Hi Maria

Sincere best wishes for a speedy and hopefully full recovery, I think you know that I am a huge admirer of your work and will miss your images whilst you're not able to use your camera. Your love for photography and art really shines through in your work and I hope it won't be too long before you can get back behind the lens.

I don't know if you can think someone better, but I'm doing my best right now!

Best wishes
David

Some lovely shots here Gary, I love the location as it's so compact and easy to get close to the Dragonflies. I think a visit in August or September would be best to catch more species, but it's great on any nice day.

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David

The ones with flash in particular Alan are wonderful, the flash has given the images fabulous detail and colours. Superb set of images.

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David

What a great image! Made me smile.

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David

Lovely balanced lighting on these Nigel, I think the compositions are less important, these are not commercial images, they are personal portraits which will probably become treasured memories for you and your family in years to come. I think they are great, I wish I had images like these of my children growing up.

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David

Great again Alan, thanks for posting such inspiring shots.

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David

Superb Alan, you are setting the standard once again.

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David

Firstly Bill, please accept my apologies for being so slow to comment on this set, I have as usual not had much time on the site lately, my life must be too full!!

Secondly, can I just say what an incredibly beautiful and inspiring set of images you have produced. I think I can say without any doubt this is the best set I have ever seen on the PU Forum. They demonstrate a mastery of the art which is rare indeed, not just of the processes of taking a technically correct image, but of the artistic elements to compose the shots, choose just the right shutter speed /aperture combination and to process them in a the most subtle and considered way to bring out the elements that make the shot stand out.

I too am not going to choose a favourite, but similar to Gareth, number 6 strikes me as particularly inspiring.

Thanks for posting this, I will return to view these many times I suspect.

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David

Centre Point only for me, which works very well on the K-3. It's quick and effective, I don't think I would gain any speed or accuracy by using the other focus points.

As an aside, since I've had the DA*300 and 1.4TC, I have noticed that the K-3 focusses much more reliably than the K-5iis using the centre point. I'm not talking about focus accuracy here as the K-5iis is very accurate, I'm talking about a tendency to hunt on small subjects like wild birds for example. The K-3 locks on where the K-5iis hunts in and out. Has anyone else noticed this?

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David

Sincere thanks to everyone for the nice comments, it is very much appreciated.

The shots with the old Tamron BTW are No.5 and No. 9. As mentioned yesterday, it's hard to see on this image size in the Forum, but on the originals these ones have much less inherent sharpness and contrast than the DA*300 / 1.4TC images.

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David