I like the site. As Algi said it loads quickly, is easy to navigate, and shows off the photos very well.

I don't have a problem with mics in front of faces - with some singers it is glued to their lip it seems, making it nigh impossible to a shot of them without it.

Although it is a little soft I love the Nicky Wire shot!

I hope you manage to get some paid work out of it.

At least it explains why Menzies and Dalziel are pronounced as they are. Maybe they should reintroduce the yogh now less people use a tailed z.

Great photos. I like the first crane, the owl and the Splendid Starling the most.
Though #6 is good too - looks like two ladies at Ascot having a moan because they are both wearing the same hat .

The JJC one is OK if you don't mind your camera being off centre on your tripod. The tripod screw on it's baseplate is quite a bit off to one side. I'd have to use a long QR plate to centre the camera again and I'm not sure that is possible. Still it looks good for the price. I'll be interested to hear what you think of it Karma.

A couple of the Germans on the boat with me were using the sun-sniper. It seemed to be good, and very useful when wrapped up in several layers of clothing as it didn't tangle in things like scarves, but as I say in several head to head tests the BR comes out on top. That might be due to American Chauvinism of course.

No Algi, it has always been called at, or commercial at. It is hardly worth abbreviating a two letter word. It appeared on typewriters in the 19th century as soon as they were introduced.

It was used in the first e-mail in 1972, as it would not occur in a person's name or the name of an institution, and because it meant at.

Lovely, lovely image, certainly worth getting up so early when you can produce something so beautiful.

I like both versions very much. Hard to choose between them, but I think, maybe because of the black sky, I shall opt for Antique Light this time. Tough call though.

It's Italian that calls @ the little snail. French has some other name for it which I forget, but is similar to the Spanish name, which I've also forgotten. In Dutch it is apestaartje - little monkey tail.
In English it has always been called the at, or commercial at.

I've decided to dig out my Optech harness again and give that a go. I used to use it all the time with the Ds, but didn't like it with the K20D.
It may be better for me, at least until I can get a BlackRapid with QR plate.

Still no response to my e-mail from Sun-sniper .

In ISO and unicode it is wrongly called a solidus.
Typesetters have always called it a slash I believe. Only in English grammar is it referred to as an oblique.

Besides www.pentaxuser.co.uk slash forum sounds better than www.pentaxuser.co.uk oblique forum.

Backslashes did exist before 1960 and were introduced to ascii in 1961, according to the fount of all knowledge Wikipedia

Here's more info on Aston Rowant.