Hi Michael. First up, I think you have to explicitly put your pictures into the gallery. You need to select the right category (birds of particular continent, or separate artwork gallery) and put some details in which could help interested parties find them by keyword. No doubt the photographs of ducks you posted would fit fine into the mix there. A bit bigger would be better.
By "good reproductions of pictures" (sorry I wasn't clear) I meant I'd like to see better (or maybe just bigger) photos in the galleries of your
drawings as posted by you in an earlier thread. Perhaps need to formalise a workflow including always scanning or photographing your artwork before framing behind glass to make sure you get best quality.
If you see your interest in photography as photographing things that are, lets say, animal size and are not necessarily up close |:d| then you will want good magnification in your lens. Maybe the Mavica camera you have is one of the big zoom ones that helped you get those duck photos. You could replace this with a more modern version such as cameras in the '10-12X Optical "Super" Zoom' section here :
http://www.steves-digicams.com/best_cameras.html
They'd be quicker to use, generally less bulky and be capable of higher quality results. For results of a higher quality still, particularly with moving objects, you'd need to consider a DSLR. That's certainly a lot more bulk and weight as well as cash.
If the critters you want to photograph are substantially smaller and/or shyer than ducks and you already have at least a reasonable scope and tripod, you might be tempted to get a more compact camera with less zoom and have a go at digiscoping. Plenty of advice available in the "Digiscoping" forum here on the latter route.
Difficult to advise when so much depends on what you hope to achieve in your photos, how committed you expect to be (or from the other end how "intrusive" you are prepared to let the photography become), what kit you already have and of course how much you are prepared to spend. Maybe the best thing would be to absorb all the info you can from BirdForum.
Hope you've shed a few pounds from your eyelids overnight 3