Welcome back and as you say, now let's look to the future not the past.

Don't you really think it would be more appropriate to just let it rest for now and await developments? Is there a point to starting yet another discussion the same as before?

If Amin follows the link he will find the message as I have reactivated his account.

The matter is now in progress.

For a start, this is totally untrue. The moderators are on no side, we just moderate. Sometimes it's liked, sometimes not, but we do at least have all the information, not just some of it.

Now I'm back in I'm looking into all this and we'll see where we go shortly. In the emeantime, we are fully aware of all the points of view that have already expressed and will be looking at these totally impartially over the next hours or whatever it takes.

I'll let you know the outcome.

Thank you Snoochies, but you are incorrect. I'm back in now so we'll come back to this shortly.

There are now three DAL lenses, and optically they are the same as the DA versions. The difference is that they have plastic mounts and are supplied without lens hoods. Lower cost, lighter but no loss in image quality.

There have been plastic, sorry polycarbonate, mounts in the past and they work well enough even if they are a bit against the grain in terms of what we are used to.

Ah, that must be for the judge only. When the competition ends, whichever picture you select will be displayed as the winner and that photographer will receive a Private Message telling them they have won.

I didn't realise, or have never noticed, that the boxes appear before the competition ends.

See the Your Photos section and the instructions are provided there.

Members do seem to have problems with Flikr - Photobucket is free and works fine.

I've just had a look and can't see what you're referring to. Where do you mean exactly?