Thanks all for your comments, i tried but couldn't get the witch to show herself well enough, could see her, but just not good enough.
Jim, the lens has a UD element, so a liitle better than the economic Canon lenses, but still way off from the "L" 'series
Humayun, RHG, means Real Hard Go
a bit of slang i picked up somewhere.
Thanks again for all the nice comments.