Hello all. I was at my Mum's a couple of weeks ago, which is nice because she actually has a garden with some flowers in it! so I grabbed a few random shots, and thought I would post some here. I think all were taken with the K7 and DA35 ltd. I have been playing around with PP a bit as well, and some of these have had more than others...

Hydrangea blue:



Interloper!



Hydrangea pink:



Sweet pea carpet 1:



Wing squish:



Sweet pea carpet 2:



Branes:



...and just for bit of fun... the lurker...



I hope you like them. As ever, interested in any C&C.

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These are corkers! Great action shots and nice and sharp too. I think the first is a belter, you get the impression of being really close in (it would make a good advert for 'Rickter'). 4 and 5 also stand out - 4 for the swirling line which goes round the shot, and 5 because there is a good sense of the environment with the waves rolling in. Top stuff!

+1 to what japers45 said for me too. Nice shots Prieni - they look like proper 'wall-hangers' to me.

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I agree with the above. Lovely results, and it must be great to be able to be (I guess) a relatively long way away from the insects so as not to spook them to take flight (a problem I often have!)

Top stuff

Lovely shot - I like the way you have captured the water falling away from his foot. Well captured!

Wow - very cool shots and, like just about everyone else, I am jealous I love the DOF on these, the bokeh looks great to me, and the detail on the bird is excellent. What is the 250-600 like to lug about?

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That's a great pic - looks a bit like a landing pad out of Alien. Well shot!

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Both lenses you mention are fine lenses in my view... However i think it's also worth considering the sigma 30mm f1.4. It's a great lens and many folk on here use it for portraits to great effect. Good for low light with its wide aperture. Although that is less of an issue if you were going to use a flash. I would have thought you should be able to pick one up for your budget.

Just a thought

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It depends whether you are shooting in RAW or JPEG. I use 8 GB cards in my K-7 and shoot RAW, and a card will hold (from memory) ~320 images. Therefore I would expect a 16 GB card to take somewhere around 650 RAW images, or a much bigger number of JPEGs...

Hope that helps

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You could try coming up with some discrete projects... I have in mind to do a little project on cemeteries in London, and maybe something on Wren churches. I also like to wander around and see what catches my eye (especially early in the morning when there are few folk about). The results of one such walk last week are in this thread I posted a few days ago...

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I agree there is so much to see it is difficult to know where to start. A friend of mine often takes a walk from X to Y (say, Oxford Circus to Buckingham Palace) and tries to capture the walk in ten pictures...

Food for thought?

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