I've been taking full advantage of my shiny new camera over the past week or so. So far, it's been around the west end, into work and up to Loch Lomond. Apart from changing lenses (which is something of a hassle when you're on the move), it's absolutely perfect. And in fairness, I could have got around the lens problem if I'd fancied spending £550 extra on an all-in-one lens, which I didn't, oddly.

Anyway, seeing as I'm stuck waiting for flooring to come (still), here is some of the photographic evidence that I haven't just been sitting in the house...

Pretty much the first proper image I managed to take this was basically an experiment in night-shooting without using the simple auto-mode (which, when shooting in the city, makes the sky orange. I mean, the sky is orange, but still). Stood up at Partickhill and aimed it at Glasgow Harbour. I took another one which was zoomed in - you could pretty much make out individual rooms, which was a tad scary given that I was at least a mile away.

A west end stalwart, Ashton Lane. We didn't actually end up in any of these pubs as they were either a/ mobbed or b/ rubbish, but it still looks nice in a picture. This one was just done on auto mode, as were most of the others as it made pretty much as good a job was possible.

Apologies to whoever owns the B&B at Balmaha and was confused by the randoms standing outside taking pictures of their windows, and windowboxes. Actually, when I write that, I'm impressed the police didn't turn up.

On the beach on the loch shore, there is this. It looks nice.

The sun finally came out as we were almost about to leave, so I got some reflection-type pics. They're not perfect, but they're pretty good, and better than the ones I took when the water was magically flowing uphill owing to my inability to hold the camera level.

I rather like this, actually, These were on a not insubstantial tree above the path. Thanks to the magic of zoom, they might as well have been on the ground...

...Much like this, erm, was actually. I want to figure out how to take a picture in the rain so you can see the individual drops; I haven't figured out how fast the shutter speed needs to be and how to make it work without the whole picture going black yet.

So yes, that's my adventures so far. I kinda hoped that in the time it took me to process the pics and type this, Mr B&Q would have turned up with my floor, but sadly no luck yet. Oh well.

Oh, I've yet to figure out how to colour-correct or anything in Photoshop (or indeed why I'd want or need to) so these are all exactly as they were taken, just resized and cropped a bit (especially in the case of the Ashton Lane one, as there were big ugly bins in the right of the frame which I failed to notice at the time).