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Lucky fellow

Welcome to the forum

Lovely - and nice composition with the wee path and square crop

I used to live in Herts, and the bluebell woods are one of its glories, so happy to see this. Though you'll probably now tell me this was taken in a Yorkshire or somewhere else

+1. Great variety.

Is there nothing this man can't do?

And the crop is sharp sharp sharp

Thanks for the comments everyone... much appreciated

I would have liked to go wider, but immediately to the left of the frame there was a yellow dump truck, parked up next to some path re-building works. Rather spoilt the ambience



For interest, here's a quick B&W version of #1





Not sure I prefer this to the colour version. Found it difficult to emphasise the mist in a B&W conversion

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Really admire your cojones for this sort of thing

Thanks QC... useful advice.

I'll have a play with B&W for the first one - that's a good idea . The green hasn't been boosted on these - it's just the way it came out - but I'll see what they're like if I bring it down a notch.

Just back from a weeks hols in the Lake District and starting to work through the images

Here are some taken handheld with the 18-135, walking down the River Brathay after photographing dawn over Elterwater.

As always C&C most welcome, although I do know some of these are (nicely) soft


#1 Mist on the River




#2 Morning Light




#3 A duck




#4 A Nuthatch (if you look carefully :wink




#5 Fence

I had a similar dilemma when starting up with pentax, but in contrast to others here went down the prime route - specifically collecting the DA Ltds. For me this worked because the main reason I went with Pentax is the possibility of a really compact DSLR setup, which I truly value. The DA Ltds are beautifully made and great to use, and I can take 3/4 of them out with me in a very small bag. I don't mind the faff of changing between them as most of my photography is landscape based, and I also like the thought processes involved in using primes. Slows me down a bit, which is good

But I do have the 18-135 as a general purpose lens, and using this makes me fully appreciate the convenience and possibilities of zooms. And some of the images I've seen from the 50-135 have been stunning.

Quality in both of your paths... really depends on your personal preferences and the type of photography you mostly do !