Facebook has become too crowded for me, so I decided to cut back a bit. I also noticed that I've grown less productive because of my fb addiction, fb in my room, in the living room, while on transit, on vacation etc etc. I won't stop using it, but I'll try my best to login less and correspond more moderately. With that in mind, I'll just post my experimentation shots here. Don't want to bug my contacts there and I want to keep this hobby private. This is the latest, I just tested my tripod and the shots are indeed much better than just the 'clip your elbow' ones. The light was better absorbed and there was no visible jitter, in my eye at least.
These are raw twilight shots in front of our house: