I think they're very good. I take my old point-and-shoot to the few gigs I go to, and I think it's getting to a point where it needs to be replaced with something more modern, though I suspect the Q10 is probably out of my price range for the few I do. I don't fancy trying to get the SLR in, nor trying to keep hold of it once in.

It's always a challenge to keep anachronisms out - one of the reasons I didn't do the Battle of Nantwich this year is the prolific hi-vis vests, lamp posts and portable toilets. And from public access I struggle to get anything other than the same shots over and over.

I heard this was on and thought about going, but the weather didn't encourage me.

That looks very similar to the Hanimex 135mm lens I bought from a car-boot sale some years back - not quite the same, but similar design for the focussing ring, similar design for the aperture ring (although the Hanimex has two). I must get round to trying it out one of these days, especially if the quality is anything like this one. That's the trouble with lenses for a pound,

Had a quick trip here to look at the big rabbits, I wish I'd taken (a) a tripod, and (b) a coat. I had a mini tripod but it really wasn't up to much so ended up doing handheld shots, or trying to hold the camera steady on top of a fence or something. There's not a lot there of suitable height. Anyway, enough excuses

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As usual, any comments or critique welcome. I hope to try a few more of these cityscapes next year, I've seen some lovely shots.

That's what I mean, the images above are great because there's something else going on, not just the firework trail in the sky. I must try harder next year.

I prefer the second one, buildings in the first are a bit distracting for me, but just because they're not anything special to look at (with apologies if one or all of them are your house...)

When I've done them in the past, I found that a shorter focal length works better for what I'm trying to achieve. Keep in mind that there's no way to predict exactly how far the explosion (for want of a better word) will spread, and by the time you've started to get a feel for it the display will be half over. First time I took my Tamron 70-300 and it was far too long at its widest setting, so since then I've used the kit lens. Last year I was a bit closer to the display and even the 18-55 was cutting some patterns off.

For me the really nice images are those that have some interesting foreground content as well as the firework patterns. I got some nice patterns, but my local display is just set basically in a field so there's not really much else there, in fact I decided not to bother this year as I felt the images would be virtually the same as last year. I saw some lovely ones (on here, I think) from a previous year where the display was somewhere coastal and the photographer had also got the seafront in.

Did you forget to add a price for the K5-II, or am I reading the ad wrongly? I don't want it, I should add, but I couldn't see whether the K5-II was £320, or whether that applied to the lens above it.

Can you right-click the image in Explorer (in Windows) and display the EXIF data? The Google Earth application (as opposed to the web site) used to allow photos to be uploaded and placed in specific locations, you'd like to think that might act on EXIF GPS data as well, but I haven't tried it.