Isn't it a female sparrow?
You get European sparrows in the US.

Nice photo btw, don't know how I missed it before.

There is white stuff falling now, bah. At least me and the dog stayed dry.
Hope it doesn't last too long or my other half could have a horrible journey home.

I just read a news story about a pair of cheeky robbers.
A couple in Utrecht were watching telly. Suddenly the window breaks and two men lean in and grab the telly, and ride off with it on a scooter.
The owner of said telly tried to go after them - but the front door was jammed. It turns out the robbers had tied the front door to a parked car so it wouldn't open.

Grey and -2 here, right now. White stuff due any time apparently .

So TT you tease us - what new toy are you getting tomorrow? And why do the temps have to go up and the sky turn blue?

Off with the dog now before the snow arrives.
Still feels odd that, dog, singular .

Was that at Zoom Experience? I didn't bother going as they weren't listed.

I keep hoping Pentax Europe will decide on a Pentax Benelux division and give De B the boot, but it doesn't sound likely from what you say Stefan.

Their service can't get any worse, so anything should be an improvement.

I also hear De B are also upping their prices, especially on lenses .

Did you stay on and get some shots of the Trajectum Lumen in Utrecht?

Nice images. But you can keep the snow .

I never used it when I had the IST Ds - because it was not good.

It has improved considerably since then as I understand it, but I am now so used to PSE that I haven't tried it again.

Maybe you should give it a go when you get your camera. If you don't like it then use PSE until you can afford Lightroom.

The K10D/K20D has .95x magnification, the K-7/K-5 0.92x.

Nonetheless my experience is that the K-5 viewfinder is superior to the K20D.

I haven't used the Pentax RAW converter but it too is based on Silkypix.

You won't be able to convert PEFs in PSE yet as Adobe haven't issued an update for ACR yet. Those of us with a K-5 already are shooting DNGs.
ACR in Elements is not the same as in Lightroom, but it does the trick most of the time.

Lightroom and PSE complement one another very well I'm told.

If you are unsure about switching to Elements then maybe the free download is the way to go. Then you can, as you suggest, sell on the sealed package if it isn't for you.

There are various sites online which offer help and tuition, but really nothing beats a good book about it - the Missing Manual is a good (if dry) one. If you can stand Scott Kelby his books are good, though his PSE9 book isn't out yet.
I subscribe to http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/. Some of their tutorials are free for non members to read.

I don't understand the obsession with pink. I hate pink. All the little girls around now seem compelled to wear Barbie pink and have every toy in similar tones.

Maybe once having had red hair (now dark chestnut and grey) has something to do with my dislike of the colour.

If my other half gave me something pink I'd be very disappointed.

Ah well à chacun son goût.

Good luck with finding her a pink camera - there are lots out there, and nowadays there are very few duff compacts.