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In all honesty ...
"want" : to not have to upgrade in the near future, so I'm willing to pay a little more now
"want" : to take clean crisp pictures w/o worrying that the glass I have on the camera...

Alrighty -

Here's what's sitting in my 17th Street cart, waiting for "Check out" :

Fuji FinePIx S5 body - $1899
Sigma AF 70-200mm F2.8 EX DG APO Macro HSM - $849
Nikon AF 50mm F1.8 - $113...

LOL
just what I needed ... I'll keep poking around instead of going with the package deals off eBay
Thanks!

I'm getting ready to buy the Fuji Finepix S5, basically sight unseen, off eBay - and there are 3 different sellers with 3 different lens packages (and, you guessed it, 3 different prices) :

S5 +...

Pinwheel (really big one) at rest - and in motion

These are in the "In Motion" thread too
took these last night

Took these last month ... couple of variations altering the saturation levels and such using Adobe Lightroom

Tinkerbell weathervane atop the castle at EuroDisney

Dargonfly items from the Deco display at the Musée d'Orsay in Jan

This is a 400 yr old oak behind the post office in Cedar Park, TX. Every year they wrap it in kabillions of lights, and last year there was even a yule log that was kept burning in a pit dug in the...

Defunct Broadwing, Austin TX - now Level (3)
Moon was setting and caught sunrise in the glass

I love fire, but it's really hard to shoot :)

This is Bébé ... his name has been changed to protect his identity ;)
Actually, he belonged to the building concierge and I never knew his real name, but he would come visit from his place on the...

More from around Austin

Couple of weeks ago - sunrise
Loop 360 look out - Austin TX

As with most of these, this was an accident
The camera was on a night scene setting and the shutter stays open longer. I accidentally rotated the camera before the shutter closed but all it seems...

Collective Soul at the JB and Sandy Beach Party last year (Austin TX)
combination of them and me moving :)

Flag out front of work during storms last night

Down by Laguna Gloria - Austin, TX

Point Reyes National Park (north of San Francisco)

The stairs down to the actual light house are the equivalent of a 30 story climb

St-Martin-de-Ré on the Île-de-Ré, 2004

Beautiful!
Here's mine (sepia, obviously)

Peahen to go with the georgeous peacock above

In and around Austin TX
except last two which are N. Califiornia - the first at the Point Reyes and the other somewhere along Hwy 1 above San Francisco

This is actually me in motion :)
Thinking about using it as a self portrait called "the artist - leaving"