My Gear:
After ages of making photos with Canon I decided in 2003 to switch to Nikon. Reason: the feel of a D70 was much better then the 300D at that time. During the last years the biggest problem was to create a new collection of nice lenses. Money isn't coming from trees so it was a nice investment.
I prefer a minimum aperture of 2.8 and a filter size of 77mm. That makes filters exchangeable and allows me to shoot in not to good light-conditions. I do not necessarily want Nikkor lenses, they are expensive but the extra quality is not worth it for me. I shoot with a consumer-(D70) and a prosumer(D100) body, so the true professional Nikkor lenses would be a bit unreal. At this moment I have 28mm to 200mm in f2.8, 12mm to 24mm in f4 as well as 300mm.

An overview of what I use at the moment:

Nikon D70
My first Digital SLR. A Great camera, superb value for money. Good image quality and enough features to spoil creativity.

Nikon D100
My first SemiPro SLR and one of the first on the Digital market. It may be old but still has superb RAW-image quality.

Sigma EX 70-200 f2.8
Also a 2.8 aperture on my telezoom lens. I love this one for shooting people/portrait. Ideal to keep the subject clear from the background. Excellent image quality.

Nikon MB100
A must to use under my D100. Gives absolute better feel when shooting portrait and better stability when using the heavier lenses.

Tokina 12-24 f4
Excellent value for money this little beauty. For this price and quality .. why buy another! ultra-wide-angle-zoomlens?

Nikon SB800
Maybe the best flash on the market today. Glad it fits my Nikons :) Allows full creativity, including remote flashing.

Nikon SB80DX
The model before the SB800 came. combines superb with my D100 and combines with the SB800 in remote multiflash settings.

Nikkor 300 f4
My favorite (prime)lens. I often use it with the 1.4 TC to make it a great 420mm at f5.6.
Superb for bird-photography, the image quality is Superb while the price is still acceptable.

Nikkor 1.4 TC II
The best tele converter on the market if you ask me. You won't loose visible quality when using this on the Nikkor primes, but will gain more mm's.

Other equipment:
Besides body and lenses there is some other equipment needed.
- For instance a Monopod and Tripod. The tripod is needed for low-light photo's like nightshots but also very useful with for instance Macro. A Monopod is useful in the field with longer tele-lenses or with sports-photography. My pods come from Manfrotto as well as one pan-tilt head. My other head is the Magicball from Novoflex, a great item.
- Most of my filters come from B+W. All lenses have a UV-Protection filter on it to protect it from scratches, after all, replacing a filter is cheaper then replacing a lens. Beside those filters I have a Skylight filter, a circular Polarizer and a set of Cokin ND filters.
- I carry my cams with the Loopstrap Pro from Op/Tech USA, great neck-straps they are. Because of their construction they are able to reduce the camera/lens weight by 50%. Very helpful in the field and very comfortable. Also the grip on the shoulder is great.
- The CF-cards I use for storage come from Lexar (40x) and the ProII from Apacer (100x). On Multi-day shoots I use a portable storage device as well, The 40 Gig storage in the SmartDisk FlashTrax give me plenty of space to have a 3 weeks holiday. It comes with a nice build-in screen to have a first preview in the field.
- To carry it al around I use a photo backpack from Samsonite. It looks like a regular backpack which is good against "sticky fingers"
- Then there is other stuff like handmade rice-bags to use for stability (I lay the cam on it with bird-watching) and some handmade camouflage lens-covers.

Manufacturers
For those who are interested in more information about the gear I use, please feel free to visit the manufacturers websites.