What I was doing while the Euro meet was on...

I missed the excellent Euro meet, but I don't mind because I was in Washington (State, non D.C.) for three weeks vacation at the time. I thought I'd share some of the photos I took while I was there:

http://www.pbase.com/andynormancx/washington_2003

Washington sure is a beautiful (and big) place.

P.S. for those who are interested, I added an EF 17-40mm f/4.0 and EF 75-300 IS to my 10D and EF 24-85mm while I was there. I love my new lenses...

Great shots!!! I have to admit, my favorite is the Zen Stones.

Damn, that's not even one of my shots. My wife took that one...

...try again

...Salmonberry??? (What can I say? I like still-life photos...)

...Salmonberry??? (What can I say? I like still-life photos...)

That was my guess at what it was, don't know much about US flora. Looks like I was right though:

http://images.google.com/images?q=Salmon+berry

I'm a sucker for still life too. I can't claim to have taken any photos I really love with this camera yet. But I've only had it a couple of months and it is my first SLR, so I'm still learning.

My wife has used an SLR for years. She only vaguely knows how to use the 10D though, yet manages to take some wonderful shots with it. Which just goes to show that taking good photos has little to do with technical mastery of the equipement.

It can allow you to take shots you might otherwise have missed, though.

Yeah, especially as she still doesn't know how to change the ISO speed on it and doesn't yet understand that you need to wait a second or so before the image stabilization kicks in on the 300mm lens...

Ditto. My next favourite is the Rainforest, though...

Edit: And there were several other really good shots in the page that takes a really really long time to load...