There was no kites around

However spotted this footprint with 3 toes, perhaps species that left it was wuh wuh paradiso

I'll say we have monsters in here at night, look real monster it is, about to land on your face, horrifying beings:

Moving up, literally:

A couple of randoms from Holiday snaps:

Steve, you have quite tall ladders

Nice dragonflies (or is that damselfly?) there too, did you manage to get very close or do you have some glass which kind of I should buy?

Too bad here dragonflies are extremely hard to spot these days, I remember from my childhood one huge, it had wingspan size of wheel from my father's mk1 Escort estate. It can be that image in my memory is not 100% correct, however it was several times larger than those I rarely see today.

I believe that what I see as a kid was this one:
http://koti.welho.com/tlaurins/phonesco ... rentoi.htm

WOW steve amazing shots, what camera are you using and did you use photoshop?

Steve's got the same lens as me after he got jelous Thing is he's had it a lot less time and is much better than me with it already

Canon 75-300, awesomely cheap lens, I paid £90 delivered, Steve got the USM version.

digital slr is the way to go now......the quality

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For my D40 it would be around £400 from such lens and it still get soft at 300mm, that is unfair

Yep as Chris said... images are straight off the camera with no adjustmenst made. For the price the 75-300 lens is awesome, but it's not that sharp and only any good in bright light... still, I wouldnt've got anywhere near planes without it!

Mmm, but I wonder how close I could have got those planes in my shots as those are taken with 55mm

I have now found 70-300mm f/4,0-5,6 APO DG lens from Sigma at £157, but I don't know if it is any good?

Second option would be Sigma 55-200mm f/4-5.6 DC HSM that would be only 2/3 of price above, do I need that last 100mm for great shots at distance?

Feels quite difficult to find real good tests from those

Depends what you take Jani, I find for motorsport stuff I need the last 100, as you can't get that close to the track all the time.

Steve, have you found the lens is soft, or just read that from reviews? I've often heard it said, but I've not really noticed it.

Well, I use quite rarely my tripod, so it could be that getting sharp shots with 300mm is tad difficult without it? Maybe I try that smaller lense first and see how it goes

I shoot the 300 handheld, you can't unless you are outside though. It's an f/4-5.6, so and each gradual marked on the lens is equivalent to a "stop" too. Not sure about the d40, but my 20d changes shutter and aperture in 1/3rd stops, so each gradual on the lens is equiv to loosing 3 notches of shutter or aperture. Wide aperture tele's are silly priced though, so you learn to live with it

Doesn't matter for outside shots like Steve posted, but for anything lowlight, you need the tripod.