Wow went back through this thread and there are some pretty amazing shots and impressive work. My wife and I are very novice users when it domes to this camera stuff. We are still working on our lens collection, bur for now we only have 35mm f/1.8, 18-55mm VR, and a 55-200mm VR. For most of our shots, just the kids playing in the yard or indoor pictures, we use the 35mm most often. Unfortunately, we recently started having some issues with our Nikon D5000, the camera will not turn on the lcd, you can trigger the shutter, but no image is captured, I think its mostly humidity related, because we shipped the camera over to a friend of ours in another state and he kept it and used it for 3 months with no issues at all. He shipped it back and the camera started acting up immediately when we got it back in Florida. Since we are novice users, we really struggled with the decision on which camera to purchase to replace it, D610, D7100, even looked at something cheaper like the D5300. So we opted for the D7100 this week, paid $1096 at Adorama for body only and decided to spend the money we saved by not jumping up to the D610 on some good optics to add to our lens collection. But now we are struggling with next lens choice to make, like I said the 35mm stays on the camera the most as it fits most of our everyday stuff, but we would like to start shooting some good landscape images and outdoor scenes.
