I think you were clocked a couple of times Smeggy. Great set of images. What ISO were your fastest images snapped at? I've just posted one from North Shields shot at 51,200 ISO.

Stunning shots, you can almost feel the cold.
David

Fish Quay #1
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Fish Quay #2
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Fish Quay #3
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Fish Quay #4
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Fish Quay #5
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About 25 members of Durham Photographic Society met up for a shoot at North Shields Fish Quay yesterday, Saturday February 5. Several members had Pentaxes, including Barrie Forbes and me. While there we met another PUF member, Blythman, for the first time.
The final picture was taken in the pub afterwards - at 51,200 ISO
on my K5.
David

A fine set well observed and photogrpahed and I especially like #1.
David

My first SLR was also a Zenit in the early 1970s followed within a couple of years by a Pentax SP500. Incidentally the official difference between the SP500 and the Spotmatic 1000 was the top shutter speed 1/500th sec as opposed to 1/1000th. In fact my SP500 also fired at up to 1/1000 although this top speed didn't show on the shutter speed knob. In the early 1980s I moved on to the MX, my favourite film camera, and a bit later the ME Super and a Z1 in the 1990s. I still have the ME Super and the Z1, now both lying unused.
David

Agreed. The mono does look better to me and by stepping forward you could reduce the impact of that large dark area of tree on the right, or even get rid of it altogether.
David

It happened to me a couple of weeks ago. I accidentally submitted the wrong picture for 'curves' instead of the one I had specially prepared for the comp. I had to delete it. No second chance.
David

Pity Paris isn't on your list. It should be a must for every photographer.
Vienna and Bratislava have both been mentioned, you could do both as they are not far apart.
David

Lovely colour there Ken. I always thought the ist had great saturation. Perhaps in the future this camera will become the Pentax classic which aging enthusiasts drool over the way some of us do now when getting all nostalic about the MX.
David

I got carried away in the autumn doing silhouettes at the Goths Festival and again in the past couple of weeks at the Angel of the North. Here we go again.
David