Thanks everyone for the warm welcome! I spent way too many hours last night (til about 1am) reading recent posts and checking out some of your websites and blogs. Your dog photos are just stunning. I do love dogs too and will probably shoot them at times but I think its better for now to concentrate on what I know best, which is cats. Besides I know there are already at least a handful of dog - focused photographers here in the San Diego area. I have a pbase account and have a gallery for my older cat photos
http://www.pbase.com/dianastarr/cats
and one for my first "real" shoot with an entire strobe setup (which was only a couple weeks ago). Helmi has already given some feedback, any additional comments would be great. I have a reputation for being pretty direct and welcome it in return.
http://www.pbase.com/dianastarr/kristine

There's also several other galleries of misc stuff, landscapes, architecture, flowers, etc, if you're bored.

Thanks again! Diana