Well, I'm still kicking around, I'd taken a bit of a hiatus because I was really starting to repeat myself to an untenable degree. But, I spent some money and got a new lens, which will hopefully give me enough extra reach to get different shots.
I ended up with a beautiful Canon ef 70-200mm f2.8L IS, yes it's quite a bit of lens and yes, having both the IS as well as the f2.8 is probably overkill, but there's a good chance that I'll be wanting to use a telaconverter on it later on, and both of those features are basically a necessity.
So far the lens is far better than I am, I guess it'll take a while to get used to it. A bit of a pain to use with my ball head, especially when shooting upward or downward, but the Bokeh is gorgeous and it should serve me well once I get it figured out.
I just put up a couple of shots, right now most of them are garbage, but I have gotten a few worthwhile shots. Probably later today I'll put up a few paintings.