This just reminds me a short story written as a diary of a man who moved to mountains First couple of days he loved everything and then his attitude started changing to yours

Yves, look at that differently Snow is amazing and wonderful for 2-weeks holiday.

Kris, I hope you mean motorbike, not just a bike (I ride bike, but I mean bicycle then) Possibly there will be some place in my car's boot, we have 7-seater but with 3 children it's not that spacey as someone might think

I hope it will be sunny, warm nice weather - I'm coming with wife and children, they would be quite disappointed otherwise.

Store a lot on harddrive / backup, view from time to time. I share with / send to family (parents mostly) a lot of pictures - we live quite far so usually we see each other once or twice a year.

And I agree with beakynet - also cannot wait for a quality colour e-ink photo frames. The current (LCD) are power consuming, and most of them are of poor quality.

Hello Jamal, and welcome

Why, pylons are good shoot-points. They said they wanted just them, no power lines, so they should be safe enough (considering no stormy weather). Climb on and woo-hey! Just don't forget long telelens and lunch + hot tea.

Mike, #2 and #3 are dreary, I like them Have fun with the new toy (actually it seems you already do)

Scary great pictures, fascinating really - I've shown them to my children and they liked them too.

Stefan:
Thanks. Seems that the software I use they use settings much different to the camera's - the result (if I do not change settings at all) differ totally from the jpgs produced by the camera.

Peter:
I'm not sure how other applications do, but at least RawTherapee I use saves my changes into separate files (same file name, different extension) and next time I open 'edited' RAW files it just loads the changes from them - so my changes are visible, but I can reset them in any time.

Beautiful, the clouds look awesome (esp. on #2), and the lakes have nice colour. I just wonder if the bluish haze is avoidable (ie using UV or skylight filter)?

Stefan, you lost me, I'm afraid. So which of the RAW formats keeps the jpg settings, PEF or DNG?
Then, it seems it's up to the software if it uses the saved setup, is that correct? I use Linux software like RawTherapee or UFRaw - I'm not sure if they can use them. At least it seems that they don't looking at RAW picture when opened.