Welcome aboard Keith. Some most excellent shots you have shared with us. I am duly impressed. I hope that you will continue to share your photos and your insights.
-- Best regards, Bruce Friday, December 23, 2005, 10:06:44 PM, you wrote: KM> Seeing Perry de-lurk (un-lurk?) has prompted me to take the same KM> (big) step, although I have only been lurking for about 18 days. KM> I'm a lapsed Pentax user, happily returned to the fold. The first KM> real camera I owned was (actually, is, as I still have it) a KM> Pentax Super-A, bought in 1984 (along with a few lenses, flash KM> and other bits and pieces). I loved using that camera but...a KM> familiar story...got doing other things... KM> As some others have found, the convenience [For me! No debate KM> will be entered into!] of working digitally revitalised my KM> interest in photography (as a hobby, although I teach biology and KM> do use my pictures for that). When I finally decided to get a KM> digital SLR I found, to my great delight, that I could get a KM> Pentax AND use my old lenses. So I am now the pleased owner of an KM> *ist DL (the DS2 not being available here -- Darwin, Australia -- KM> or so I was told, perhaps wrongly; and, anyway, I like the DL KM> just fine). KM> I find the volume of messages on the list a bit daunting but KM> there's some great stuff here. And I like the idea of PESO, PAW KM> and PAD. KM> Best wishes to all, where-ever you are and what-ever you are KM> celebrating! KM> Keith KM> PS As a biologist, it's probably not too surprising that I mostly KM> take (or try to take) nature shots... KM> http://www.users.bigpond.com/keith.mcguinness/ph/peso/index.html
