Pentax DA* 300mm f4 and the new Pentax 1.4x TC that is "supposedly" coming soon.
Not quite 500mm but probably better quality than the Bigma, a lot smaller to carry and a damn sharp 300mm prime as well.

What a gorgeous looking animal, nicely caught.
Def looks better without the twigs.

Starting to annoy me now.
I am quite happy to have adverts, I know they are needed to pay for hosting and suchlike but do we have to have ones that have sound as well?

In the last 2 days I have had some female telling me her name is Kim and would I like to meet her friend and today I have what looks like an egg timer that makes a constant drip drip sound.

It's driving me bonkers, I am all for covering costs etc so have not installed an Ad blocker yet but the time is not far off.

I was out in the forest with the dog a few months back and was walking along when all of a sudden this bloody great big bird (No idea what it was, eagle .. hawk, something like that) swooped down, grabbed a rodent out of the bushes and flew back up again.
It can only have been 4 or 5 metres away from me.

My camera was in my hand but as I took the shot I realised .. it was turned off.

Gutted.

I have the Adptall 2 90mm 72B lens and use it with no problem on my K10D (Adaptall 2 PKA mount).

Mine is manual focus though .....

Thought I would have another bash ...

Nothing wrong with those.

2 and 3 may benefit from being straightened up though ..

Cheers for the comments

K10D on tripod with infared release and onboard flash
Clear bowl half filled with water under tap with plastic orange/green tuppaware lid underneath.

Set tap to run and then (MF) focused on where it was running, turned tap to very slow drip and then as the drip left tap fired the shutter to catch it just as it hit the water in the bowl.

Once you get in time with the drip its fairly easy to get a shot.

Did notice though that with the flash up the fastest shutter speed I could get is 1/180 which seems a bit restrictive ?

Vivitar 100mm f2.8 macro lens.

One from my Vivitar 100mm f2.8 macro.