One can immediately tell how much of a hard work was involved in production of these inspiring photographs. I particularly like your "Curtain", obviously the dog's tale too, and the reflection of tree in the river. Sutton Beach can make you feel dizzy But in a positive way, of course. Lovely set, thanks for sharing

Love this round-up of yours. And look at them happy feet on your February photo!

Fantastic summary of the past year, many thanks for sharing

Hi Horst,

You could somehow get accidently logged out somewhere on the way, not due to any of your fault, thus prompt to join PU before becoming a +mem

Such an impressive set of photographs. So good to see Flying Scotsman steaming so lively on tracks. "Let there be light" is a total killer to me, closely followed by "Three generations", "Streets of brass", "Talyllyn railway" and, obviously, "War veteran". "On the Welsch Highland Railway" resembles a place, which I visited, when I was on my way from Snowdonia down to Cardiff. I only didn't manage to catch the train on time, thus only took the photo of its rear
Could this be the place?

Payment would be by bank transfer. Posting within the UK preferably, but some EU countries could also be considered

I forgot to add that a personal pick up would be the preferred method of "delivery", but I am also willing to deliver the gear in person within, say, 30-40 miles radius of Poole in Dorset. In case of posting a parcel, I will need to ask to cover the costs. I will find out about the exact amount of posting costs soon.

Hi.

Since I have recently upgraded my camera body, all despite the DxO advising that my previous camera had still a "better" sensor, I currently have for sale my trusty, gripped (dedicated, genuine Pentax battery grip) and flaghip in Pentax range when bought, 5IIs with an astrotracer (O-GPS1) and a free lens (Pentax SMC DA 50mm f/1.8 - brand new and never used, worth between £89 and £99, in an unopened box) to get you started. As we all know this, Pentax flagship cameras are weatherproof and made with the use of magnesium alloy and stainless steel body/chassis, which is impressive to say the least. In addition to this, the 5IIs features OLPFless sensor, which has a potential of taking sharper photographs. The camera has most of its accessories inherited from my 3II (as they are the same and I kept the 5IIs' used ones for myself), so there is a brand new, unpacked strap, new viewfinder cover, new Digital Camera Utility 5 software, new battery charger D-BC90. The battery itself is going to remain used, same as, obviously, the camera body, battery grip and the astrotracer, but all devices are in a fantastic, I would say "like-new", and clean condition. All boxes, manuals, even receipts from the main British photography equipment specialists (oldest dated August 2013), to prove that I am the genuine and first owner, are available. Nothing is missing, everything is in a fully working order and complete, even the notorious X-sync socket cover, I only cannot find the astrotracer box as yet, although I know I have it somewhere. It's just difficult to find, as it's small, so I might not find it before actual sell, but then, if I come across it later, I will duly post it, if required.

I wish this set not to be sold separately, with perhaps the exception of the battery grip (£95) or astrotracer (£75), which could go on their own. Both the camera body, battery grip and astrotracer, as already mentioned above, are in a perfect condition, as they were very well looked after. Current actuations count is 7888 (shutter tested to over 150k cycles). Along with the Pentax general manual I am also willing to attach a dedicated and insightful e-book on Pentax K-5/5II/5IIs free of charge, plus a voucher with a special 20% discount off 1-year membership on the Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan (down from £8 to £6 a month), which includes Lightroom.

I am going to perform some photo-session tomorrow of the above gear, so I could attach some photographs to this topic. Price for the whole lot - £485. No offers, please.

So, it looks like Pentax Portal of Ephotozine eventually gave its last sigh and has been put off to eternal rest. I tried to get there a moment ago and I'm being redirected to the main site. I know things looked grim since a while there. Somehow I feel sad about it. The portal had a massive potential, but somehow things didn't work out.

Fungustic macros!