Smoke

Was holding off, for months, on the purchase of a Nikon speedlight/flash/strobe expecting the SB-700 to be announced. Finally ran out of patience and got the SB-600. Its a good addition to the D5000, the cactus V2s remote flash trigger completes it. The above photographs are with all put in use, where the strobe (fired remotely) illuminated the smoke from an incense stick.

A birds meal

A collage seemed the best way for presenting these shots. 

Birds with coolers

They came in flocks for the fruits and water. They looked cool and seemed to have coolers on them 'naturally'.

Beach guards

There were lots of them at the Galveston beach. There was also this lone seagull sitting on the 'no swimming' sign, making sure humans were not swimming (seagulls can, as they are in the background :) ). As I prepared to photograph it there was this next one! Aahh my camera was set to single shot mode (not continuous), anyway captured as fast as I could. Here are the pictures of change of guard duty.