Well one of the hottest days of the year so far and was rushing to get to this event, a charity cancer relief race. Got there and got the cam out, had the sigma 70-200 f2.8 on just put on lens hood and swung it on shoulder only missed. fell to ground hard sun baked mud. Hit the ground lens hood first, then body. Picked it up and placed it gingerly to my eye. And there in the viewfinder was three black horizontal bands !!By now I was really sweating, OK I thought lets get somewhere quieter and see whats wrong. Sat under a shady tree, turned back on looked through viewfinder and same issue. Took a shot and it seemed fine on screen. Removed lens to see if I could see what problem was, and the focus screen and frame had came down, tried pushing back into place but it just kept dropping back down. Anyway after much fiddleing with it, it did go back into place and everything seems fine now. The lens hood on the sigma saved the day I think, you could see clearly where it had impacted with the dry mud, needed a good clean when I got in. Not a mark on the cam and works flawlessly. Good old tough Pentax.

Thanks for the advice fellas.

OK its summer the days are getting hotter and using the camera involves very sweaty palms. So I try and keep my hands dry and clean but inevitably grim and sweat will get onto the camera body. So what, if anything do you guys and gals use to wipe the camera body?

Shot from below, looking up into a lovely summers sky.



Shot indoors, using our black leather sofa as background, and my fav.




All shot with the Sigma 105macro K20d

Focus is spot on there, love the green tones, maybe darken the background a tad?

Very nicely done, great image.

As said, nice colours and contrasts there, I love red and black.

I like the composition and the use of narrow depth of field in these, first two I like the best.

Agree with above, like th way it fills the frame though, gives a great sense of scale to the shot.

Yes a very capture. Haven't been there for a few years, must revisit.