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Food! I Want Food Now!

Well, it's here and, first impression, one sweet lens. Heavier, but actually feels better in the hand than the 55-200. Focus is faster and more accurate. Zoom barrel is stiff; it will probably open up with use and I'd rather that than the other way around. Here's a coupe of very quick shots from...

So I wait all day for the UPS trunk and when it finally arrives and I get my package, it looks like this Luckily, B&H used about 8 feet of bubble wrap and all is well

When I like an image, the image immediately resizes one step larger. If the image is already at max size, it goes smaller by a step. This started just after the last background fiddle.

I don't know what this is, but it kept up a constant shimmy, so this is as close to a sharp shot as I could get

Up a palm

I hate ducks. . . and children

Tiny bubbles

Little checker wings were everywhere, flittering about the passifloras and plumbagos, but I could only catch one, and not well, that actually landed

My first dragonfly -- not great, but it was way out on a dancing reed leaf; I very nearly went down the mud bank trying to get a shot in focus.

The aristilochia gigantea, about 12" wide and 18" tall and its cousin, elegans, about 2" wide and 5" tall

I am informed that I have become something of a slacker while repainting the kitchen, so I declared break and went off to the arb to stretch my legs and eyes.

My lizard friend is making some extra cash as an aphid taxi

I think this is a turkey vulture (never seen one here), but just too far out for my 55-200

Wasp landing

A little early evening sip

The second best sort of roach