They do seem to bring a warmth to the heart after such a long winter, lovely shot Kris.

Ian

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Taken with the sigma 17/70 on the penax K100 d

I love this time of year with the new growth in the borders leading into a realy nice summer, I hope LOL.
Ian

Your not wrong there she could charm the birds from the trees.
Ian

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This is Ella at 8 weeks of age.

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Swan enjoying the heat of the midd day sun took with the Tamron 70/300 on the Pentax K100 D AT F8 1/1000 ISO 200 160mm.
Ian

Think I may just stay with what I have for the time being and may be carry the two cameras with lenses that will suit the job.
Ian

The Tamron 90mm has some great reveiws the guy I mentioned in my earlier post said it is a fantastic lens for the money. I think also the sigma also have some pretty impressive reveiws.
Ian


http://www.photozone.de/all-tests

I have the Sigma 10/20, 17/70 and the Tamron 70/300 and have been very happy with them all,although the Sigma 10/20 did take a little getting used to. I talked with a guy last weeek who was shooting with a Canon and has been in the game for many years semi pro and he realy rates Tamron lenses some over and above the beloved Canon. He did shoot with Pentax at one point but went over to Canon some time ago.
Ian

Have you considerd the Tamron 90 mm it has some very good reveiws.
Ian

http://www.photozone.de/canon-eos/282-tamron-af-90mm-f28-di-sp-macro-test-report...

[quote:3496ace15f="impotentspider"]Tut Tut! some nut has left a bolt lying around

They make a nice set except for the first, no forground interest. couldn't you have hung around for a barge or something, it looked warm enough

I also noticed the flowers, these things really annoy me. I can understand that someone would want to place flowers or other tributes where tragedys have taken place but what gets my back up is the fact that they just leave them there to wither and die and let some other mug go clean up their mess.[/quote

Probably could have waited for a boat or something but the problem is I may be still sitting around and it's 23/30 so may be a bit dark now LOL.