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Garden day

My fuji apple planted along the line of the espalier didn’t have a chance. With the introduction of new chickens into the flock, the dog became very excited with his new minions to be subjugated.

Not being allowed to hurt the chickens, the dog took out his frustration on my poor tree, and gnawed it down to a stump.

My first crop of tomatoes appear to be doing well though, and include some special galapagos tomatoes courtesy of Dimitry the tomato guru from permaculture.

First pics with Nikon D300s

Knowing not a lot about photography (other than a lifetime of whacking the camera into ‘Auto’ and pressing the button), I’d spoken to a few friends and done some net research http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/nikkor.htm about what lens to get. I decided on the Nikon 18-200mm which seems to do it all.

I’d had a few tamron 28-200mm in the past. The big heavy early ones did a degree of macro, and the later one was ok, but unsatisfactory for its minimum distance to shoot (about 1 metre meaning a lot of lost shots). I’d also been unhappy with the color & sharpness of the pics on my D70, and put it down to the D70.

The Nikon 18-200mm was a revelation. Nice pics, easy and quiet focusing, vibration reduction. Just for fun I whacked it on the D70 and magically, the D70 started to sing! It is true what they say about getting a decent SLR body but getting the best lens you can afford.

Now to find some camera/photography classes.