I also find it a bit uncomfortable at times doing street photography, and here in Doha by neccessity most of it has to be of the furtive variety, which I don't feel very comfortable with. However, I think you did fine on your first attempt. It might be worth having a go on a different day; unless of course you feel that it's not for you at all. I don't do much, but it can be fun. I don't think I could be as in your face as some people are, nor am I particularly keen on the results of stuffing a camera right in someones face.

I am not surprised you took offence at Ken's comments, which were totally out of order, unconstructive and pointless.

I have the Sigma 18-250, which apart from having more range, gets much better reviews than the 18-200. I am quite happy with it, it outperforms the WR 50-200 in that range and is very good at 18mm. Overall, it works pretty well at f8-f11 at all focal lengths, especially if you use the lens correction in Photoshop.

Mathers of Lancashire always have plenty of Pentax stuff, got my K5 from them.

Thanks Kris, and everyone else, for the comments. I still think I can improve my technique somehow. I nearly lost these pics when the memory card disintegrated when I took it out of the camera!

I really like these, especially the first two, the colour works really well on the them, though I think they would look very good in mono too. I love the bits of spider web.

I had a look at one of those, it's bit large unfortunately. I did fiddle with a Gorillapod, but there's not really anything to attach it to. Also, if it's turbulent, I guess arms work better than anything attched to the aircraaf; though it was pretty smooth when I took these as we always try to stay upwind of storms.

I really like he first one, the third one could possibly do with a bit cropped off the left hand side?

Yukk! Very well captured though.

No 2 is great, lovely and sharp and the background is perfect for setting off the bird. I can never seem to get birds in flight, had a go at photographing some hawks recently but I just don't sem to be quick enough to capture them.

Excellent shots, not seen cute furry things from you before, 2 and 4 are excellent.