Thank you for that JR.

Curiously enough I'm currently thinking about buying a Kr and have the option of three examples (two of which are ex-demo's). Basically I want to shift up a notch from my K100D Super and the Kr seems-on paper- to fit the bill. Upon such a basis, I'm keen to know if the Kr does indeed represent a significant upgrade in relation to the K100D?

The concept for the remainder of what would ultimately become known as Scotland was constructed by the Galactic Blim following a successful tender for works issued by Crunthuspian Clattergrip Terrastructures CLC.

...I'm somewhat surprised by the fact that you weren't aware of this eventuality?

I would like to visit Scotland, but I want to see spectacular places where I can take awesome pictures...suggestions? Maybe some photos as well?

I suspect God might possibly have created Scotland with a long term view to the DSLR camera. For a seven day sortie I'd keep it simple, start from Dunoon and then head to a hotel or whatever beside Loch Awe. From there proceed to blow your socks off with what you'll want to photograph in and around Argyll and Bute thereafter.
Over past and numerous visits to Scotland I have shot down the throat of a basking shark, had to stop the car whilst a family of short eared owls played silly buggers in the middle of the road, stumbled upon a Golden eagle sitting on a mound fifteen yards from the side of the road and shot a Sea eagle coming straight at me twenty foot above the waves...amongst many other things. For a dynamic sense of Scotland's very distant past (I'm a student of archaeology so this kind of floats my boat) visit what I've termed as 'the valley of the lithics' from Cairnbaan through Kilmartin on the A816. Here you'll find some 800 ancient stone circles etc all waiting for you to photograph them against suitably dark & brooding Scottish skies

Scotland is full of endless photographic wonders, so just go...and enjoy!

So I dial into a review of the new K30 and find out that I've to pay £9+ for a Pentax Plus Membership in order to receive a review of said camera. Forget it...I'll await a non-partisan appraisal from the photographic world instead.

I accidentally swiped my 'Pennie' from the roof of our car. It dropped down and hit the cill of the open rear door, spun through the air and then landed on the ground with a somewhat expensive (and quite frankly sickening) sounding 'thud'.
Upon checking it out (with a feeling of dread and baited breath of course) I found that I had simply suffered a crack in the lens hood, which was good given that I had just arrived on Arran and had ten days of potential Golden Eagle photography ahead of me!

I don't know about bomb proof dude, but somewhat robust they would definitely seem to be.

I'm with John here in that we do indeed go about our photography in the way that suits each of us the best or perhaps (like me) suits our individual levels of photographic ability at any given point in time. I'm not a 'natural' with a camera, nor quite frankly will I ever be but I nonetheless love the subject, love my K100D and love the prospect of improving my technique and skills each time I power it up.
Where I'm currently working they have resident (nesting) Kestrels, roving Kites and ever present Buzzards drifting around within decent telephoto range so I'm using a Tamron 70-300 in combination with a X2 converter ( obviously giving me a potential 600) set to manual focus. I have to be lucky enough to have the camera in my hand, clock the incoming
These sundry (and beautiful) critters don't test whatever natural photographic eye you might have, they instead test your camera preparation, degree of coolness under instant pressure and your reflexes(or lack of therein)
They also determine to what extent your 'splash of luck' might also happen to be at any particular moment during their fleeting appearances.

For the record and after 1/3rd of my stay currently played out amidst these various critters, they are basically thrashing me hands (or wings) down, so any advise offered subsequent to this posting will be taken on board with much appreciation.

I wrote 'Divert this threat...' was this perhaps an -albeit somewhat obscure- Freudian slip one subsequently now wonders?

In fact as a result of your blatant efforts to divert this threat I suggest that you now go off to a dark corner and thrash your own buttocks repeatedly with a suitably thick copy of some photographic journal or another.

What the hell has any of this to do with stacking wood in the woodshed...get a grip man and follow the thread!!