Yes i have got another new camera ( a rare opportunity arose so i treated myself)
I have stuck with the fuji finepix but got a newer model
a S1800
the main attraction was bigger zoom this one is 18x,
but along with this came a extra 4 million mega pixels, face detection, smile detection, blink detection,auto zoom, and ability to take panorama's, so what i thought would be a easy transition is another new learning curve !
these are some i have taken so far to...

Some smoke brushes that i have made using flame painter
and cs2

hope they are of some use to you

Resist the temptation to use white try out grey and add a little blur to the smoke

I have been messing around today making these brushes and thought i would post them incase someone else finds them useful
they where made in cs2 so not sure if they will work in older versions ( sorry)

Palms

This action is made from a tutorial by Corey Barker
seen here

It works on quite a few different images it just needs the odd bit of tinkering ( mainly colour etc )

All that i have done is made it into a action this is all Corey's workflow

I hope it is of some use to someone and that you enjoy the use of the action!

Due to no one playing ball and letting me practice on them (as wrote in last entry) i have had to resort to more flowers

So next challenge will have to be things that are in the house i.e. objects, that may take some thinking and planning though but it may keep me amused with winter coming

mind you i also want to get some sunsets/silhouettes if i could find a interesting place, I was hoping that i could of got some while on holiday but that was a let down...