Thank you! It was fun to take them, and I was surprised how well they came out. After all I was handholding the camera. Tripod would have produced better results for sure, but for handheld they were superb.

For the gif animations I used gimp. It was as simple as loading up the photos as layers, resizing them to a lower resolution, exporting them as .gif animation with looping on.

Keep up the great photography work!

Thanks, will do! 😊