Wonderful color and clarity. I just got a Sony a7r. Mirrorless is like giving up your RV for a sports car.

Fantastic picture! Though I think you'll be doing more that just a few days with this one!

I understand that. Almost all of my pics outside the garden have to be taken one-handed on Programme setting. No messing about, point it in the right direction and hold it still. And hope the dog leads don't pull me over in mid shot.

seen so many trees that refuse to give up. I think it can be taken as a lesson by all

It looks wonderful to me, hope you enjoy using your new camera. xx

I love your old stump it has so much character, maybe just a trim.lol. I hope you enjoy playing with your new camera it is amazing the results you can get without the big lens. 😀

Nice detail & clarity. Good luck with your new camera, Bill, though I've always believed that a photographer's eye is more important than the camera (at least once you've reached a minimum threshold of quality) & you definitely have that eye.

As it happens, I just ordered a new camera myself (it's in transit in the mail & should be here next week). As in the past, I continue to resist cameras with interchangeable lenses & am going to stick with the Panasonic Lumix FZ line, but am moving up to the FZ1000, which has a larger (1") sensor than my current model, as well as somewhat better low light performance & few other upgrades...

Congratulation on your new camera... Nice picture... Aloha

This is a nice picture Bill, to me it shows how lush- and damp- your area is. Yesterday we had our 23rd day of 110 F or more, and no rain in sight. As to your new camera I find it interesting that you mention weight. I bought my second Canon SLR about 5 years ago, the first one I bought in 2004. In 2008 I bought a zoom 150-500 mm with the idea of using it for wildlife photography after I came back from Patagonia. Yet I have never used this lens and very seldom use the SLR at all. I have a number of small cameras, which are much easier to carry and the picture quality is almost a good. I find myself using my I Phone more and more often. The pictures are as good as the other camera pictures, often better.

I have never looked at the instructions booklet that came with my Canon SLR, and don't know most of the functions. I realized that when I first got interested in photography and bought my first Nikon F1 SLR in 1966 in Bangkok, and added lenses up to 300 mm and filters, and close-up equipment, photography was more of a challenge to me. Knowing about apertures and shutter speeds, setting those manually to create certain effects, using a light meter for background lighting, was a real challenge. Nowadays point and shoot is simple. I guess I am loosing interest. I still plan to go South Africa, but I wont bring the 500 mm lens, just the 300 mm, if that. With all the restrictions on flights now, and having to carry all the equipment is no longer fun..

This is so lush and beautiful, Bill! A lovely photo!

Yeah, after using a Digital Rebel for several years, it was quite a difference when I picked up my 6D the first time! It's about the same size and weight as the 5D, but I love it!

Looks like you and the new camera are going to be good friends! Good to see a post from you, my friend!

What a fabulous place and this picture is truly beautiful... Fantastic colors also !!!

Enjoy the new camera Bill. Stunning capture Bill. God bless.

Light is goooood! And I wish I had that at airshows (with lens, its an arm aching weight for several hours), the photos do get more and more 'shaky' as it goes on.. Looks good to me mate, the tree and the photo.. lol I am hoping to get a better lens soon (hopes!), yeah right! Stay good guys. Rob

In lieu of your trusty Canon 5D Mark, you did this with a less advertised Fuji X-Pro? Marvelous! I think this may be the first photo I've ever seen of anything snapped with a Fuji. In any case, the rich greens and deep contrasts inherent in the foliage are top notch.

fine capture

Ok, you answered my question about the stump---I forgot what you'd written, before that shot. (Ie, what you wrote here.) This may have been just a 'try' with your new camera, but the shot is lush, full, deep and mysterious. The center stump, with its massive growth (I had no idea it was this overgrown), is a big fairytale stump, almost with a head of hair, or in the shape of a mushroom creature, who crawls, talks and casts spells. The beautiful red wooden structure behind is out of a fairytale farm (love that green trim). And the greenery around is also thick and beautiful, and filled with fringe-y ferns. The massing is intense, and your shadow is equally intense, making a big coagulation of a shot, and I think it's glorious. I could get lost in there, even it it's not that big an area. It feels big in this shot.

Congratulations on your new camera, you've done beautiful work with it, and I'm happy you got rid of the burden of the old Canon. I was going to buy the newer version of the Mk III, but I have had too much to do to make it worth the effort. I just won't use it now. (Writing has taken over too.) (And after buying a condo, 12 grand for a camera and lenses is much harder to justify.) But I'm glad you got a camera with real quality and yet without all that weight. You've taken to it beautifully; and if it's given you impetus to shoot, then it's great. A wonderful lush enchanted shot, not just an "experiment". I love the way your pic looks.