"I was walking my son home from pre-school when I saw this cat sitting on a table, alongside a pottery-sculpted cat in a neighbor's front yard," said Neville Jones. "I liked how they struck almost identical poses..."

Neville captured the shot with his Canon 400D and a EF-S 60mm f/2.8 macro lens -- ISO 100, Aperture Priority, f/13 at 1/80th of a second.

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"Here's a grab shot I took in June while on a walk over the Williamsburg Bridge from Manhattan to Brooklyn," said Jim Stocking. "The bridge divides the human powered traffic into a bike lane and a walking lane. They use pictograms painted on the roadbed to remind you which one is which. I was amused to find a wag had given one of the walkers this cigar to smoke."

Jim captured this grab shot with his Canon PowerShot S80.

Editor's note: I'm not 100% sure that he's smoking a cigar...

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"This image is from a series of shots taken in Madrid during a July '07 Novillada, a bullfight involving young and less experienced bullfighters, also called Novillos," said Michel Bricteux. "This is part of their training to become real Toreros. The Novillo, captured here in a moment of extreme levitation under the incredulous bull's stare, actually recovered from his pirouette, got back on his feet and, proud as he was, continued the fight until the end, winning the public's acclamation.

As a passionate amateur photographer living in Spain, I found bullfighting an extremely graphic subject, where ancient tradition mixes with colors, shapes, and movement.

Michel used a Nikon D200 with a 80-200mm f/2.8 lens.

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"Taken in July in downtown Denver, Colorado at the annual "Piazza del Arte" street fair, where artists spend two days for hours on end to create works of art with chalk on the street -- simply amazing stuff!" says Paul Leasure. "Took the photo in early evening under a nice cloud cover."

Paul used a Nikon D70s with his zoom set to 18mm. The settings were 1/200th at f-7.1.

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"Forrest fires in Central Oregon are a part of daily life," says Buck Heim. "This person takes a moment to notice just how close this burn is to town, while her teammates focus on marching their Outrigger to the banks of the Deschutes for an afternoon practice."

"There’s not a lot to this shot other than grabbing my camera and firing. I stopped down the lens to get some depth and maybe get the shutter slow enough to pick up some motion."

Buck captured this grab shot with his Nikon D200 and a 50mm lens. The settings were 1/80th at f-11

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"Here's a genuine grab shot," says Steve Cooper. "I didn't have the camera with me and had to race home to get it, hoping that the car would still be looking just as lost as when I first spotted it. Fortunately that was the case."

Steve used a Canon PowerShot Pro1 set to 1/100th at f-3.5. The focal length was 30.5 mm

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"Berlin is Germany's largest melting pot, a place that became home to people from all over the world," says Jan Bölsche. "Each year in May, the city celebrates its cultural variety with the "Karneval der Kulturen" (Carnival of Cultures), which takes place in the streets of Kreuzberg, the district with the largest percentage of non-german inhabitants."

"I managed to grab this shot using a 450mm equivalent tele lens in aperture priority mode. Having mounted such a long lens on my Sony Alpha 100 got me in trouble a few seconds later though, when a couple of beautiful dancers right in front of me invited me to take their photo being all smiles. All I could do was to shrug in regret and let the moment slip away."

Jan set his A100 to ISO 400. The shutter/aperture settings were 1/500th at f-6.3 with pattern metering mode. No flash.

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"Got my first DSLR for Father's Day and have been quite trigger happy since," said Daniel Szecket. "It's a Nikon D80 with the 18-55mm lens. I took this picture in the car, on the road, on the way up to Canada to get my children back from the grandparents where they had been staying while we searched for houses in Pittsburgh."

Daniel set his D80 to Aperture Priority (f-3.5) with an ISO of 100. He then loaded the image into Aperture and adjusted the contrast and saturation slightly to give it a bit more drama.

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"I grabbed this shot, killing time, in the train with a wondurful mixture of cold window light and warm tungsten or halogen," said Chris Wesseling. "Wide open, aperture priority. Focussing so close gives you a lot of room to play with depth of field. Even though in color it's a pretty monochromatic image, I chose a toned B&W to lay even more emphasis on the softness of it all. The hanky, the slumber, the skin, the focus."

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"Some friends and I were celebrating the 4th of July by exploring an abandoned gold mine here in Alaska," said Erik Halfacre. "The last man was a ways behind us and was carrying a 2 million candlepower spotlight. As I looked over my shoulder after exiting the mine I saw the way the light was illuminating the dense fog, so I set my camera down on the ground in shutter priority mode with the speed set to about 2 seconds and got this shot."

And you nailed it nicely, Erik. Shutter priority mode is handy for these types of shots. You can learn more about it by checking out Podcast 87, Aperture and Shutter Priority.

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