Wow 0 votes! To be honest I knew it was a cr@p picture but didn't have anything else to enter. I suppose coming third in the weekly comp makes up for it! Well done Gwyn, well deserved, and good to see an outright winner!

I recently got a Hoya 77mm Pro 1 Digital Protector Filter for £20.99 from CameraKing UK. It doesn't do anything except protect the front of the lens. They normally seem to go for about £35 so I think it's a reasonable deal. It gets good reviews too. The merits of filters have been debated before here, but personally I'd rather scratch a filter than a lens. And I'm speaking from experience.

Nice shot, agree about the bright spot on the glasses and the hair though. Nice lighting overall though, good portarit.

Number 1 for me too, the colours look lovely. I agree with David about the sky, which in the third pic does look a bit darker.

Number 1 is lovely, could done have done with filling the frame a bit more though. The smoke looks great though.

I agree about the door staying......it gives a bit more depth and adds a bit of context if that makes sense.

I thought it was a bit pointless entering my pic, and now I know it was....

I prefer the B+W. The colour one does not really look hdr at all, apart from the trees on the right, which I like the look of. I think it would look better with the hdr a bit more in evidence on the tanker. I sometimes overlay the hdr conversion on top of one of the original files and then fade the hdr selectively using the eraser tool at different opacities to get the effect how and where I want it: the one of the dhow in my gallery is done this way and a few on my website.

Nice set: especially like the A380, and it's great to see a B52 still flying.

Nummbers one and three do it for me, especially number one, there's a nice minimilism about it and I love the mad pink colour!