As a starting post I think it’s worthy to show the tools used to create the images you see. Some of the photos shown in the galleries were taken with older equipment, but what I’m using nowadays is as follows:
Canon 450D (Xsi)
Canon 18-55mm 5.6 IS
Canon 50mm 1.8
Canon 70-300mm 5.6 IS
Canon FD 300mm 2.8
Soligor 28-35mm
Canon Powershot G9
The Canon FD had it’s mount adapted to EOS but of course everything is maintained manual. The Soligor 28-35 is used for high magnification macros with a reversal ring (which is probably ground to explore on a post of it’s own), and I also use a bunch of filters, extension tubes, and Kenko 1.4x teleconverter sitting always on the 70-300. My two flashes also not shown in the above picture are a Nissin Di466 and a manual CY-20. The Canon Powershot G9 was aquired second hand very recenty and it will be a backup camera, as often with the DSLR oportunities are missed due the time required to change lenses for different kinds subjects, lesson learned when stumbling across a deer few meters away, walking with a reversed lens mounted on camera.
WTF. A FD 300mm 2.8, Fluorite? *___*