No 2 for me, too. A very good picture . I'm still trying to work it out. Is water involved???

Steve

Lovely, all of 'em.

There's definitely a lot of scope for close-ups of cereal crops in fields. Just need to be there at the right time and right light as you clearly did. Unfortunately, the barley round here went a couple of weeks ago...

Steve

Lovely pictures. Overexposed, but correctly exposed.

Steve

Still in the right county, though.

Welcome back!

Steve

Wrong conclusion. Since having the Sigma has let you get this picture, just think what acquiring another lens (or three) would enable you to do (particularly if it wasn't back-breakingly heavy)...

Steve

Nice duck, nice angle, nice picture.

Steve

One way of dealing with the faff of changing lenses and carting a load of gear around is to sharpen up on what you photograph. Take one lens with you (two if you must) and take photographs which suit that lens. It isn't as restrictive as you might think. Davidwozhere was saying it about his Tamron 90mm macro. In my case, for example, I've gone out with only a long telephoto in order to take butterflies. When the butterflies didn't turn up, the lens was turned to flowers and landscape. Not what you might select for a trip to take flowers or landscape, but it was perfectly possible to take respectable pictures - and no changing lens because I only had the one with me.

In fact, taking only one lens with you is a good way to stretch and develop your photographic imagination. Take a different lens next time and you'll see the same things in a different way. The voice of experience is speaking here, I've been doing it for years with the standard dog walk. Every time I think I've seen and photographed everything there is in every possible way, I see something new or the same things in a different way. It isn't the same with a bridge camera (the voice of experience again, my first digital camera was a bridge camera and, guess what, it used to do the dog walk with me).

Steve

It depends on what you photograph. And on what you think and hope .

The number of mp's is only part of the story. Improved shake reduction, removing the anti-alias filter, different sensor technology etc. all contribute. I moved from a K20D (14.6mp) to K3 (24.4mp). The increase in mp certainly helped when it came to things like detail in distant birds and cropping. However, just as important, if not more so, were greater dynamic range, ability to pull detail out of shadows, improved tracking and various other things that hit me at the time but are now deep in the memory.

Steve

Miles of sand, wind whipping it in your face. Ah, nostalgia...
That was called a normal British summer when I was a lad.

Steve

Did you know the Harbour Club at Weymouth equally well?? Lots of military police loitering outside when the fleet was in. Can't guess why...

Steve