most UK proxies refuse iPlayer traffic.... I had access to one but it died and hasn't been fixed.

Will have to sort one out again soon for the little monster's CBBC fix.

Bret

I think the time has come... I'll be divesting of a couple of lesser-used lenses in the next weeks and this is the first.

SMC-M 85/f2. It's lovely. Built like a tank, smooth movements, no problems anywhere, I've had this for around 2 years and have hardly used it. No brassing, no marks; I'll provide test photos tomorrow.

I'm looking for around £200, postage included.

UK Banktransfer or SEPA payment possible, Paypal too.

Item is located in Lahti or Helsinki, Finland.

PM if you're interested or email me at my username @hotmail.com.

Bret

Might try that one on a rental and see if I prefer it over a 10-17...

Bret

Hmm.

Nearly 7000kms of summer trip was most of my travel for the year. Was much fun, too.

Happy? reasonably so. Got lots of interesting new bits, realised where I use my lenses and am now arguing with myself over how important I see video as and whether to invest in a K5 now or later.

2011's photography projects... A2 meets.. but the first one will probably be video, not stills. We'll see.

Bret

the "odd" one was not what I was looking for at all, but it turned up. I was processing and tried this - I like the feel it gives, I'd almost like to see it used as a still in the introduction to a horror movie....

I understand about the oak leaves being "too central"; I'll take a look-see and check if I have another version.

The first three are all HDR as they didn't work as single shots; taken at around 11am, with the sun 'rising', the glow was too bright. The first one is at sunset at 2:45 or so.

OTOH, these have helped convince me I can't get what I want out of the 10-24 - so I don't know what I'm going to do next.

Bret

so, as a quick question:
a) how fast is your DSL upload?
b) how much data do you create a month?
c) what would it be worth to be able to send a (filled) disk somewhere and have it available via internet?

The prelim issue is seeding (i.e.. the upload of data even with a 2MB upload speed is limited to around 5GB / day, assuming no problems) and then it's the amount of network traffic created.
I'd think we're talking a couple of gigs of new data per week for most, no?

Bret

i got my ten stopper.... and that was it on the photographic front. Some new socks, a new casserole dish (nom nom!) and a new work bag.

enough for me

Bret

We got back today to find that the guys doing the glass on the balconies probably tried to get in... they said "as of 0800 and we'll use the general key". Well, the door was locked on the big lock and I've only been out since Thursday 23rd at 1800. So they say over Christmas?! It's not the first time, either.

Bret

agreed....

I think I heard some complaints about snow. Well, I was up north over Christmas and was out and about. Got some photos, too, surprisingly enough.

Comments welcome (yes, I know there's a lot!). I don't normally do B&W, but it seemed to suit these and several of these are HDR.






















one more, from the same park as the previous:



Bret