The thing about this IMHO is it's very difficult to retain the mistiness if we process the image as you have done. It loses all the misty effect and doing HDR means it ends up a different sort of image.

Too dark for me and not enough light, impenetrable mist, but to be fair then you start to turn it into my vision of the image, not yours. And it should be yours.

So you are the final arbiter of what you want to achieve - HDR or mist?

If I had just one lens it would have to be as versatile as possible, so that would mean either the 16-45mm f4 or the 16-50mm f2.8

With either of those I could do 95% of the photography that I do now.

My goodness, Chris must be so embarrassed by all this praise!

A word of thanks to Rob for continuing to update the sticky.

Be careful about storing lenses in pouches - they can end up a very nice incubator for fungus.

OK, not quite sure why this is creating such a stir, but please don't let it degenerate.

The thing here is that we all have the facility to post pictures in the Gallery or the Forum. It's up to you where you post.

As for critiques, they should always be polite and constructive. State what you like and don't like and why, but don't denigrate the efforts of others.

Respect is always necessary - people put a lot of effort into their work and that needs to be remembered.

I'll put it another way - the Pentax Adapter K will work fine with no problems whatsoever.

Some corrections have been under way to solve the problem with the green new post indicators.

Seems like there has been some fun whilst I've been at the NEC!

It's not really a contentious or difficult subject - the Gallery is there for us all to show our images.

The short answer is put in there the ones you want people to see! It's been left for users to use as they wish, so guidelines that restrict don't seem necessary to me. Guidlines only indicate what you should do - it's a Gallery, so put up your pictures!

Anyone can comment anywhere, so surely that can't be described as a clique situation. I'm also not sure what is difficult to access about the Forum?
I don't see either how the Forum could be considered superior to the Gallery as they are totally different things.

Can you elucidate please?