Super series of landscapes, nevertheless!

Well I am certainly not a 'savvy pro' and the need to critique images makes me feel as if I am not worthy as well. It's a common feeling to try to avoid passing serious comment on other people's work. Similarly, you have to encourage (not splat !) newcomers who can clearly compare their work with other pictures as well as anyone else can - and maybe that's how to view it? You look at it, you note what you like or don't like and you say why. Nobody wants an erudite display of technical guff and it isn't expected. But what it does do is make you seriously consider what is before you. Use and praise what you find good and correct what you consider not so good in your own work.

If it were not for a member posting a critical comment I don't know what my work would be like today. The comment was, "For goodness sake, David, please SHARPEN your images!" .......... prior to that I thought it was cheating!

Does nobody want to go outside their front door and photograph the concrete, tarmac, slabbed, cracked, pristine, wrecked public pavement (read 'sidewalk') that is set before all of us?

Whoops! I shall shut up !

Getty own mega numbers of images with both their own and assorted authors' ownership. Of course they are worried that some computer geek will rip the arse out of their currently profitable trousers. ........ And what of the rights of the AI that learned how to do it?

Hmm. Pretty tasteless heap of fibreglass isn't it?

I remount old lenses regularly for use on my Pentax bodies and I have found that 50mm is about as far as you can go. The front element cannot be retracted inwards sufficiently to achieve focus after that. You have worked a minor miracle to get a 35mm into any sort of focus!

Change of topic: One of the old cameras I recently acquired had a 120 Ilford FP4 plus ISO 125 film in it. I wound it through and it came off the spool almost at once and I guess it has been fully used. I don't know if anyone has opened the back prior to me getting it and I certainly have no idea what might be on it. I sealed the tab and it is sitting here. Would you like to have a go at it? It could be good, bad or indifferent. (Otherwise, I shall dump it as I have no idea about developing films).

I don't like it either but that's what progress is about so let's suck it and see.

You might have your own solution but if you have Faststone Image Viewer (often under-rated), load the image, hit Ctrl-E and use the relevant slider to reduce the red level by about -13. It takes away the slight red cast and leaves a perfectly black background. IMHO, the scene springs forth with a new clarity.

Whatever that crap, what a magnificent result you have achieved. Well worth freezing your bits off for!

Empty Whitby does look a bit strange, Maybe that's why I too like the 'presence' of the gull sitting on the chimney pot.