New AF-S VR Micro Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED

 
This finally arrived the other day after being on order for more than 6 months. This means I now have a 'spare' Tamron 90mm Macro - probably will try and sell (its a lovely lens but I like the VR on the Nikon)

You might have already seen the shots I took using this at Richmond Park (remember to go to www.pinnells.com to see all the latest photos from ALL the blogs). This is the first macro shot I have taken with it though. Inside, hand-held, using SB800 speedlight. Nice 

Bluebell Railway Photos

Bluebell Railway

Some more pictures from our day out at the Bluebell Railway for Ethan's 2nd Birthday

Red sky in the morning

 
No time to get d200, tripod out, so this was hand held on the Ixus against the window. 

The Tech Report - Power consumption and Vista's Aero interface

Great article on power consumption on new systems running Microsoft Windows Vista Aero Interface.

Bottom line - brief spike up to 15% when doing 3d task view/switcher but apart from that you get the nice 'Glass' UI features for only marginal power consumption increase.
The Tech Report - Power consumption and Vista's Aero interface

More Macro

  
Some of you may have spotted that some photos are either not showing up on blog entries, or are truncated (in small version or large version you get when you click on them) - this is not intentional but is caused by some bug between Picasa 2 "Blog This!" function being selected and pictures being uploaded to my ftp server via Blogger... :(

I've been trying to find a fix - trawling through Picasa Help Groups - but no luck - just downloaded slightly newer build of Picasa2 - but hasn't improved things.

Meanwhile the Whisky bottle looks nice.

Full Bodied Spirit

  

Daniel's Hundred's and Thousand's Trifle