Thanks! I think it was the 54x zoom ability of my camera that helped set my pics apart from many others. The Sony Handycam also has auto-adjustments for different levels of light. All I had to do was set the light settings to "auto" and then do a full zoom - but it was difficult to keep my tripod on target and keep it still enough not to get blurry pictures. For every picture posted above, there were at least 2 or 3 that were too blurry to be any good.