Stefan ,

Oh yes - I've now no problems with camera shake and though I need to work on composition I can see improvement . I'm willing to have a go at any time now and not think , ' that's not going to work'.

Once this spell of weather is over, I'll take it into Town and get some of the pics that were not successful with the Kodak and then I'll be able to compare the successful Kodak ones with the K-x ones - which should be interesting .

Some nice, understated and totally beautiful gold jewellery .The sort that doesn't scream 'look at me I'm expensive' but will make her feel good wearing it .

Buying my K-x and taking the first photos with it

It gave me a heck of a thrill seeing the quality of the picture that I got .

My preference, having owned a Dalmatian , would be to take shots of the dog when it is moving- they sort of dance and bounce along - very light on their feet and when happy the tail is up and waving .

On furniture - umm well a full grown Dalmatian is quite a size and ours was pretty lazy - spent his time either stretched out in front of the fire [ and a full grown Dalmatian takes up a LOT of room when stretched out ] or curled up occupying one of our armchairs .

You are going to need the owners co-operation to get his attention otherwise he will look quite dull . Ours would do anything for a bit of cheese Do NOT offer chocolate - it is not good for them .

Was thinking of batteries for my Metz 48 .

I notice you say Eneloop - any reason that I should not try with Hybrios ?

I still have a set of 4 never been used ones , and battery carrying is now going to increase - set in camera + spare and set in Flash + spare

Dalmatian hair is very very fine and short - the skin underneath is slightly pink except where there are the black [ or liver ] spots . The hairs get everywhere .

Don't have ANYTHING within reach of its tail - that is hard and really can sweep anything off a table .

Stefan - that's a great idea - but it really does depend on the degree of 'spottyness' I've seen some lovely dogs - but the spots almost ran into each other.

Now that sounds an excellent idea - the walk first but it needs to be about 4 miles I suspect

See if you can get him interested in a titbit they are holding - the head will come up nicely and he will be very alert and the tail has a wonderful upwards curve.

If you can get him in motion they have a lovely light , almost off the ground appearance , sort of bouncing along very gracefully , oh and they can leap like stags if they want - ours cleared a 5 foot fence without any trouble - one jump and he was over

Being honest - not black or white or even grey if it's a B&W Dalmatian - a lot depends on just how spotty the dog is.

And remember that Dalmatians are full of low cunning [ great food thieves ] but don't have much of a brain and have a very short attention span. They really are carriage dogs - and superb at the job.

I wish you luck

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