Fantastic picture! I love it. Do you think whoever left the deposit on the pavement was thinking along similar lines...? (Doubt it). I grew up in Reading and went to the Festival the year Nirvana headlined (and also when they played there lower down the bill the year before) - awesome!!

Regards

Mat

I like both of these. The autumn colours in the first, and the fantastic rainbow in the second! Nice work

I did a little experiment in Dorset in the summer, by not-very-scientifically counting up what different brands of SLR people were using when I noticed them (there were a lot about as it was the folk festival). I expected to see a massive bias towards Canon and Nikon but was pleasantly surprised to see Pentax holding their own and even a couple of Samsung - quite a few people using film SLRs as well, where Pentax seemed to be positively in the majority...

Mat

I should clarify that the image will appear when you click 'preview comment'..., and of course when you finally add the comment

Mat

I had problems when I first tried uploading to the forum. You need to go to the main flickr page for the photo in question. Under the picture will be two URLs/Links. Copy the second one of those shown, then, when you come to post your topic in the forum, click the image button underneath the text box. This will bring up some text something like as follows... [img][img]. Simply paste the image URL you copied between the two square bracketed bits of text and you image should appear! you can click 'preview comment' to see if it has worked.

Hope that helps

Mat W

Thanks everyone for the comments. We had a ton of rain yesterday so I think everything in the garden is pretty much flooded now... I was using the Pentax DFA100mm lens for all of these, and experimenting with using camera and its on-camera flash in one hand, and a remote flashgun in the other hand. Still more work to do I think though...

Regards

Mat

I've taken a lot of pictures with the Sigma 70-300mm zoom (DG APO), and am always impressed with its performance considering it only cost me a little over £100, and you can probably get one cheaper still second hand on ebay or similar. It has a switch which gives it a macro function between 200 and 300mm. There are a few pictures in my portfolio (mostly animals) which were taken with this lens... big cats and birds

Hope that helps

Mat

I got 55 emails... made me feel very popular until I saw they were all the same...

I have to agree with Tim, the second photo is brilliant...

Regards

Mat W

I thought I would have a whizz around my (very small) garden this morning before the rain sets in tomorrow, and captured these...

This spider is mid-web-manufacture




This snail looks like he is sliming his way along a stick of rock




I like the dew-drops on this clover-like plant




This snail was tiny - must be a young one




and this is the side of my shed - and that ivy seems to be truly indestructible!! (it's everywhere)




Hope you like these. As ever, all/any C&C gratefully received

Regards

Mat W