Nairn Beach, Scotland







DS with 28-200mm Tamron

I got board on a site visit the other day and started to chat to one of the Phantom-Heads at the Glasgow Dental School.

( Phantom-Heads are what student dentist's practice on. )







Translation here . . . . .http://www.glesga.ndo.co.uk/glesgaglossary.htm

Pentax Optio 550 + a bit of discrete photoshop


p.s. I don't expect to be on the podium with this effort, well unless only three of us post ?

The 'Mark of Man' has a very long half-life.

Dunnet Beach, Caithness, Scotland, near the Dounreay Nuclear Reactor.






DS + 18-55mm lens

Nairn town centre, a walkabout with the 105mm Sigma







K10D + Sigma 105mm Macro - f4 @ 1/250 ISO-100

On second thoughts, if you could have got a woman in a red dress on that center balcony . . . . . . . . . .

No, the sky's ok, getting rid of the 'green' bit at the bottom was good.

Nice 'city-scape'

All good,

The first one stands out a bit for me, and as an ( old ) surfer, the 4th one scares me

Thanks Prieni, nice to get the feedback.

The 10-17mm Pentax takes some getting used to, I'm still getting to grips with it, but I love it

As for the 105 Sigma, I think it's the sharpest tack in the box, it was "Essex" Daniel's, Macro shot's that convinced me to buy it, he should be on commission, from Sigma, in-fact he should be sponsored by Sigma

I owe him a cigar

Sadly, the pictures are reduced from the original and converted to a new format for the 'Mac' web pages, and don't show the actual sharpness of the 105

Some photographs taken around Strathconon and Nairn, Scotland, over the last few weeks, with the 10-17mm fisheye and the 105mm Sigma.





You can see the rest here if you want,

http://web.mac.com/john_md/

Just click on,

Strathconon with the Fisheye

and

Around Nairn with the 105 Sigma

at the top of the start page.

I came back into the photography fold, film to digital, in part, due to the rebate on the Pentax DS, which at the time was £100, in the UK.