Saturday Self-Challenge: In honor of our second anniversary as a group, choose something you've learned in SSC and take a photo using this technique.

I chose long exposure for this challenge because I learned so much about the relationship between exposure time, F-stop and ISO. It wasn't until after I took this image and my camera battery went dead that I saw I forgot to remove the polarizing filter off the lens! I wonder how different my settings would be had I removed it before snapping this photo!

These tiny teddy bears are part of a large collection of miniature bears I collected about 20 years ago. They range in size between one and two and half inches (2.4 cm - 6.35cm).

Many thanks to all my fellow group members for two years of fun and learning together, and Happy Anniversary, SSC!

~Thank you so very much for your comments and faves, my friends! You are most kind! ~