Autumn impressions - Colours

Please follow the link to see the full gallery of autumn pictures. I hope you'l like the pictures. I also hope someone finally will leave his comments here;-)

New plfoto.com account

I have created an account on the plfoto.com website. I will put some of my photos there.
You may see them with the following link:

• http://plfoto.com/uzytkownik.php?authorid=20318

Please have a look, and if you have an account on the service, vote;-)

New lenses: Sigma 24-70 3,5-5,6 D HF Aspherical

I have just received my new lenses. It is Sigma 24-70 3,5-5,6 D HF Aspherical. It has some advantages over my Minolta 28-80D 3,5-5,6:

1. It is compatible with Minolta D lenses.
2. It has inner focusing system.
3. It is 4mm wider, than my current lenses - very important, when you have to deal with 1.5 crop factor. I will not miss this 10mm on the narrow end - this is not a big issue for D7D.
   
4. It looks nicer on D7D body;-)
5. It was really, really cheap: roughly equivalence of $60.
   

Here is a link to the official detailed description.

Of course this is not the end of spending, unfortunately. I need at least a UV filter, a circular polar filter, and P adapter for my Cokin system.

I wonder if I should buy a UV filter from the top shelf, or cheaper one... For the time being, I have read that multicoating is very important in digital photography...

Fortunately, I have a polar filter 58mm. I will use a reduction 62mm -> 58mm- I hope vignetting will not be a big issue. The CCD matrix is smaller than film, besides, even if sigma has 62mm filter diameter, than the diameter of glass seem to be smaller than on my Minolta 28-80 with 55mm filter diameter.

Since I bought this lenses, now I can have my analog Dynax 5 in working state at the same time.

ZOO BOTANICA 2005

The pictures I published today were taken at ZOO BOTANICA. It is a fair organized annually in Wrocław, in town where I live. The Wrocław Aquarists' Association, which I am a member of, also takes part in this event. This year I took a couple of good pictures, and I plan to put here some more...

There were some very peculiar people at ZOO BOTANICA... 

I like the shape and colour of this fish... 

Undersea beauty? No, you can see it in the aquarium... Aquarium exhibition at ZOO BOTANICA 2005 in Wrocław. 

After a while

As you see, it's been a long time, since I published anything. Lack of time...
But that does not mean I did not take photos - to the contrary, I took lots of them.
I even made a small photo exhibition in my home town. Perhaps I put some of those photos here.

Sunset on the Oder. Picture taken from the barge. 

The cloud 

Grazer Collection

Today I posted several photos from my visit in Graz, Austria.
Please feel free to comment them.

Restaurant At The Edge Of The Universe At Night 

The Pavillion at the dark 

Just being together... 

The Sunset at Schlossberg 2 

The Sunset at Schlossberg  

The tree on the edge 

Through the flowers 2 

Through the flowers 

At the Edge of the Universe 

The Church in Maria Schutz 2 

The Church in Maria Schutz 

The motorway bridge 

The Soccer Under the Bridge 

Under the Bridge 

The Figure 

Old building of the the post service 

DOM im Berg 

Schlossberg 

Dark side of Graz