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<p>I've been missing from here for a few months. Here is one from the weekend.<br>

d80 + 17-55mm @ 55mm, f7.1, 1/320, iso 100</p>

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<p>I don't think that is a Yak, looks like Highland Cattle to me. Nice expression</p>

<p>Nikon D80 +17-55mm f2.8 @ 55mm, f4, 1/125, iso100<br>

Cork City, Ireland</p><div></div>

<p>Matthew Brennan, Lil Judd, MS Keil, Jose Angel, Kent Shafer, Chris Court thanks for the comments.<br /> <br /> <br /> Lil, I am pretty sure it's Barley<br /> <br /> Jose, Fancy White mountain bike shoes! I am guessing you have a drier climate than we do here in Ireland<br /> <br /> Matthew Brennan, great light in your frosty landscape, I hadn't realised you had frosts there either.<br /> <br /> <br /> Indranil Chandra, Moab looks stunning, it's on my list of places to go cycling before I die</p>

<p>So she took her love<br /> For to gaze a while<br /> Upon the fields of barley<br /> In his arms she fell as her hair came down<br /> Among the fields of gold</p>

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<p>This is actually something I have been thinking about lately as I mostly go cycling and hill walking and take the camera rather than going out just on a photo expedition. At the moment I have a d80, sigma 10-20mm, 17-55mm and sigma 30mm. The only feasible outfit really is the d80 and the 10-20 stuffed in my rucksack, though for cycle touring on road I have taken the 17-55 instead.<br>

I am giving serious consideration to changing to a Pentax k20d (sorry!) as Pentax have such a nice range of very small and light crop primes. Either that or maybe keep the d80, sell all my lenses and get the Nikon 12-24, 35dx and either a 50 or the 60 micro. The 16-85 vr is an ideal range in many ways but the slowness of the lens puts me off.</p>

<p>Nice door Pedro, I have a bit of a thing for decayed doors and windows too.</p>

<p>From one of my lunchtime wanders.<br>

D80 + 17-55mm f2.8 @ 20mm, f5.6, 1/400, iso100</p>

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<p>I was away on a cyling tour with my wife for a week. We cycled the length of Ireland with some rather mixed weather so not many shots. This was probably the best taken in West Cork near Bantry</p>

<p>D80 + 17-55mm @f7.1, 1/250, iso100</p>

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<p>Bernard, Lil thanks for the encouragement :)</p>

<p>I will be away on a cycling holiday next week and be sad to miss this thread, see you in #23 !</p>

<p>Lovely shot Matthew</p>

<p>Since it's Bluebells time of year I thought I'd have a go at shooting some this week. For some reason I chose b&w for this colourful little plant.<br>

D80 + 55mm f3.5 AI @ f5.6(I think), 1/40, iso 100, Chimp metering, tripod mounted</p>

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<p>If you are happy with the 18-35 and use it 95% of the time I'd be more tempted to buy a prime to go with it and take those 2 travelling. You don't have a nice fast prime in your bag at the moment. Looking at the focal length you use most on the 28-105 would probably give you a good idea. Maybe a 50mm or maybe one of the 60mm macros if you feel you'd like a macro lens.</p>

<p>Personally I have the 17-55, its a bit of a lump for lightweight travelling but I love it too much to leave it at home :)</p>

<p>Matthew - another lovely landscape<br /> Alejandro - great light</p>

<p>Just a lunchtime snap this week from me. I was waiting for someone to walk in the shot but no one ever came.<br /> Nikon D80 + Sigma 30mm f1.4 @ f1.4, 1/200, iso 100</p><div></div>

<p>This is the ESB Power station in Cork City, Ireland. It is just down the docks from where I work so taken at lunchtime last week.<br>

D80 + Sigma 30mm f1.4 @ f8, 1/320, iso 100</p>

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<p>love that shot Tom</p>

<p>"I like also Shawn's & Sjoerd's one for being really "fine art","</p>

<p>Thanks, no one has ever accused me of that before :)</p>

<p>I picked up the Sigma 30mm soon after the Nikon became available because of the less CA, wider view and better bokeh. I didnt buy an f1.4 lens for it's bokeh stopped down to f4.<br>

It's a very nice lens and about twice the size of the Nikon.</p>

<p>Sorry I only shot film last week and it's still in the FM2 so you'll have to make do with one from the week before that I processed.<br /> D80 + Sigma 30mm f1.4 @ f3.5, 1/160, iso 200</p><div></div>

<p>Funny out of the 3 lenses you have the only one you like is the one that I would say doesn't pop on a D80!<br>

I found the 20 2.8 not even as good as my 18-70 at the same apertures especially at the corners. So I sold them both and got the 17-55, it pops. <br>

You get used to the size but when it really is too bulky I just take my Sigma 30mm f1.4 instead, a lens I am starting to like a lot...be warned though thats as big as your 20 and 35 added together too.</p>

<p>F100 if you want familiarity and more lens compatability, they are a lovely camera.<br>

FM2 if you want a great basic camera that is an absolute joy to use.<br>

I've had both but I still have the FM2 for when I want a change from the D80.</p>

<p>Nice shot Jose love the reflected colours in the chairs, and a weird conincidence since the shot I had choosen for this week also involves chairs, bokeh, f1.4 and a European city!<br>

Taken in Cork, Ireland on Friday evening while I had a couple of hours to kill waiting for my wife.<br>

Nikon D80 + Sigma 30mm @ f1.4, 1/640, iso100</p><div></div>

<p>Gert, H. Ting, Georg S, Jose Angel thanks for the kind words</p>

<p>Some great contributions this week I particularly like<br>

Matthew Brennan's landscape & <br /> Hector Andrade's birds</p>

<p>Jose Angel, that's quite a powerful image.</p>

<p>Mine for this week is taken in The Burren, County Clare, Ireland. I spent the weekend there with my wife taking alot of shots as the weather was great. This is my favourite image out of what I have processed so far, one of the beautiful stone walls.<br>

D80 + 17-55mm @ 20mm, f7.1, 1/250 , iso100. RAW</p>

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<p>I have been doing a personal project for a while now on the Docklands of Cork City, Ireland. This area is scheduled for revelopment soon into fancy apartments and retail units. It will be a great shame to loose the working docks so I have been trying to document the area before it goes.<br>

Here is one from this week of a Dock worker, not lookign very busy!<br>

Nikon D80 + 17+55mm @ 24mm, f3.2, 1/320, iso 100<br>

Shot from the hip, just the bottom cropped off.</p>

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<p>Lil Judd - I really like that lensbaby shot, it really keeps drawing your eyes in as you look at it</p>