Oh Poor HG, that visit to the Whitby Goth Weekend must have had more effect on him than we thought

Welcome to the forum Anna.

Sorry to open up the hornets nest again folks.

Charlotte, you can now upload larger copies of images that were accepted before the site revamp, they don't go through the voting process but are reviewed by the gallery mods, as long as the images are the same and you don't do any more PP there should't be a problem, unless of course it's one that shouldn't have got in. Doing that may reassure you of your talent.

And I wondered who's all the dodgy macro's were, I certainly didn't give them the thumbs up

WOW!!! One small step for Pentax, One giant leap for Pete Stean.

Now that's what I call upgrading your kit

The 16-50 is a very nice lens, the 50-135 on the other hand is a very VERY nice lens.
The K5 isn't half bad either.

Enjoy the kit.
PS; did you win the lottery

without actually been there and witnessing the lighting conditions it would be very difficult to say.

Are you trying to use spot metering under conditions where it's not really suitable?
What does the camera expose like in matrix or centre weighted?

Well I hate to raise this thread from it's peaceful slumber, but having spent some considerable time of late on voting I have to say I am getting fed up of people who can't do something as simple as read the submission rules, I'm talking in particular about over manipulated shots and submission of several similar images.

It seems now that voting is done entirely by ones peers with just the added rights of the gallery host to remove images at their discretion, obviously the gallery hosts don't seem to be doing a very good job!

Rant over..

Damn! why can't this forum be more like Facebook, I could have just clicked "like" instead of typing all this

N..N..N...N....Nooooo! (I nearly said Nikon then) but that's the reason you can't have one

Focus looks OK to me, exposure seems spot on too given the fairly harsh light.

I see you were sneaking off on meets without me Barrie, I'm having words with you

Nice shots Mike, the Lanc and Spits has an HDR feel to it.

I really must do an Airshow this year.