My first K30 shots, ever.

I was asked to put some photo's on here after i got the Pentax K30 I am slowly getting used to it, here are some of the picts I took after first getting it





Flooding under Churchfields Road.


a lof of the original doors are gone from these old houses. These date from the 1930's when the houses were built and are the only two left.




Meadow Road where the Teddy Hakell murder happened at no 40

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/articles/2008/10/23/salisbury_murder_myst... for info on the famous case.

1st one's a toughie... Reflected light on highly polished brass isn't easy.

2nd one appears to have a bit of a tungsten-type hue.

3rd one is a bit "heavy" on the red end of the colour spectrum. A bit of PP to tone it down a bit, I think.

4 - That's the one for me, although it might work a bit better in B/W, to make it look a bit more "newspaper feature imagey", in keeping with the events that took place in that street. It might be my dodgy eyesight, but the cars in the pic look a bit out-of-focus.

Well done though!!

Thanks very much, I never thought about putting it in black and white

My grandad knew Teddy Haskell as a kid, no longer alive wish I had known a bit more about him.

Have done the third image in black and white, hope it works

Looks much better in b/w, don't you think??

I particularly like No.3, those doors remind me of the Tardis. Street scene definitely much improved in B+W.

Yeah I like the black and white one, will go back and retake it when there is less cars. There's a book called ghosts of Salisbury which says Meadow Road is gloomy. It's OK now, but once when it was all gas light, I suppose it would have been like that.

The rest of the street has those horrible plastic doors, this house is being renovated, so I hope the doors stay

Agree with the rest on the 3rd shot,the bins are an annoyance but there's something nice and formal, almost abstract, about the composition. I like that sort of thing, especially when the actual subject matter is so mundane.

See if I can get this shot again if the doors are still there.

its the bins that make the picture for me, on the left we have a blue door and a blue bin lid dominating but on the right we have a black door and a black bin dominating.

I don't think there is anything mundane in the subject matter at all, it is a well observed record of our times to say nothing of it being well composed too

Here is the original window that was above the doors. Most of the windows are now plastic rimmed. This is the last ever frame still retaining it's wooden structure. Windows are no longer like this.