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Light glorifies everything. It transforms and ennobles the most commonplace and ordinary subjects. The object is nothing, light is everything."
... Leonard Missonne

I gave up taking pictures using film a long time ago. Digital is much more to my liking so I have obviously been waiting all these years for it to be invented.
Looking through the many outstanding pictures posted by Flickr members, I can but admire and hope to learn from the inspiration of those who do the unexpected and bring it off as well as those who do more conventional things with great craftmanship.
As a keen walker I naturally gravitate towards landscape photography and I pass so many of our fine parish churches that I also try to do justice to them including the interiors. I am starting to get to grips with flower and macro photography. I hope anyone who stumbles across my pictures will find some enjoyment in them and I continue to be surprised by how many do manage to stumble and enjoy.
I try and strike a balance between striving for the masterpieces that are never going to come and being content with the merely routine. I will gently add more pictures, deleting the odd less good one here, adding a better one there and arriving at a nicely matched set of decent pictures for people to dip into as they wish.
I have found a great deal of benefit from groups where you are asked to comment in depth on other pictures and it is always a pleasure if you are able to help someone with a comment or suggestion. I have also been very fortunate in coming into 'electronic' contact with photographers who have gone out of their way to help and encourage.
I much appreciate comments and favouriting but find that the admin. involved in accepting invitations to post to and join groups I do not belong to already is becoming a little too much so I shall probably have to decline. I have already removed myself from some groups and don't want the list to start rising again. I hope everybody will understand.

Customer service?

First a brief explanation of consumer law as it applies in the UK. When you buy something your contract is with the dealer and they are responsible for dealing with any fault. This may include replacement, a refund or a repair. Any repair must be carried out within a reasonable time and without causing you significant inconvenience and you will be entitled to compensation if this is not the case. There are grey areas and quite what you are entitled to and it what circumstances would have to be tested in court in the last resort.
The camera was purchased in mid September 2009 and after a couple of weeks, I noticed a small but significant fault with some images. It was difficult to spot and after some further investigation, I took it back after having had it for three weeks. Advice received from www.consumerdirect.gov.uk indicated that by then I would probably be deemed to have ‘accepted’ the goods which tends to rule out direct replacement or refund. Whether the difficulty of spotting it would be taken into account I cannot tell. It was sent off for repair and took just over 6 weeks, including some time consulting head office in Japan because the UK agents couldn’t work out what was wrong with it.
No gesture of compensation was offered on the camera’s return although I was an established customer.
I cannot offer an opinion whether Park Cameras of Burgess Hill or Pentax UK (it was a K-7 body) deprived me of any legal entitlements but doubtless anyone reading this will be able to decide how satisfied they would be if it happened to them and whether either company would continue to get their business. I should also add that I attempted to contact Pentax UK twice using the contact form on their Website and received no response.
As an edit to the above information on alleged 'customer service'; when upgrading to a Sony A900 I initially kept all the Pentax gear but finally, once I had all the Sony fit lenses in place, I sold all the Pentax gear except for the Tamron 90mm macro lens and bought a Pentax K-5 body for it. This was entirely on the basis of it being fitted with the new Sony 16MP sensor which has transformed it from the very similar K-7. My macro lens for the Sony is the superb Zeiss 100mm and the reason for keeping the Tamron is that it goes closer than the Zeiss and delivers excellent results that I otherwise might miss.