Thank you for making me smile, I just got a mental picture of you kitted out in camo gear and telephoto lens crawling up to the tulip with a voice over from David Attenborough

Not overkeen on the second shot, its a bit too much of a snap and looks cluttered with the leaves etc, the other two on the other hand are stunners and I cant decide which has the edge as they each have their own Je ne sais quoi

Mmmmm Venison!

Yup, nice backlighting
have a go at dodging the faces on the second shot, I think it would improve it enormously.

This is definately not an English Heritage property then

Nice shot John, the only criticism I have is the overhanging branches on the left, I was once told never to do this unless you include the tree thats holding them up however I think this pic just shows rules are made to be broken as the branches fill an area of otherwise blank sky and balance those clouds on the right. Nice exposre too.

I was being facetious, my eyes aren't that bad.

I would crop the wall from the first shot and up the saturation a bit

I'd have had at least a couple of dozen shots of that door

Is it me or is the bottom of the border bent

Nice one Sue, and welcome to the forum.

The sky needs cropping, its flat and lifeless and does nothing for the image whatsoever, I would come down to just above the tree, then maintain the aspect ratio by cropping the sides, take more off the right and put the palace on the third.

When the sky is like this your best excluding it altogether where possible, a bit awkward in this shot but lowering the camera angle would have cropped the sky and included more of those autumn trees in the foreground.

Its a common enough mistake but youv'e placed the main subject slap bang in the middle of the image, sometimes it works but more often than not it doesn't. learn from it and keep snapping

OK, thanks guys.
I was considering doing a test, printing one out "normally" and doing one after re-sizing but as you well know A3 paper isn't cheap and neither is the ink (now that I'm using genuine Epson:shock

I think the next print will get resized and see how it looks.

I have a Sunpack 888AFZ (pentax dedicated) but obviously unsuitable for anything other than older cameras or manual use as its only TTL, it could be used manually by adjusting the ISO setting on the gun. it has a bounce head too.
Its going for a Tenner if your interested. if you travel anywhere near Leeds your welcome to pick it up and save on postage

Well I think Simon is telling tales, it must be manipulated how do I know? well its supposed to be in Wales but I cant see any sheep

Nice shot Simon and congrats on the publication