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I now have what I believe is the most expensive glass I have for my camera in terms of cost per unit weight of glass (I haven't weighed all my lenses). The past few times I've gone waterfall photography shooting I've kicked myself for not bringing my neutral density filters.  I have a 1 stop, 2 stop, and 3 stop 4" rectangular filter.  They are good, but kind of clumsy at times. I am familiar with the trick of stacking two polarizing filters on top of each other to use that as a variable neutral density, but the mechanical vignetting gets a bit much on several of my lenses. Singh-Ray came out with the combination I've been waiting for.  A "

I'm back from my trip.  The thing I most realized is that I want to spend much more time than two or three nights at the places I went.  I could spend a day at Cannon Beach, but only spent a few minutes.  And a day is no where near enough time for Yellowstone.  A drive through is not enough for the Teatons.  Etc... All this means, I'll go back some day. The complete trip for most of what the route was is http://tinyurl.com/528y6f .  The stories are in the individual entires under "photoblog" at http://www.shagiephoto.com/ Deviations are forthcoming - just a matter of selecting the right ones.

I've taken my fall vacation a bit early this year and have been on the road for the past week.  Much of the time, I've been staying in parks and camping in a tent, though occasionally a cabin. I don't always have network access so I've been using iWeb on my mac to work offline and then publish when I do have a net connection. If you want to follow along, it is www.shagiephoto.com. I'll get around to posting select photos from what I take there on DA once I have time to sit down with them and do more than just toss them together.