The 16-50mm DA zoom is a superb lens and the stunning quality of your images proves this - and it also demonstrates your own skill.
David

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Congratulations Simon.
David

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Its now 8am Thursday and still only three entries. What's up? I've seen many excellent sporting shots in The Gallery. Remember, for the weekly competiton you can trawl your archives, entries don't have top be taken this week.
David

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I dont know what's best for you but I certainly wouldn't carry around 15, 21 and 40mm lenses when my superb 16-50mm DA* 2.8 zoom covers that entire range.
But then I have an aversion to lugging heavy gear around all day on a photo shoot. That's why I dont have a grip attached to my camera bodies or bother with tripods either.
I like the freedomn to move around without hindrance of balancing lots of gear or constantly changing lenses.
David

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Lets have some sport, any sort. It doesn't have to be Premiership Football or Formula One, although if someone has superb shots from these sports they will be welcome. I'm looking for dramatic action, the tension of a sports person at the limit of their endurance, drama in the crowd or the emotion of winning.
I'm looking for good photos taken on Pentax cameras or Samsung clones. Deadline Midnight Sunday March 17.
David

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Great light and you selected some interesting angles Gary.
David

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Match spectators



Higher education high key



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Our monthly camera club assignment was to the former Middlesborough docklands area of Middlehaven on Saturday. It poured down with rain all day - and that was a challenge.
These were all shot on my K5 with DA*50-135mm lens. Middlesborough College made a great base to dry out in - and have coffee and lunch. The college also provided photo opportunities. David

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Its depressing to read some of these comments on camera clubs. Thank God mine isn't like that. At Durham PS there's a buzz as you walk through the door. Half an hour before the meeting starts the room is already nearly full of people. An average Thursday night meeting attracts around 70 members.
Yes we have lots of competitions but many these are for beginners to encourage our newer members. We also get lots of great visiting speakers. Last night we had Ann and Steve Toon, professional wildlife photographers and journalists who showed amazing pictures taken in Africa.
Because we are the biggest camera club in the Northern Counties Photographic Federation with a membership of more than 100 we can afford to pay for better class speakers and often team up with the Royal Photographic Society to share the fees for big names touring the North.
Our activities are not restricted to Thursday night meetings. We have monthly digital imaging workshops and a monthly assignment outing to a location with photo opportunities. Tomorrow we are off to Middlehaven, the modernised area of the old Middlesborough docklands.
We have coffee together, meet up for lunch and everyone chats; this helps new members and old hands get to know each other. We have an annual print exhibition in Durham Cathedral, another in Durham University's Botanic Gardens and regular mini exhibitions in local libraries and Durham Town Hall.
The photography from all our members is terrific. Our begginers constantly amaze us with their fantastic images. We regularly get images accepted in international exhibitions and for the second successive year Durham PS has qualified to represent the NCPF at the annual projected images competition run by the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain at Warwick University.
In the recent PAGB club championship Durham PS was placed 12th among all the competiting camera clubs in the country.
As for other camera clubs in the North East, I can say from personal experience that Hexham PS and Whitley Bay PS also have a great atmosphere when you walk in to one of their club night meetings.
So not all camera clubs are dead on their feet, run by old fogies stuck in their ways.
One final thing, there's no equipment snobbery in our camera club. We are more interested in the images people produce than in the camera equipment they use.
David
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The first one is the standout for me Mark altough I suspect the sepia version would look equally powerful in pure mono. It must have been freezing up there in the High Pennines but the views over the Eden Valley would be worth it.
David

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Well done Stan. My K5 got me 1st place in the first digital image competition of the year at Durham PS two weeks ago.
David