What a life
Nice photo, the colours are a bit muted though so maybe a tiny bit more saturation/vibrance might do it some good.

Patrick the flash sync of the k7 is 1/180.
1/250 was mentioned was just a rumour going around.
With HSS (high shutter speed/sync) you can however sync past 1/180 but the flash need to support that since it's a special feature.
It come close to strobing the flash during the whole duration of the shutter movement.

SR can be left on, I never found it a problem with the K10D and never heard something about the other cameras. So it's safe to assume it's no problem with the K7 either.

Graham, the Pentax one I've found to be the best.
You can buy colour cards like these
link good but expensive £94.55
link 1/5th of the price and you get two cards.
With those you can make your own profile so that the colours are almost true to what they really are.

For now you can adjust the red tones in the Camre-profile tab to get the desired effect.

Sorry I can't help you there.
I don't have Elements also this topic is about colours so you might be better of starting a new topic, you will have abetter cahnge of someone giving you the solution.

Thank you Prieni I don't worry much, almost nothing is original any more but still the accusing is not fun.
I'll go for option 2, like said I feel like Elisha Gray
Although like said some elements I've seen in other photos before.

Here are the photos
http://www.diabola.org/2009/04/15/a-thousand-words/
http://matt-seago.deviantart.com/art/love-to-hate-76886842

My is also on deviantart and I've looked on that site also, just search for the words hate Love letter or something like that and you won't find one... at least not in the first 10 pages and I tried google as well.

Steve, some older flashes have a high trigger voltage so you need to be careful with that.
Canon's are very sensitive but I believe John(???) said that Pentax can go up to 200Volt but that it wasn't a smart idea to do that.

I found this list link
Pentax AF200SA is 7.65-7.72V, the 260 is from the same time link so it's very likely that the trigger voltage is the same.

ps. can we make a sticky with a list of helpful links?

A quick question about my photo, have you seen something like that somewhere else before?

I've submitted the photo to the Dutch forum and there it was said that the idea wasn't original and he had photos so that is a bit disappointing.
I did searched the web for a photo like mine at the time I got the idea but didn't found any although elements in the photo aren't original I couldn't find a similar photo.

I feel like Elisha Gray now
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Gray_and_Alexander_Bell_telephone_controversy

Capture one is from phase one, I've tried it and it's an interesting package but it doesn't fit well in my workflow, lightroom + photoshop workflow is much smoother.

Graham those are camera profiles, those are needed to convert the RGB values of the camera to colour.
There is a RGB filter in front of the lens and the camera profile is there, because a brand can use different shade of red then another brand, if you get my drift.

It could lead to a mild colour cast.
I use the Pentax also a lot but it's a bit redder then the other ones but I like the colour and they are most true to life.
You could experiment to see if the profile makes the colour shift, it could easily be that's the cause but does not need to be.

Here look at Dpreview, you can see the difference of the camera profiles here link

Well going from 16bit JPG to 8bit JPG you don't lose just information because it's a lower bit but also because JPG is a compression, so instead of a 16bit JPG I would advice you to use TIFF.
But I see that you use Adobe programs so I can advice you to use DNG instead of TIFF, DNG is even better, smaller file and no information lost. Also you can do everything with a DNG file in photoshop, without limitation some other files have.

For final JPG can do it for print, certainly when you sent the file over the internet, if you go to the shop I would use TIFF.
Also Ask the shop for a profile of their printer, that way you've more control over how the colours would be.

Don't worry Offertonhatter, it wasn't directed to you it happens on different sites as well and I take no personal offence and I hope you won't neither.

I also make a sharp remark to other brand owners and they can take it but it comes back as well, indeed that;s fun but there is no one to defend that brand here so