A few Comox photos

Here are a few photos I took on my last few days of my Vacation. The first one is made from 6 photos that are stitched together. The masts lined up quite nicely!

The second shot is 3 shots stiched together. This photo is from the walkway along Comox Harbour.

Third shot is into the sun along the Courtenay Bird Sanctuary.

All shots were taken with a Sigma 15-30mm f3.5-4.5 EX Aspherical DG DF wide angle lens. It's quite a nice lens and I love the sharpness and colour that the lens seems to produce. It seems like I need to do little post processing to make a decent image. The only big annoyance I've had with it is with sun flare. At certain angles, even when the sun is fully out of frame I still get flare. Sigma replaced the lens with its 10-20mm, but from some reviews I have read the 15-30mm is better overall. It may be out of production, but if you look around you can still find them on ebay and kijiji. For what I paid for it, I think its a great value.

There are Fred-Miranda reviews here:

http://www.fredmiranda.com/reviews/showproduct.php?product=94&sort=7&cat=37&page=1

some nice reviews here and here as well:

http://www.bythom.com/1530lens.htm

and

http://www.ephotozine.com/article/Sigma-15-30mm-f35-45-EX-DG

I also used my 15-30mm for the Rememberance Day photos in my November blog entry and for my night shots Blog on October 13th. The legislature shots are quite nice.