Nikon D70s, Tamron 180, Tamron 1.4x
1/60s f3.5 200iso
This little fella greeted me as I entered the woods. he was unusually tame, sitting there while I fired off almost a dozen shots. This is about a half frame crop, basically cropping a portrait out of a landscape. Shot in jpeg and processed in ACR4 then CS3. Pretty sharp considering it was wide open with a teleconverter.

Nikon D70s, Tamron 180, Tamron 1.4x
1/60s f3.5 200iso
Shot a few seconds later in RAW. Processed the same way. Aside from some slight differences in tonality, I find it looking pretty similar to the jpeg shot.

Nikon D70s, Tamron 180, Tamron 1.4x
1/60s f3.5 200iso
Alternate version of the RAW shot ... more subtle coloring. Perhaps more like it really was.

Nikon D70s, Tamron 180, Tamron 1.4x
1/200s f4 200iso
A lovely pine or fir near the beaver pond. Pretty smooth bokeh on the Tamron.

Fujifilm Finepix F11
1/400s f2.8 100iso
A shot of my new Feisol 3471 tripod (bottom section not extended) with Markins M10 ball head (they sent the wrong one), Nikon D70s, Tamron 180, Tamron 1.4x, SB600 flash on Roboframe VH2000 bracket, and Lumiquest Soft Box diffuser. I wish I'd seen an insect or two this day.

Fujifilm Finepix F11
1/320s f5 200iso
Idyllic scene with a woman walking her dog. Lovely spring day. Looking into the meadow where I shoot Dragonflies in summer.

Fujifilm Finepix F11
1/400s f5 200iso
Looking at the meadow from the other end. A quite beautiful place.

Nikon D70s, Tamron 180, Tamron 1.4x
1/500s f4.5 200iso
Spring blossoms abound in the meadow, with fruit trees everywhere. Dappled sublight gave this trees a pretty look. The Tamron is able, with the 1.4x teleconverter, to reach up into the tree and isolate a single blossom.

Nikon D70s, Nikon 300mm F4
1/500s f4 200iso
Switching over to the Nikon 300mm, I was able to experiment with its amazing ability to isolate individual elements even in the woods. A single tree with the glint of a filament of spider web is the subject here.

Nikon D70s, Nikon 300mm F4
1/1250s f4 200iso
At the Wild Bird Center, this goose was sharing a cage with a Mallard, both recovering from some sort of malady. This was shot through the fine wire mesh, which can be seen in shadow on the goose. Stopped down 1/3 stop from wide open, and very sharp.

Nikon D70s, Nikon 300mm F4
1/800s f4 200iso
Harsh contrast and the cage itself play havoc with the capture of its convalescence, but this one turned out nicely anyway.

Nikon D70s, Nikon 300mm F4
1/160s f4 200iso
Also at the Wild Bird Center, about 4 feet from the cage where the sick goose and duck were residing. This scene gave me a serious Normal Rockwell vibe, and the lovely dappled sunlight enhanced by shade white balance really sets it off.

A draganized version of the same shot. Quite stunning at 12x18.

Nikon D70s, Nikon 300 F4
1/5000s f4 200iso
One of the few blooming plants, these daisies were dazzling in the bright noon time sun. This lense is wicked sharp wide open.

Nikon D70s, Nikon 300mm F4
1/4000s f4 200iso
Another pretty yellow plant coming into bloom.

Nikon D70s, Nikon 300mm F4
1/640s f4 200iso
This cute little gull was injured, so he goose-stepped when he walked. Hysterical.

Nikon D70s, Nikon 300mm F4
1/50s f4 200iso
Back to the woods the next week, and this little fellow was sitting on a tree stump. He let me creep closer and closer until I was near the minimum focusing limit. If you look closely, you can see me with the cam and tripod in his eye. The 300 is sharp.

Nikon D70s, Nikon 300mm F4
1/800s f7.1 200iso
FedEx jet flying by.

Same shot ... cropped and enlarged. Decent detail retention from the 300 f4 and D70s.