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Thurnham Castle (or what's left of it) near Detling, Kent    A900 +24-70 zeiss

Preaching to the Unconverted Outside Cannon Street Station

great shots! the first one has a movie poster vibe about it.  Six weeks is a long trip look forward to seeing more from it!

Placed 8^th in the challenge.

Placed 54^th in the challenge. SONY DSC

Have to disagree - your shot, to me, does not seem as sharp as some of the OP's shots

Placed 17^th in the challenge. Came across this poignant roadside memorial driving back from Dungeness. Pilot Officer Clarke's remains are still in the plane, buried in the marsh from the impact, at the request of his family:-

Placed 16^th in the challenge. Robert Johnson's grave

Placed 53^rd in the challenge.

I had a kind of similar experience at Argos.  I travelled to an east London store to get a good deal on its last A300 kit as i recall.  Got to the store and duly paid and got what i supposed to be...

Just looked at the Wex site and was staggered to see how much the new 300mm is (£6,699) compared to the existing one (£4,799) thats £2,500 higher than the nikon equivalent and £1,500 higher than...

I find these sort of posts to be some sort of self justification and only truly relevant to the OP.  Anyone reading this will, in all likelihood, have already made a decision on brand/camera etc...

I used the the HVL20 as an emergency back up for some concert shots (ranging from 10-25 feet although not bounced)when the shoe of my HVL58 broke.  See this thread on Photoclubalpha for the...

Great Shots, you must be pleased.  Unfortunately it looks like next year is the last year the Vulcan will be flying according to website and facebook page so must make sure and get some...

I agree with Dlkeller if you can, join a camera club, one with regular competitions with independent judges coming in to assess.  You will, i promise, learn a lot.   Other than that there are...

It was a survey of 1012 people so obviously with such a big sample you can apply that to all DSLR users :-).  As I've posted on a similar thread in Flickr, that's the problem with using surveys to...

A900 & 24-70  A900 & 70-400  A900 & 70-400

I agree but as an A900 user its good to know there is a replacement available now!Richard --Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at...

As always a pleasure to view and a bit of a departure from the studio to say the least!Ilya - tempted by the A99?RegardsRichard --Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having...

Hmmm... interesting that this lens has been around both in Minolta and Sony incartnations for some time and people from the samples I've seen have managed to cope with it? I'm sure focus peeaking...