ah yes the old "use the ground to steady the camera technique" I remember it well Ralph , but now I am older and wiser I drink far less than I used to lol. Seriously though, it is not till we use a macro lens, or even a long telephoto, that we realise how unsteady we can be sometimes. My pet hate with my own digital camera is not having a regular cable release, although I do have an electronic one. I find that it is difficult to hold focus when even raising a finger to press the shutter release, but if a proper old fashioned cable release was used on my flash bracket like in the analogue days, then one could start squeezing the trigger as one focussed, it just seemed easier that way. Whilst I am having a moan, it is time they designed a digital camera which can synch flash at higher shutter speeds.
children paint because they don't know they can't - so what happens as we become adults? - Me
Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some, and to do it by every artifice possible - truer than the truth. - Jean Anouilh 1910-87