One of the major Dutch Photography shops had a demoday last week, an as well as demonstrations from Canon, Swarovski, Zeiss, Leica, Gitzo, Wimberley and Pocket Wizard they had a falconry display, to give you something to aim your new toys at. I didn't go, Friday is my Omadag, when i have my grandson all day. However I had a look at the phtots on the site today and couldn't help laughing at this photo;

How about a child on a swing? With the parents permission of course.

I like the first one a lot, though I might crop a tad off the foreground. The second one I would crop to just below the patch of bluebells so that the sky is more the focus of the photo instead of all the boring grass in the foreground as it is now. The third one is an interesting effect. It certainly shows up the bluebells well.

I can see the attraction of it. I'm not sure I would do it, but since it is all female then why not? It is an experience for her. Take her mind off the wedding hassle for a while.

I just hope her husband to be likes the results. I just ask my OH what he thought and he said he didn't like the idea much
And he says what happens to the photos after she has ordered the 10 for the album? Wouldn't want them escaping on to the web at a later date for instance. Something she should check on maybe before comitting.

And I don't think the pregnant ladies are necessarily brides - it is very fashionable to have photos of the bump to stick in the album alongside the 3D scans!

I too love my Tamron 90mm.
If they made it in a Pentax fit I'd probably go for the Sigma 150mm though.

I agree, image 1 is the better compostion, and looks more real. Also agree that the sun is burnt out. Shame you couldn't have tucked it behind the trees, or waited a few minutes until it was down further and less bright.
The second one doen't look real, and doesn't really feel like a sunset photo to me - more of a late afternoon feel to it, or even early morning, but not sunset.

I would start by looking at the card, reformat it, try another card if you can find it, then move to the reader then lastly the camera. I hope it's not the camera! I've got my fingers crossed for you.

I think that if you have it set on M, Av or Tv you can set almost any time you want (up to 30 secs) without the flash being activated. It may say you need flash but it won't force the pop-up flash. Leastways that works on my Ds.

I just chatted with a couple of blokes I know with K10Ds and Bigmas - neither reported any problems with the combination. Both swapped over from Ist D to K10D and both already had the Bigma. I suggest you swap it for new one and see how that goes.

Here in Holland I use my local supermarket I upload to them and a couple of days later collect the prints from my local shop when I do my shopping there. Cheap fast and very good as far as I can see. Certainly as good as (if not better than) my local photorgphic shop which charges more and has a tendency to make there own "improvements" to my photos

On another forum I've just read of a guy in Australia who last year took a photo in to have printed and hang on his wall. Imagine his shock when he returned to the shop this year to see his photograph in the window, offered for sale, under the shop photographers name!!!! He is currently negotiating with them about it, and threatening a copyright lawsuit if they don't compensate him.