Nice set of pics, especially considering the ISO. I've never tried sharpening before noise reduction, must give it a go!

Nice slide-show, I really like the punks with beer.

After a burst of entries all at once it's gone quiet: surely some more to come?

I would hardly call your pictures " a step too far" Andrew, but I know what you mean about taking street photographs. I went out yesterday on a similar mission and came up with a bunch of blurred, badly composed and totally useless pictures. I was trying to follow some advice I had read in a magazine on how to get good street photographs, but to no avail. The only decent ones I have ever managed to get have been by being furtive, with the camera dangling on it's strap, nonchalantly pressing the shutter while hoping that I have something worth recording in the frame! Any decent pictures I have got in this manner have been more by luck than judgement. Some people seem to have a knack for it, and I often wish I did. I also always seem to have the wrong lens on the camera when I am taking street pictures.

Strangely, though, it seems much easier in the third world, where people are generally less suspicious of people with cameras, and are used to seeing foregners snapping away at everything in site.

Andrew, I am afraid I am going to be a cantankerous git again and say I am not keen on any of these shots. Of the car park ones, I like Stain the most, and second the (perhaps cropped a bit more top and bottom) Slice, but I don't think any of these are among your best by any stretch of my limited imagination. The street shots all seem a bit noisy and soft. In fact most of them look like massive crops from larger pictures.

I love a lot of your work, and I don't want you to think I only like your delapidated decaying detail stuff. I think you are a very talented photographer, and I know you can do much better than this.

I think if you set your mind to it you could take far better street photographs than these, capturing far more of early 21st Century life than these "humdrum (quote)" shots capture.

I would also love to see what you could do with a wide-angle lens on landscapes or series like the quarry pictures..

Apologies for being blunt and perhaps out of order.

Rant over,
Jon.

I hope Sandanista can re-enter too!

Well the first entry is in, how about some more?

Me too, Wrong Tool is great!

Thanks i-Berg! Still waiting for the first entry for the fortnightly comp......

Thanks Darlene! Some long years, some short ones and some I can't remember! Not quite sure where it all went I still feel about 28!