Sometimes, cropping becomes a total necessity. A few weeks ago, our younger daughter Rani brought us our latest adopted Bearded Collie from a breeder near her home in Atlanta. As Rani and my wife were going on to a further destination, I use my Optio totake a picture of mother, daughter and new dog before they continued on with their trip.
Two days later, said Beardie decided to slip out of her new collar and disappear about 2 Ks from our home. I rushed our older Beardie home and started the search. It was short and in vain. I quickly made flyers using one of the pictures I took at the airport. I CROPPED the picture so that only the Bearded Collie appeared and used that picture on the flyer. Fortunately, as I was posting one of the flyers, a woman noticed it and told me that her neighbor had found our new Beardie (thus granting me a reprieve from my pending doom). Thanks to digital photography, all was once again well. I wouldn't have been able to do this if I hadn't cropped the picture to show only Sophie. So, there are times when you wind up using a picture for a different purpose than its original intent, and judicious cropping can be quite an enabler. Larry in Dallas
