Hi Bob
yup, the macro lens is a stunner, but I have been using it with the 1.7x Adapter on some of these ones.
I need a bit of an extra range for these ones

Thank you PentaxBabe I am really glad the green is not overwhelming for the eyesight as you said.

Having seen one of Mike's early version of stunning water drop images I had in mind having a go one of these days when I couldn't puff any smokes nor bubbles , so today was the day.

I wonder if this first image is too bright and the green hurt the eyes. It was the bright reflector that created it.

Comments highly sought please, and some more to come.

Thank you

Amin

Hi Scott, this was taken with the DA*300 plus 1.7x adapter

Number 2 for me Scott. Both are great but just like some of the members commented the first one looks a common pose of the squirrel and the second one wins because of the out of the ordinary pose and also the eye level shot of the eyes. Oh and the background looks good on that and I prefer that rather than the grass.

So, you going to enter any squirrel picture competitions? do tell us why you wanted to know, or was it just out of curiosity that you wanted our opinion and to see if your view also matched with the majority?

Let me chip in my humble point in this video debate if I may

I also own a HD good sony camcorder, but it just crossed my mind here that imagine I am trying to grab some shots of the lovely birdies with my DA*300 and suddenly I notice something that would be really nice capturing on video even for just a few seconds. Having that ability with such a long lens would be absolutely great.
We seem to forget that the video capabilities on the camera bodies in my view is not a replacement for a dedicated one but a complement for those occasions as many members including Danny so well described situations that would be really nice to have it.

I for one hadn't thought intensely on this feature but now that I think about it all, the more I think the more I am leaning towards the fact that video feature would be amongst one of the top decisions when choosing to upgrade my K20D

Thanks Kris

I managed to get the chin in from the first one, and then based upon Gartmore's crop to work around it for the second one
so all in all the parents of the girl with beautiful eyes get best of the both worlds

thank you

Ken,
great one. With regard to cropping I am definitely spoilt for choices.
But its the contrast I think now that is worrying me. In my versions I mean.

Ken, what did you do besides cropping? What did you tweak further?
You see, in my Viewsonic monitor in which I use the photoshop and edit all my images this is how the image looks, those warmer colours, but then the moment I view it in my LG monitor all the warm colours disappear, and the image looks so flat.

At first it was a shock but then Tel just commented that the image looks ok in his monitor and some others also did not point that it was too flat, so I guess its just my monitor.

So I was quite keen in knowing how does this particular Ken's version looks like compared to the cropped mine in the first page, the first one.

Many thanks

Amin