Mine is me being shocked to discover that you humans have such strange bone structure.

Actually it's a gif I found many years ago in a free web gallery. It seemed to fit the name....

I wasn't casting aspersions, John, just making a comment. It's a bit odd that after astarting this thread the OP hasn't commented at all.

Isn't this thread in the wrong part of the forum anyway? I thought this section was to "Post pictures taken using Pentax related equipment to show its capabilities here"

PM sent re the K-x

Welcome Paul, I did the same as you a while go, I had an E520, which I liked, but I decided to switch to Pentax as I found the four-thirds sensor too noisy at high ISO. I first bought a K7, now got a K5, and am very glad I made the switch!

1 and 3 for me, can't make up my mind which I like best, I like the composition and the foreground in both of them. In 4 the foreground spoils the picture IMO, it's a bit dull in comparison to the rest of the frame, and in the second one the foreground rocks take up a bit too much space. Great sky!

I have to confess that often I don't leave comments at all if I really don't like a picture, unless it's someone whose output I have seen often before and know they won't get disillusioned or annoyed by my comments. I once got a PM from someone who ripped into me for saying what I thought they could do to improve their technique. And they had asked for critique.

If someone asks for critique and I think I can say something constructive then I will generally say something; otherwise I often don't. If I like a picture, I generally say so. In the gallery, I tend to only comment on pictures I like.

I do find it a bit odd though that the OP, who has evidently just joined the forum, has posted this thread before posting any of their own pictures or commenting on anyone else pictures though. Practice what you preach, or don't preach at all.

The last one is my favourite too, though I find the red of the sign a bit distracting; however, that might just be me. I like the second one too, but I am wondering how it looked before the square crop?

On the first one the colours don't look quite right, and it's not very sharp as Karl said.

Look forward to seeing more with the homemade filter!

I really like Balconys; as Smeggy said, it's a shame there's no-one looking over one of them, but that's down to chance. I like the composition. The middle three don't do much for me at all, the composition of them seems a bit random; Train Station especially. Bridgewater Place, with that dark wall on the right and the building leaning, looks a bit awkward. These three also look to me like they have been over-processed, to the point that they have lost sharpness.

The last one is interesting, with the contrast between the rust and the building, and the people giving it a sense of scale.

My thoughts exactly! I really like 3 as well.

Then perhaps I would have to nominate OOF snaphots of pointless objects as the theme.....