200mm if definitely too short for wildlife in Alaska.
If I remember correctly, some woman got off a bus behind us and started walking up to the bear (compact camera in hand). When the rangers shouted at her to get back on the bus she said that she wanted to get a close up. Some people……
I wouldn’t skimp on the photographer as his/her work will be a lasting record of the day.
If I was getting married (and I won’t be anytime soon unless Jenifer Aniston suddenly becomes available and is looking for a balding thirty something year old Irish guy) I would use this photographer (and he has reasonable prices) – http://www.capturephotography.ie/index.html
Whoever you choose, make sure that you get to see a portfolio of their work and that it is the style you require.
I’m from about 2 miles up the road from Lacken Strand.
Nice set. It looks like you walked both sides of the oval. If you’re ever over that direction again take a trip along the North Coast Road from Ballycastle to Belmullet. Some fantastic scenery along the way.
Gaylord (if that is your real name) you’re playing right into the hands of the Government and IBEC. The issue is not private vs public employees. Its private and public employees vs the Govemnment, their banker and builder friends who caused the mess in the first place.
Many of the 350,000 public sector employees have partners and familiy members in the public sector who have lost jobs and now have to support them.
For the record, the Civil Servants on strike today have an average salary of about €28,000 gross (not €50,000 as stated elsewhere in this thread). Many of these are work sharers on salaries of about €16,000 gross (these are formerly fulltime workers but now part time because they have families to look after) and yes, for some of these people its their only income as their partners have been laid off and they cannot go back to being full time employees.
I’ve fixed the website address to PI in the help screen and also a small bug in the effective focal length (it wasn’t formatted to two decimal places).