Nice sunset, Paul. I like the silhouettes of the buildings and the glimpse of the horizon between them, and the subtle range of colors in the sky is great.
This past weekend I took the K10D and my favorite lens (Pentax DA 18-135mm DC) to "the spillway" at Pymatuning State Park, a short drive north of my town. Most of it is open for fishing and boating but part of it is sectioned off by the spillway and used as a hatchery and wildlife protection area.
I took too many photos with a slow shutter speed... I have a lot of shots that would have turned out great but for the blur! I was rusty I guess, and with the dim screen on the K10D I had trouble even noticing that my shots were blurry. But soon I had bumped up the ISO and goosed up the shutter speed and was getting some good shots.
People bring loaves of bread to feed the carp at the spillway (the Park allows this), which the kids never seem to get tired of, and neither did my wife.
This time there were ducks and geese competing for bread as well. Sometimes a seagull would swoop in and grab a piece if the ducks and fish were too slow. The carp were the usual winners... they are fast! Descriptions of the photos follow, please let me know if it is annoying for me to post so many photos at once.
A throng of fish...they basically writhe on top of each other after loaves of bread. Eerie and mesmerizing.
You can see the protected part of the reservoir here. There are never boats out there and it's quite scenic. The sun was behind me so shots like this were easier than I'm used to. I got a couple with this guy, or others like him, looking right into the camera while in flight. Very cool.
This and the next are a couple close ups of the carp doing their fish thing.
The flower is actually my favorite photo from that outing... it just came out so nice, and it was unexpected. I went there to photograph fish, after all!
This last one made us laugh. A duck had a piece of bread on its back, but did not know it. That goose sure noticed and chased the duck all around trying to get the bread! I was losing light at this point and we went home soon after.