t's a fantastic shot of Mt Iron in Sillouete (whers my spell check?) Can see the Grahame Sydney resemblence but his turf is mainly in the Maniototo. That would look great in any lounge mounted as a large canvas.

Conners wrote:Good to hear wuffster
Out of interest - do you know if the 450D has the same compatibility issues with Sigma? (I should just get off my arse and google it myself I know....)

I had a 450d and a Sigma 10-20mm Wideangle and never had any compatibility issues.

thelongwalk wrote:Taken with a canon 450D with a 50mm 1.4. Post processing is the very exclusive picassa3 , click on auto colour and auto contrast. If it looks good it stays, if not, unclick. Thats the sum of my skills

Nice one! It's a truly great shot in my opinion.


Interesting withthe 50mm too, I'm loving my 1.8 at the moment - initially I had to force myself to use it, now it lives on the camera and gets taken off when I need to zoom (rather than the other way around). I shot some portraits recently using both the 50 and my kit 18-55, the prime just blows the kit lens out of the water....

Love the mt irons shot!

Still got my 50/1.8 but have a sigma 50/1.4 too which gets used more, keep meaning to sell the
ol canon.

Heres a couple from the sigma:







A 400L shot:


And Lake Hayes:

That shot with the tinny by the lake is Awesome.

Tararua Ranges from Kelburn this morning...

I love that view. Nice photo Fango

Dang there are some nice landscapes coming out over the last couple of days!

Another fine shot Fango

Thx for all the positive comments, will try to take more pictures. Also pic is looking from the slopes of Mount Iron to the North west, the hill you see is called Mount maude or Mord I think

Rescued this little critter from my devil of a cat just after lunch time today. Took a few photos then condemned it to death by being eaten.

You're not supposed to eat rats maing, it's inhumane.

You're*

And I didn't, my cat did.

And if its inhumane for a cat to eat a rat, then are you going to give up steak, chicken and bacon? Surely a human eating a cow is worse.

wuffy wrote:And if its inhumane for a cat to eat a rat, then are you going to give up steak, chicken and bacon? Surely a human eating a cow is worse.

I suppose a cat can't be inhumane because it's not human. Not eating the rat would have been unfeline.

My 11 year old has moved on from photographing the inside of her brother's nose to nature studies in the back yard


and her own constructions.

I really like the way the wet fur appears to be swirling in a pattern similar but opposite to the cross-hatch of whatever jar/cage you dropped it in. It also captures the despair evident in its awareness that though condemned to death and the experience of a last meal, it is rather poignantly and ironically a combination of the two concepts into one event which is about to happen.

wuffy wrote:Rescued this little critter from my devil of a cat just after lunch time today. Took a few photos then condemned it to death by being eaten.

wuffy you just won some sony gear from P&V!?