Harmless you say, can you ship me one over to keep as a pet

Nice shot, unfortunately theres an awful lot of burned out areas, gulls ( and other white birds) are very difficult to capture.

Birds in flight are difficult to capture at the best of times but white plumage makes it even more so, but dont worry about it, I still haven't got a decent gull in flight pic after 25 years or more

HERETIC

Move over the border John and join the YPU

I generally print out at A4 (thats as far as my printer will go) however I do note that a very large number of prints obviously printed on A3 printers do rather well in my camera clubs various competitions, but at the end of the day it all comes down to the print, its a waste of time printing at A3 if you've cropped and reduced the quality of the image, or if printing at such a size reveals large areas of noise etc

Mounting; if you intend to mount a lot of your own prints then invest in a simple mount cutter and buy the mounting board uncut, alternatively buy a ready cut mount, but this will restrict your image size.

EDIT......PS as John said, 16x20 is a good size for a mount , although IMHO anything much less than an A4 print would be lost on such sized board

Do you honestly need crystal clear quality for....portraits? I dont think the mother of the bride would be too pleased that you captured her hairy mole in all its glory or that the grooms Psoriasis was clearly evident in his side burns
My own experiance with weddings tells me that even if you shot with a Box Brownie the couple would be happy because they had saved £400? £500? £600? plus.......

My own sister summed up wedding photography in one sentance....."whats the point in spending hundreds of pounds on photos that will only see the light of day once every five or six years"

And to sum up my response: Pete, dont worry, the couple will be happy with whatever you produce although Hello magazine may demand a re-shoot

I wish you would stop posting such good pics, i'm begining to get an infeiority complex

Caption Competition? great idea, mine is;

"Yes that sign on the park bench definately said WET PAINT"

I have continued to tote around my istD as a back up, I have even gone out with the intention of shooting with a long lens on the K10D and a shorter one on the istD, problem is I love the K10D that much I cant resist swapping to the shorter lens anyway

As for back up bodies, I can count on one hand the number of times a camera has let me down over the last twenty five years but I always had two bodies with me anyway, albeit in the days of film they may have contained different stock.

As for a second identical body....are you that rich

Doesn't it just really P!$$ you off when you get a beautiful sky like that and your miles from anything decent to put in the foreground

Despite that I think you did a good job on this one Chris though I would have prefered the plane a little higher, but I suppose you being you then moving it it is NOT an option

Hawkwind? are they still all living?

Sorry Tim, you walked right into that one, I get the same reaction whenever I wear my Moodies concert T-shirts