Comments please.
I took these with my Tamron 28-300mm. Not a lens i get out too often but i thought i would give it run. Just need to keep it under 200mm to get acceptable results.

Opera house @ 63mm, 100 iso, ap 6.7, sp 1/350sec



Fort Denison. A stone structure which used to be a prison and then a fort built in the early 1800s
63mm, 100iso, ap 6.7, sp 1/60sec



Tall ship which does day cruises around the harbour. Haven't done it yet but i intend too.
115mm, 100iso, ap 8.0, sp 1/125sec

Thanks George but i think i still have a ways to go yet, a lot of my shots are still not as sharp as i would like but i'm working on it.

The leaf curler spider is very abundant at the moment. But there is always plenty of spiders about, you will have a field day when your camera arrives.
Just watch out for the funnel webs they can be aggressive if provoked and they especially like foriegners

Heres a couple of leaf curlers

Well size would help this poor chap as she slaps him around a bit after a night of passion

Well you did better than me Dan i ran a search for the bug but came up empty Thanks

The weaver spider is the female of the species with the male less than 25% of its size

All taken with the 90mm Tamron
Comments welcome

The Female Aerial Weaver



Not sure what this is but very nice colours



Fly

Patience is the key And knowing what to say to them

I would look at getting a large backpack as opposed to a camera bag and pack everything in that around your camera.

Tim would'nt your tripod hit you in the back of the head carrying it like that

Thanks again to everyone for thier best wishes.
My response to this whole debate is you have to look after yourself and if that means fortifing your home then so be it . Its the society we live in and we have to accept these things when it happens. A stronger police presence would help if the govt would only stop the cutbacks. Put the cops back on the beat like the old days i say.
My local police station is only manned 4 days a week. Now thats just crazy if you ask me.
Instead of just slapping thier wrists and letting them out to re-offend i believe in community service. These people should be out cleaning up the community and helping the elderly and invalids.
I don't believe in capital punishment or taking the law into your own hands.
Preventention, Police presence, education and sterner penalties are what what i feel we need.

I took no offence in galoot's comment in fact if it wasn't for the transportation of criminals from the UK back in the early 1800's i would'nt be here So i have you too thank for that

Thanks Mongoose and everyone else for thier kind words.

Leave your weather machine until after the weekend i am off down the coast for some trail riding

As for the insurance i'm not sure how long it will take (it;s my first claim)
The assessor is coming out today so thats a good start i suppose.