I've been on a short daytrip with two friends.. I've been at this place once before with the same guys.. Last time we decended from a height at a totally crazy place..
This time we took the trip as it's "meant to be"..

The pictures are not the peak of my abilities.. I just picked a few I liked




I actually never tried the bokeh out with my 18-105 VR lens before, it's ok I guess.. here's a f/9 shot...



ascending.. excuse the angle, but I'll keep doing this until I have something a bit more wide



Just a little part of the view on the way up.. Is it only me who get wintersport associations in those snow-shots including a lens flare?



Quickie break



At the peak
This is our turning point, from here on the sun will be going down real quick..



As I wrote, the sun is on it's way down.. This scenery was quite beautiful



When we were below those rocks we could see all the icicles! They were beautiful
Due to bad/uninteresting lightning we had to do our best.. It was quite slippery but a friend climbed up as far as he could to hold a flash from the side..
At least it was better then the ambient light



At the bottom there was a watercourse, it was covered all the way over with ice.. At a few spots you could see the ice cold water... Pretty cool..


I enjoyed the day really much.. Such days as this one makes me even more sure that I should get a real wide angle lens

I just thought I'd make a thread in here.. Long time since I last did so...

e: topic title should be national park

This post was edited by hestJaevel on Jan 2 2011 03:08pm

wow those were with an 18-105? very nice
what camera are you using?

Yes they were, thank you

nikon d7000

ahh, the camera i want to get, probably in about a month or two, still sold out mostly everywhere and people be marking up the price like crazy

heard good things about it
do you like it?
what were you shooting before?
I am thinking upgrading both my D90's in a few months, thinking of 1x D7000 and 1x D700

i read that a lot of users had hot pixels on their d7000, but nikon had released a firmware update for the camera that fixes the issue

Yeah I like it
I was shooting with a nikon d3000, and needless to say.. This camera is on a different level




I had no problems with this.
And if you get that problem and the firmware update doesn't fix it... Return the camera

that is quite a big upgrade
it should hav good high ISO performance (well so i hear), let me know what you think once u hav tried it out some more

This post was edited by jayandnix on Jan 6 2011 06:53am

Well I've tried it for 6 weeks now, and I'm happy with the iso performance



That image was shot at iso 3200, no noise reduction has been done.. I'm able to shoot with lenses I'd never think about using when the light is a bit from perfect.
But to be honest, I'd concider getting a d300 instead, as the iso performance is just a part of what a good camera should have. The bigger grip and the bigger buffer would
be great advantages over d7000!

I really dislike the buffer with raw (13 images iirc), and the fact that jpeg high only can buffer up 15 images doesn't help at all..

Except from that, I'm a happy camera owner

thanks
i will get a D700 as well
would love the D3s and D3x, but i am being realistic and getting D700 and D7000