Love those owls, great timing.

It's a nice rose and a nice gentle way to portray it.

It depends how we define "just as good" though, and often buying the more expensive option can be cheaper in the long run. I've certainly found that to be so over the years, although to be fair sometimes it was constrained more by what I could afford at the time.

At the moment, both the 150-450mm and the 560mm are too expensive, but I'm always hopeful that at some point the opportunity will arise to buy one or the other. If I'm to stay serious about developing mu wildlife photography, it's the way forwards I see for myself anyway. I'm reluctant to go for the Sigma 50-500mm while there's some potential hope for the Pentax lens, although it would be a viable alternative.

I'm sure that there would be circumstances where they both said yes, but in the meantime I'm rather looking forward more to the Pentax 150-450mm. That's long enough for my birding shots and if they weren't then the 560mm is there.

Actually, the price of that 560mm is looking pretty good at under £3000!

I don't think anybody is dismissing anything or anyone, just showing a bit of sympathy for the awkward situation where there's been no response. Obviously it's not what Nik nor I would presume anybody else wanted.

I've no doubt she'll be doing what she can to resolve the issue.

You're welcome!

I'll sort that now, it needs changing manually.

These things are done with all good intentions, but George is basically right.

Does anybody have a favourite location they would like to share? We have a long weekend looming and I'm sure some of us will be wondering where to head for.

I'll suggest Arley Hall in Cheshire and Biddulph Grange Gardens near Congleton, also in Cheshire. Near to Biddulph is also Kypersley Reservoir, which is surrounded by an interesting bit of woodland with plenty of walks.

It just so happens that the automatic e-mail goes out when it does, but to be fair the weekly competition is weekly and we all know when the week runs. I usually enter quite early on, but if I was in Australia I'd be looking to enter just a little earlier to make sure I caught the deadline.

I hope you manage to enter next week, we'd all love to see your images, and you might even win!