this time the lens was in focus and damn I love the 90mm tamerom macro. It's so incredible sharp.

Btw he stole a peanut!

this was the perfect opurtunity for a wounderfull picture of the day and I screwed it up. Accidently the flash fired and the lens was not focussed correctly.
So it was the best what I could make out of this picture and it would have been awesome if it would have been in focus and without flash. I still like, but to unsharp :(

during our park visit we where so lucky to find a deer. This was roughly a 1/2 - 3/4 mile away fromour car on a short hike. Like always I was lazy and had only my wideangle with me and so I sprinted back to the car, got my 300mm el cheapo zoom and got back ot the place and tried to get some shots of the deer.
Like always there was not enough light available and my el cheapo is not well known for incredible sharpness or detail. So this was the best I got do at ISO 1600 using a tripod and being 30 yards away.

One day I find a used 80-200mm F/2.8 for under 400$. I can't see me spending more for this on a lens.

it finally happens after 2 years of endless planning we finally managed to visit yosomite. And it's wounderfull.

We only did a visit to find out which places are nice and what can you see and how the roads are before we go camping there.

As first the roads are extrem narrow and curvy. My record was 1 and 1/2 turns of the steering wheel to get arround the curve and at less than 20 mph. So its a fun drive.

What ya need:

1. good sturdy boots
2. sun lotion
3. 2 par of free hands

What ya get:

1. waterfalls
2. climbing
3. hiking

The trails are all 4 miles+ long so about 4 - 5 hours a trail. So you need to plan a 2 day visit at least. You can catch fish and there are several small rivers. We did not find any bears, but a couple of deers and where engaged by a gang of squirrels. We got away, but it was damn close. The sqiurrels got away with one of the peanuts.

Picture wise it's wounderfull and you can make lost of nice composistions. I just felt a little bit limited by 3 factors.

1. you need a waist belt to carry your stuff, backpack is not a smart idea
2. a tripod is perfect as wander stick
3. damn I wish I had a 10 - 20mm ultrawide angle from sigma. 19-35 are just not wide enough.

picture wise i getting better, only shoot 80 and kept most of them. But like always you can find the bestoff on my picassa web site. I'm happy that I invested the 120$ last year for a nice circular polarizer. It works wounders with all kinds of reflections.

The picture was my favorite shot of the day.