Just got back from a short (3 day) trip to New Orleans, Louisiana last night (Sunday) after a really long day of travelling by both plane and car...whew, I'm beat.

Will be uploading the results of our trekking around the French Quarter as well as a visit to the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas on our last day (which was unfortunately rainy).

The weird thing was, I totally forgot my 18-200mm Tamron lens at home! A week before we left, we did an informal studio photo shoot at my sister-in-law's place to take some promotional shots for my husband's furniture touch-up business and at the time, I changed my camera over to my better quality (Nikon) lenses just in case. So I didn't think anything of it to see a larger lens on my camera before we left on our trip...at a glance, my Nikkor 55-200mm looks a lot like the 18-200mm if you don't look closely enough.

On the one hand, it's too bad since it's so handy to have the range of the 18-200mm without switching lenses. On the plus side, I like to think the pics I took with my Nikon D40 turned out quite crisp thanks to the Nikkor lenses I had on hand (just the 50mm F1.4 and the 55-200mm).

Oh well. Live and learn. The moral of the story: always double-check your camera bag before travelling to make sure you have the right lenses!