Boy, was I surprised to find this herd of bison just about 8 miles from home. This appears to be the bull of the herd--the herd itself had a simply awful background so I passed on them. Yes, it was just this hazy--in fact, much, much worse--I worked on this A LOT (they don't call these the Blue Ridge Mountains for nothing--altho' I'm in the foothills). Boy, do I pick the worst days for a day I can take to photograph. Beyond haze--sitting right down on top of us, no sun, high humidity. Yuck. I used a Tiffen 2x Megaplus with my G1-always manual. I sure envy Alpha's zoom. I have a pretty good one, but old, for my regular SLR. They just aren't available for anything but the digital SLRs unfortunately. My camera zooms to 3x and this gave me 6x--still pretty far away, but I have high resolution, so I could crop reasonably. Nothing special about the photo except it was neat to find these critters right near us. Diane