Hi Hils and Sally
Looks like we are starting a camera club!! Over the last seven years I have bought a new camera just before each major holiday - never had time to learn about them properly - but have lovely photos of Oz and NZ, China and Kenya!! I bought my last camera, the one I will use in Churchill, for Kenya and have some lovely animal and landscape shots.
I thought long and hard about getting a full DSLR but decided my brain, eyesight and dexterity were not up to it! I am a Canon girl too! My older, and now standby/spare, is a Canon G12 - doesn't have the massive zoom but takes great shots. My main camera is a Canon Powershot SX50 HS which of course was state of the art when I bought it and has now been superseded! I love them both!!! What sights they have seen :)
My animal holiday crazy friend has a Nikon DSLR which she loves - amazing photos of wildlife, but I notice she has now bought a Canon G15 as well!!
I have lots of photos taken in snow but never of a whitish object against a whitish background! I was going to practice last winter after booking in January, but down here in Sussex we didn't have any snow at all! In the olden days of 35mm film cameras my camera (Canon AV1 SLR) had a special button for snow!
They keep moving the goalposts for the 'Arctic Icons' book - hopefully it will be released before we go!
Sally - Calabria looks lovely - looking for something from Gatwick this time, but you never know!
Hils - you are doing the holiday I would have done if I hadn't done Lake Bled last Christmas. You get a day in Venice which I would have loved, they have put the caves and the coast as one day trip which is much better, and the trip to the ski area at Vogel is wonderful - it was an added excursion for us as some of us (ME!!!!) were desperate for snow. Our sledge ride was a carriage ride round the lake but great fun! On the last day in Bled the sun came out to brilliant blue skies and we could finally see the snow capped mountains all around. I paid for a lake view room and loved it, day and night - views of the lake, the castle and the island - need to have a high floor to get above the (bare) branches of the trees - can't remember the better room numbers - to the left as you look at the lake I think. The view from the small pool bar (top floor) with a balcony area was amazing and the pool was well used by our party (I forgot my cossie).
Looking at the itinerary we could well bump into each other in Italy!
Better stop before our moderators clock off for the weekend!
Julia - Thanks for sorting the email address. :thumbup: