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Its quite different from what we usually see here, and I hope you all find it to be an interesting image to work with, and that it stimulates your imaginations. Enjoy! Mark

You have the lenses and camera bodies to do what you want to do. Suggestion: take the bottom 3 lenses and the D700 (or the D300) to your local camera shop (hoping you have one). First tell them you want to buy a remote trigger (bait). Then ask them to show you how to take the picture you want to take using your equipment. Let them actually set it up and show you how to do it, down to the F-stop, Shutter speed, and ISO. I'll bet they won't be able to resist. You'll probably need the trigger but that's cheap. Don't tell them you already have a tri-pod until after they show you using theirs. That 105 is a macro, my guess is they'll use that. Luck!

First thank you all so much. Canon looked better at first glance only superficially because it had that nice flip out display and made me believe it would be easier to transfer images and videos and the settings seemed more intuitive. But again — superficially only. I was dazzled by the newness and the fact that so many bloggers in my “community” use Canons so I figured they couldn’t be too hard to learn at a basic level. The Nikons I have just seen so counterintuitive to me and I can’t see a dang thing at the level of detail I require. I think I just need to get a cable and a monitor so I can view the shots larger since I’m mostly working at a desk or light box, and then I need a few seriously-hand-holding yet short-attention-span tutorials and books.