sometimes everything just works out perfect.

We are finally done with our vacation planning and will spend some time in the high sierras. This will be arround august.

I managed to sell my 70-300 mm el cheapo lens and added the money I got, to purchase a 70-300mm VR lens which came with 50$ rebeate. So it was affordable.
After it was delivered today I just put it on my camera and a little bird decided to check it out and landed in the tree in front of me. Sadly it was in the late afternoon so I had to shoot the picture at iso 800 and is only usable in black and white, but it was handhold and the VR works damn well.

Sofar I'm very happy with this lens, except that it's a little bit heavy and my small hiking backpack only fits 3 lenses now. Which means I need to decide what I take with me.

Sofar I packed it with:

70 - 300 mm VR zoom
10 - 20 mm UWA zoom
90mm macro

and a flash. Maybe I can squeeze somehow my 50mm F/1.8 or tokina 19-35mm in, but I doubt it. If I need more gear I always can grab my big hiking packback.

So what else, I stopped at our local hiking shop and got me some hiking pants and shoes. Little bit later I ordered a gps system for our trip, which was fairly cheap for 160$ and should take care that we don't get lost. It was kinda annoying to loose my car in the desert last year and I don't want to experience this again.

Lindsay is right now in San Diego and I'm going to visit her in 2 weeks and also move some stuff for a friend down there. Which means I can spend another 200$ on gas.