Let's hope I get some clear skies and a chance to get out to Stokenchurch. Shouldn't be too much of a problem - my husband spent a year at a school in Horsley's Green and likes to go back there and relive his youth.

Oh and definitely a bit of flirting going on in #4.

Then the Optech is not for you. Look at the Blackrapid and the Sun-sniper. decide which you prefer. Sun-sniper do a strap with wire through it meaning your strap can't be cut by some opportune thief, but, BlackRapid seem to get better reviews.

Wow! What a great set. I love #2 - the bird is looking straight at you!
Which were taken with which lens?

Any hints as to where you were? I'll be in Chalfont St G for a couple of days in April, and whilst I wouldn't be able to get such great shots (no skill, and no gimbal head) I'd love just to see them.

Sorry a bit dense today .

It was my husband's birthday on Friday. As he was in France for it he had cake at work today. He brought the remains home - that will go on and on I fear.
Sadly they ate all the good stuff and left us with the creamy sickly stuff. The company he works for (as opposed to the one where he works) provide the creamy sickly cake, he provided a couple of lovely fruit pies (vlaai). He was hoping it would go by unmarked this year - but the cake was delivered this morning so he went out and got the vlaai as an alternative.

No doubt he'll have to buy cake again in a month when his contract ends .

Thank you John .

That one has the same problem as the OpTech version - it relies on the strength of the strap mount on the body. I have the OpTech one, but don't like relying on a single strap mount - they have been known to fail, as I said.
The PodMount they offer has the same problem as RapidBlack or Sun-sniper - you can't use it with a QR plate.

True John. I didn't respond for just that reason - but it happens, and a message explaining why such an old thread has been revived would perhaps help it die a death again.

Today is Pi day. An American invention since it wouldn't work using European date notation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day
Pi to 1 million digits; http://www.piday.org/million.php

I think it should be made clear that this 3 year old thread was resurrected by a spammer, and the reply someone made to that spam, both postings having been removed.

It's a pity there isn't a message generated when a post is removed - along the lines of this post was removed by the moderator so it is clear something has been deleted.

But this isn't a phpBB based forum