I'm with the other guys, it's a lovely photo and it works for me but I've no idea about the Victorian plates

It might work if you add some contrast between the smoke and the sky... maybe if you make the sky blue it would be perfect but that's a lot of work.

I also like the blur effect, trully nothing wrong with that but it's now all about that and not the butterfly.

These are the things that the eye like.
1 brightness
2 sharpness
3 colour

What those you can pull the eyes to where you want and when the subject is in one of the focus point of the rule of third it's often the most pleasant although you can break rules but it takes skill to do that.
If you want to know more you could read this http://www.galitz.co.il/en/articles/composition.shtml

This what I would have done with your shot, I hope you don't mind.
You uploaded a small photo so there isn't much left but bare with me please
[IMG]http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk244/Anvh/kupukupu_1272079417.jpg[/IMG]
Cropped the right corner to lose the highlights there and bring the butterfly to one of the focus points of the rule of third, also cropped a bit from the top to do that.
Then added more contrast and make the colours more vibrant, now the left side is slightly darker but where the butterfly is are the highlights so your eyes look at that first. The more vibrant colour makes the photo speak more and has the pleasant effect that the flower on the left in the dark part adds some balanced to the shot without overpowering.

ps. I'm sure that someone else has another vision on this

The exposure looks good and also the sharpness and all.
The only problem is that the photos aren't that interesting.
If you can, you should next time aim your camera a bit higher so that you also get to see something more then just the water it would make the photo more interesting to look at.

Trying out some processing and would like to have some comments on that,
all other comments are appreciate too of course.

Was made at the kids party of my younger brother.
She was flirting with me saying saying I was so cute and wished she had a big brother like me
She was so cute ^^




Seems the exif data is gone, sorry.
K10D + DA*50-135
ISO 100
1/500th
f/2.8
103mm

With the spyder pro software you also see the brightness but I didn't look so good at that but the elite goes a bit further so paid more attention, so it was user error the first time

That was why I was asking who calibrate their screen, I wanted to know around what percentage of the screens would match what i see on my monitor.

Lovely shot

HG I'm currently living at my grandparents place and they have two cats, one looks like your ginger one and the other is a bit more active, it even fetch

@Gwyn, It looks like you have two amazing dogs that keep you busy
It might be I will get stuck in America so I would need to find a breeder there.
The one who took those pictures I linked to on the previous page, that's the husband of the daughter of mister Saarloos so I'm sure they could help me most likely.

Ah okay Peter, it might be better to have photography as a hobby and it's great to help your son once in a while.

Some how the site doesn't load, it's probably on my side though.

I wouldn't mind going Nikon, they at least or close to Pentax but I never got around with Canon, I so hope my girl wouldn't want that one.
At the moment she does have a Pentax film camera that she was given by a family member although she isn't happy with it ^^;

@Doug, thank you, I haven't seen that film so will give it a go.

That's the Mark I version of the Pentax the WR has Mark II optics and those have been quite improved at the corners, I believe someone did some tests here but can't find it.

As for an idea, might it not be handy to make something like the lens review on Pentaxforums.com?