Tom Dart, See MGD's gallery a post called "the picture not taken". Wonder where MGD is these days anyway? I can't say I have ever been where I didn't belong even though I lug around that lens with the little canon ae1 attached to it! ;) But I have been so engrossed before that I almost fell off the dock into the water once! :-S So now I pay attention when I am somewhere that I could fall off of a cliff or go for an unplanned swim. It really is easy to be so engrossed in getting the perfect shot, that you forget your surroundings. Brenda :)