Thanks so much everyone for the kindest comments. I had a photographic/musical ball with Humayun this weekend. A long time coming, but as Humayun says - the planets lined up. LOL. Thank
YOU, good friend. Your knowledge and ability, and the willingness to impart it in others, is quite incredible. I also thank you for the continued loan of your 200mm F2.8 L until I manage either one of these or a 70-200 2.8L with stability down the road a little. I promise to take great care of it.
Humayun absolutely convinced me this weekend to drop Aperture and Lightroom for DPP. What a great piece of software that's so completely in tune with the Canon hardware it is designed to implicitly work with. Simply wonderful, and it justifies having the 5D Mk-II.
While I'm very, very happy with some of these 8 shots, I still have nearly 700 more to really go through from this weekend. I'll see if I can post some up soon.
Hopefully Humayun will post some of his from the weekend right here along side. They are going to be spectacular!