Sonny,

Nice pictures! I especially like the second one.

I did get the lens from Dell during their sale last week, it's backordered and supposedly ships on the 8th. The also had the 70-200 f4 on sale for ~$500. I was trying to decided between the two and ultimately concluded that the 17-40 would get a lot more use since with a 1.6x crop factor the 70-200 provides A LOT of zoom and is fairly limiting in terms of field of view.

Now I'm somewhat questioning if I need a top level lens like the 17-40, but I figure I'll try it out and can always return it if I don't see enough of a quality increase over my stock lens to make it financially worthwhile.

Thanks again for the pictures.

- Matt