Pictures through glass

From the Harbour Centre, Vancouver:















Through the car window, northwest of Vancouver:

Aha. Now we know where Lilly's comp shot was taken

I hadn't seen that. Much more interesting than my shot!

Well spotted Chris, correct - I wondered if anyone would guess, expected it to be one of the BC tribe It was taken from the Lookout Building.
Just love Vancouver, thanks for sharing your pics Iceblinker, keep them coming.

Thanks Lily. I enjoyed Vancouver very much too. I was there while visting my brother and sister-in-law who emigrated from the UK to Maple Ridge last year.

I'd be interested in comments on the sharpness of my pics above. Do they look too soft?

Generally I deliberately keep the amount of sharpening minimal as I like the natural look and don't like the cardboard-cutouty look of over-sharpened photos. But have I gone under-the-bottom, so to speak? Do you think I should apply at least a bit more sharpening? (I use Silkypix, and mostly RAW*).

Also I'm aware that the pictures look dark compared to many other people's here. I might do something about that some time.

* bottom picture here is JPG, rest RAW.

Theye only too dark if there are no/very few highlights
I would say they were fine - theres no point in trying to make an overcast sky look like one big blown out highlight anyway.

The last, although dark in places, is well composed and very nice.