That's great! Do you name them as well (or there are too may of them)?

I like the robin - really nice.

Hello and welcome Now experiment to choose a proper lens to take a really good picture of your wife

Hello and welcome

I took some pictures late evening on Monday. Despise a drizzly weather and ice on the roads I took my bike and adventurously went to the town centre Unfortunately the snow + rain settled on my lens all the time, and as DA 16-45mm has quite a short hood it didn't protect it well. As I mentioned in another thread I will consider some cottage cheese or yoghurt cup next time I hoped to go to a few more places, but it started snow-raining even more and I fled home. My wife was more lucky, she went with children to the park around noon and they build a snowman and took some pictures. Not with Pentax though.

All taken with K20D on (cheap) tripod, DA 16-45 mm. The camera is really well sealed, and the lens survived as well

Now, much less bravely, there are some of my pictures. They are rather yellow, but I didn't edit that. First, probably I'd get best results converting RAW images, but I lack skills yet (and using linux I have limited tools choice). Second, the street lamps they cast that yellowish light and this is how I remember it. Well, maybe a bit less yellow

1) This one is overexposed, but looked so shiny Any idea how can I remove water-drop marks? I'm afraid I'm rubbish in postprocessing - I tried cloning them out, but the result was even worse than before.
ISO 200, f/8.0, 8.8 sec., 24mm
[IMG]http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo284/misiek_knm/imgp0524.jpg[/IMG]

2)
ISO 200, f/5.6, 1 sec, EV -1, 16mm
[IMG]http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo284/misiek_knm/imgp0533.jpg[/IMG]

3)
ISO 200, f/5.6, 2 sec, EV +0.5, 21mm
[IMG]http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo284/misiek_knm/imgp0536.jpg[/IMG]

4)
ISO 200, f/4.0, 0.7 sec, EV -1, 23mm
[IMG]http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo284/misiek_knm/imgp0539.jpg[/IMG]

Great shots. Once I have to try something similar - I'm quite tempted now

Sweet! And she is smiling

Hi Paul, and welcome

Talking about the snow - yesterday late evening (about 9pm) I took my bike, went to the town centre and took few pictures. But it was some snow / rain drizzling, quite unpleasant. What worse it was geting onto the lens all the time. I used DA 16-45mm - it has quite a short hood. Any ideas for a future improvement? I thought about making some longer hood made of cottage cheese cup...
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...erm, nice you stopped laughing already

Do you have any other good ideas? And as my lens is not waterproof - I have some concerns about using it in such weather. It survived, although the 'inner tube' (the one which slides out when zooming in) get a bit wet so back home I dried it up few times with a soft cloth, but probably next time I should use some kind of rain cover?

Gwyn's right. And to be serious - I also don't buy the latest PC equipment - it's half price after couple of months anyway, and it should serve me more than one year. The same with the camera - I bought K20D recently and I don't think I'll buy any newer in next few years. There's always a newer, better one. If not now - it will be in a few months.