I cannot cope with the technical side of things, I use a digital and
just wander round the garden snapping away at whatever catches my
eye,
mostly the flowers and recording what and where I have got plants, I
tend to lose stuff!

If you are using a digital camera, all the talk of tri- and unipods is
almost certainly irrelevant, since any self-respecting digital camera
would be equipped with electronic anti-shake features. I have taken
perfectly sharp hand-held pictures at a focal length equivalent to 200
mm on a 35 mm camera. This would have been quite impossible with a
film camera.

What you say is almost certainly correct, people have been and are very
helpful with their comments re. flowers and photography. I think that
maybe at the beginning of the thread I did not say I was using a
digital, however no matter, one of my daughters is interested in
photography but was not very interested in gardening but she is now
peering at my plants with great interest and that makes me smile:-)

kate