I love your photos

I have the same camera, with a few different lenses and I know what you mean, it's extremely frustrating when you can see a awesome shot and the camera decides it doesn't want to co-operate

but the camera takes beautiful photos when it wants to co-operate

It's more the fact that it comes with so many useless settings (such as A, P, S, Portrait, Macro, etc), most photographers will never take their camera off manual (M), and semi pro cameras don't even have all those other settings. But, the camera also makes it difficult to find the and activate the necessary modes, such as continuous shooting, and it doesn't seem to have focus tracking on Liveview. I'm starting to lean towards the D700, I like the D800 but 36mp is too big!!