
Re: We Booked our Antarctica trip for December 2020
Cathy - I have to jump on the bandwagon.
Steve got several wonderful shots with his camera...I got nothin. Total black. Of course his camera is older but it is a huge upgrade from mine.
Did you remember to take the lens cover off your camera?
Smiling Sam