Really like the first kookaburra shot. Great detail. If anyone with a reasonable clue is interested, I have a few shots from a recent trip to one of our national parks at
http://itshare.org.au/ngarkat/ I am just using a canon a85 (mainly on the auto setting as I tend to have little time to make adjustments). I would love to learn to use the camera properly if anyone has some photography or even photo manipulation hints. There are quite a few pics there of a fire a couple of weeks ago. Things to think about are that they are large uncropped, thumbnailed jpegs, and they on one of my home computers on adsl (so be gentle if you are getting multiples)
cheers
shaun