Three-part springtime! (1)

New year, new spring growth - I love it! To me, everything seems pristinely attractive, even the simplest aspects of nature. Hope you agree!
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Couldn't agree more - although Autumn is probably my favourite season I do find the excitement of new Spring growth encourages me to get the camera out a lot more.

This is a very nice little selection, particularly like the orange poppy , not over-saturated - so natural looking

I know I've said it before John, but the only negative I find to some of your images is not being able to enjoy them at a larger size - the landscape format shots would benefit greatly in showing more of the detail you've captured (Just my opinion )

Thanks for your generous comment, John - always a pleasure to read your thoughts. One thing you could perhaps expand on is your feeling of "not being able to enjoy them at a larger size"? When I click on an individual image (not just my own), it shows virtually full screen in a new window with "Pentax User Close" at the top to return to the original post. I've always assumed that this is what you mean when you have added "best viewed large" to postings of your own, which certainly makes a big difference to how an image shows on screen. Am I missing something here?

Wait a mo! I just discovered something I had not known before: if I click on an upright image, it appears in a new window (and here's what I just found out!) with details of camera, ISO, Aperture, Shutter speed and Focal length also visible if I scroll down below the image.
These details are apparently only visible beneath upright images, not landscape ones; and upright images definitely appear much larger than landscape ones. All of this in itself seems odd to me! I don't have any explanation for it (and without your comment, John, I probably would be unaware of it, so thanks for waking me up to it!)

I'm probably writiing all this in the wrong place now, so if anyone would like to respond elsewhere on the site, I'll keep a lookout there!

I don't understand why your portrait images are larger with info underneath but your landscape images don't enlarge when clicked on and don't display info underneath.

Perhaps one of the excellent staff (Rick or John maybe?) could help?