I turned 55 today and my wife suggested that today we could do whatever I wanted to do. I suggested that we go to a new camera store in our area that I had not been to yet. That might not have been a good decision. I was really frustrated with an ongoing problem on my Sony a230. I had been thinking about upgrading anyway for quite a while now. After talking to the sales person for about a half an hour and being able to play with all the nice things he had, I was beginning to fall in love with the Nikon D7000. The camera came as a kit with the 18-300 lens. I asked him if he had a 28-300 lens since I had read many good things about this lens and had heard some of you guys say nice things about this lens. When the sales person said that I could exchange the kit lens with the 28-300 and that he would give me two hundred Dollars off the price of the lens alone if I bought it with a camera, I was pretty much hooked. So I bought the camera with the 28-300 FX lens. Now I found out that I really have a lot to learn. This is one of the first shots I took with the camera. I'm very happy; but also a bit overwhelmed by the complexity compared to my Sony.