Two weekends ago, Keri and I drove to Brevard, NC to visit my grandmother. Brevard has recently become a vacation destination for "leaf lookers" in the fall as it is nestled in a valley in the Appalachian mountains. In addition to getting to see Brevard and Mimi, Keri and I also had just enough time on the way home to go on a 2 hour hike in the DuPont national forest. It's pretty amazing to be able to see 3 very impressive waterfalls in a just a couple of hours. I brought my new (used) camera along with a plan to test it out along with my new (new) 50mm f/1.4. Overall, very happy with the performance of the camera and lens, but still wishing I had a better eye for landascape and night photography. I'll let you judge for yourself (all 4 readers). I think the waterfall pix would have looked better at sunrise, but I'm too in love with sleeping to go see something at the crack of dawn that I can see at the crack of 2pm...