How I carry my digital SLR lens hood

Before, I realized I could do this, I rarely ended up using the lens hood on my digital SLR.

But while I was walking around, I saw a professional photographer who had his hood mounted in reverse on the lens.

I tried it and it worked. Now I can carry the hood with me all the time and use it more often than I used to previously.

Below you can see the 2 ways in which the hood has been mounted on to the lens (the first one is the in use position and the 2nd one is the storage position - which you can see makes it easy to store it in your camera bag)

More info on lens hoods:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lens_hood

http://toothwalker.org/optics/lenshood.html

and this interesting discussion on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/groups/tamron17-50mm/discuss/72157604024209303/