This one is better than the one in the gallery but the trees don't look right somehow.

It is an incredibly difficult subject to capture well. I've been there twice now and know! I was lucky both times I was there that it was very clear. It looks like you had some haze to contend with.

Did you stay at the Canyon? See the condors? Last year we stayed overnight and got the sunset. Slept through the alarm and missed the sunrise though when lack of sleep and jet lag caught up with me.

Not a great photo, but a funny one. Our two year old grandson went for a walk with us, and we came across this rather amorous chap and his harem.

What's he doing Granddad? Playing son, just playing.

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It is whingeing to constantly complain of Rip Off Britain, which one hears all to often, just because the price in Britain is more than somewhere else in the world. That is what I object to. I fully realise prices vary, I have put up with expensive prices for Pentax and other goods, with no cash back offers or special deals for years. I don't immediately start asking if I'm being ripped off, or call it Rip Off Holland.

It's life. Life isn't fair so stop calling it a rip off all the time.

This is not aimed at you Bodyheat but at Britons in general.

I am a member of several international forums and Britons are definitely living up to the Whingeing Pom title as far as most other nationalities are concerned.

I am a Briton too in case you didn't realise.

Well it will make a change from parcels, magazines etc sent from the UK to near Amsterdam coming via Germany or Switzerland which is what they do now.Even when sent priority/airmail they still seem to take a week to get here more often than not. The PO has a contract with TNT's rivals Deutsche Post so these things are delivered by DP's privatised subsidiary. When they feel like it. Their delivery people can deliver whenever they like within a week of receiving the post.

Not that TNT are perfect - they manage to lose things and send them all round the houses too.


leytono I hope you enjoy your lens when you finally get it.

GlynM I feel your pain. Glad nothing more serious was broken. Is it covered by insurance perhaps?

Bodyheat I'm glad I amuse you. You may only have had internet for 10 years, some of us have had it much longer.

It was exactly my point that internet makes more people aware of something which has gone on forever. Whingeing doesn't help. Not buying things does.

The K-7 body is, as I said earlier, available at www.fotokonijnenberg.nl voor €1049. Someone I know has ordered one, having been assured the price was correct at this time and will not be increased for orders placed now.
No import duties, no VAT extra, just the price of posting it from NL.

I must admit I was expecting photos of Blur, not Doves, by following the link.

If you are intending to fly with it make sure it meets not only size regulations but isn't too heavy in itself. Some bags - the Katas in particular can be ridiculously heavy before you've even put anything into them. Some airlines will weigh your bag, others won't, but if you have to negotiate an aircraft with it and lift it into the overhead lockers you don't want something weighing a ton.
I'm very happy with my Tamrac backpack. Though not fast access it is very comfortable to carry thanks to all the adjustable straps, including a waist strap and chest strap - both increase the comfort when hiking. The tripod holder is on the back of it so it doesn't get unbalanced with a tripod attached. I can fit the Bigma into it easily, either on camera, or more often off camera.
I suggest you find a store with a wide range of bags and actually go and look at them, and see which one suits you best. Take your biggest lens and camera with you to make sure the lens will fit.

I think probably that most of us just don't bother with one.

You can get stick on film from Hama and the like and there are also hard plastic ones which go over it - have a look on e-bay I'm sure you'll find them there.

Greynolds, the cheapest I've seen one here is just over 3000 pounds, mostly nearer 3,500.
So a bargain indeed, good luck in selling it on, if you can bear to part with it .

I use a GPS logger. I don't bother to tell people exactly where a photo was taken, it is for my personal use only. But then again I try not to have slide shows for people either.
Some of my holiday photos are online, for family to see. This lot are not tagged though my husbands are. In jalbum you can click on "see on map" to show where something was taken if you really want to know. I really use it just as to remind myself of where I took a photo, and it's nice to see the route we took on our hols as well, and see how illogical we were .
Wifi is not so important to me but I dare say I'd use it if I had it.