Thanks for the comments! The blown highlights in the first one I actually liked; I have a shot where you can see what's outside the windows, but I preferred this one for the lighting on the statue, and the outside view IMO detracted from the shot. The cut-off base though I should have done something about, especially as I have another shot where the whole base is in the frame, so I will have a go at that one.

I really like the Sigma 24mm f2.8 Super-Wide II, which I picked up for £30, and the Tamron Adapatall 90mm macro f2.5 is excellent, but then again, I've not tried any of the Ltd lenses yet...

The bird looks sharper in the tweaked pics but the background has gone a bit noisy, which I find often happens after sharpening a picture with an OOF or single colour background, especially after some noise reduction. Two ways round this are to either sharpen the picture on a duplicate layer, than erase the background from that layer, so the original background shows through, or apply noise reduction to another layer after sharpening, and erase the bird from that layer the so the original layer with the sharpened bird shows through.

I really like the second mallard in flight shot, though perhaps could also do with a tweak?

Two statues I saw on my recent holiday in Thailand. First one Sigma 10-20, second one Tamron 90mm

Not my normal sort of subject matter, so C+C most welcome.

I love that crop! Two Steps is nice too, but the others are lacking the "bite" some of your other street shots have had IMO.

The latest issue of AP has an article on street photgraphy with some very nice pics; I might go and try it out again myself. If I could get any anywhere near as good as yours I'd be happy.

Bright, colourful and very evocative of spring!

Lovely shot! Being picky, I'd perhaps crop it to get rid of the bright bits top right and botton left.

I must get round to trying to photograph birds....

I agree with all the above

This is one of the type of shots where I find plug-ins like Topaz detail or similar come into their own, used just on the barn it could bring out the detail a lot more.

Great example of global dimming, with contrails from aircraft said to reduce the light reaching Earth by 5% or more. This was confirmed by readings taken around the world imeediately after 9/11, when no aircraft were flying.

It makes a wonderful picture but I am not sure if the "Nature" category on PPG would be the correct category if you uploaded it there though

Nice set, first is my favorite too but I also really like the first one of the heron with the twig in it's mouth.