Originally Posted by
AngryScientist
what camera are you using for these great photos?
I use a little Panasonic Lumix TZ5 (nothing little about the name). It's a digicam with a quite wide to very long lens.
Most digicams are missing the long telephoto. (The telephoto lets me keep foreground stuff - cyclists, dogs, buildings - small, while pulling in the background, like a mountain or skyscraper).