nice new toy! I've always been intrigued by fish-eyes, but never enough to seriously consider buying one. Saying that, I'm not a pro photographer and for me to consider dropping that much money on a lens I'd rarely use would be rather silly :)

As for the shot itself... nice b&w toning!

Ash: I've got a job next month that needs a fisheye. I already have the circular 8mm Peleng, but the quality isn't great, so thought I'd get hold of this one, and so far I'm impressed with it. I'll try and post some more shots over the next couple of days (assuming I find time).

Dave was it a Canon or a Sigma, now you see I'm seriously jealous mate... You've got my sky again in this shot. And you just bought the lens I want, and you've recetnyl got the Camera body I want..... lifes so unfair....... Craig

hmmm ... i think i see your shadow XD

This is by far one of the better fish eye shots I have seen. For me, fish-eye shots get old really fast, falling into a cliche, but you did a very good job of keeping the feel of Chromasia even with a extremely distorted style.

Fab sky and what fun with yet another new lens!!

How do you get your photos so clean and crisp? :| :)

Great shot this. Love the wide angle.

I'll be interested to see and hear how get on with this lens outside of the special requirement for which it's been purchased. I have the Nikon 10.5mm and it's a lovely lens, but I can rarely find a situation where I'm happy with the result beyond it's 'fun factor'.

There have been one or two exceptions though.

I would have been tempted to ping a bit of flash in to even up the exposure on the wood and loose your shadow, but I like the composition and mono processing very much.

Very nice details et redner for this shot !

Fisheye is cool. Great texture and sky as usual!

How did you always get such great, dramatic clouds? Love them.

If I had a 'fish eye' I'd being playing loads with it. I sort of feel that this isn't the best theme for such a lens. I think it works best encapsulating an enclosed space ie building interior, stadium etc etc ... But possibly I'm to conventional and narrow in my thinking!!!!. Anyway, that apart, it's an intriguing image ...That bolt is pushing out through my screen. The usual positive comments directed at clouds and tones apply.

Craig: it's the Canon one.

doreen: yes, I'm afraid that is my shadow. Due to one thing and another I only had ten minutes of shooting time and this was the best I could manage.

Josef: I think that part of it is to do with being careful about how I sharpen the images you see here. I use smart sharpen, which generally seems to do a better job than the other alternatives.

Roy: I've got some ideas about how to use this lens and will post anything decent here.

NigelC: yep, good idea, but I didn't have it with me.

Erin: we often have great skies. I don't know much about the weather (as a topic) but I think it's because we're on the west coast and get interesting weather fronts coming in from the Atlantic.

Richard: yes, they work well in interiors, but I do have some other ideas ;-)