Thank you Davex

Adjust the levels so that you got true shadows and highlight so you got more contrast in your photo. You can read more about that here link
Then some other small tweaks to locally change the contrast and added some sharpness.
I also change the colour slightly, made it a bit more blue since it became very yellowish after the processing.
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The photo doesn't do much to me.
I think it looks a bit greyish and is lacking contrast, why don't you tweak it a bit so that it come out more?

ps. Davex is it okay to play a bit with your photo?

A mono-pod when handled properly can also help, made 1 seconds shots with the help off one and they are easier to use on the street.

For manual mode I use the green button a lot.
When you press the green button it automatically set the settings so you get a good exposure.
In the menu you can select if it needs to adjust both settings or only shutterspeed or the f-number.

Here you go Tim link
7,64 is the magic number.

So, the lens is a 3.85 mm f/2.8 lens.
This corresponds to 35mm film camera equivalent lens of 29.4mm f/21.4.

I've read over that part.
If you mean the quality of the file system then yes most likely but the capture quality of the sensor is different though.

If that happens I think it would be the simplest that the one overseeing the competition should have the deciding vote then.
It does cripple the voting system this way a bit but it's the only way to do it I think.

Yes that could be done.

Someone should just upload their photo on the web and give the link to the "overseer" of the competition.
He could then show all the photos in one comment here where you can vote.
It might see like a lot off work but if the one entering does a good job it could be a simply copy paste thing for each entry.
I'm actually for this but don't know what others think about it?

Colour space doesn't matter with RAW because it doesn't have one

That's not fully true, the sensors are very different in terms off design, CCD is better in some aspects and the CMOS in others.

Here is a review about the K-X vs the K-7 sensor link
This was said.
Therefore, the K-x sensor outperforms the K-7 in low light situations whereas the K-7 outperforms the K-x in good light. This is further confirmed by the better resolution and more artifact-free images from the K-7.

Just read this Friday that the NEC USB3-chip will go down in price the end off this year.

About the updating, neither am I but I do upgrade the GPU or the amount of ram over time and the CPU. That's why I want a solid motherboard that can withstand the times off time for 4 or 5 years.
My current motherboard is 6 year old and had all the new connections besides DDR2 at that time so I've had SATA2 and PCIe and that kept the system quite up-to-date even with the old CPU but that's getting too old now