Pauly,

Thanks - and please feel free to grab it from my 'Melbourne' pbase gallery (as per my signature), and adjust it in whatever way that suits. The detail (or lack of) under the roof was admittedly a pay-off for retaining the strip of sky on the RHS. The RAW file actually has a little more detail which is not visible here.

Thanks also Terry.

It'd be better as the KO - were the specs to be along the lines suggested by Unlocker, that's what it would do to the competition...

Thanks for the links - what a fascinating history the place has! And two VCs from previous conflicts no less...

Little wonder there is some quiet reflection on ANZAC Day around the area then.

They're really sound questions Mike, and I don't believe I can answer them, at least not in 'rational' terms.

For me, 'how does it overcome them to work?' sets it up as a zero-sum game, where the colour either wins or loses. Rather than create this dichotomy, I can see a way where there is stunning colour and the fence and the central composition and I can still like it.

I feel a bit like Forrest Gump now - not real smart...

Public Holidays in the Land of Oz (Melbourne version)

New Year's Day
Australia Day
Labour Day (aka 8 Hour Day)
Good Friday
Easter Monday
ANZAC Day
Queen's Birthday
AFL Grand Final Day (no it isn't - just kidding!)
Melbourne Cup Day (this one's real and it's unique to Melbourne, hence the heading. Does anyone else have a public holiday for a horse race? )
Christmas Day
Boxing Day

Total - ten days...

Mike,

I can only speak for myself of course - these skies and outdoor colours strongly resonate with what I see in the Land of Oz. In sunlight such as that captured / used by Andrew, colours (including the sky) are vivid sometimes almost beyond belief. Skies here sometimes remind me of the indigo dye you find at stalls in markets (like Khan el Khalili in Cairo for example).

As an aside, I sense that this may have been partly why I occasionally got comments about the saturation of some of my images earlier on. Nonetheless, that's the way it is here too, in similar weather.

So I see that 'success' largely in those terms, for the images in question. Your mileage may vary, of course; and that's the beauty of this place - diversity.

AF Button on K10;
AF / AE-L button on K-x.

Shutter half-press disabled on both.

Centre point only, then recompose on both.

3, 4 and 6 for me Emma, each has some element to recommend them.