The first wedding can be very daunting, but there's been some good advice given, so just go for it. It's essential to prepare everything you can, have spares of everything, have an assistant to help organise the guests at least, and practice, practice, practice with your kit so you know it totally.

If on the day something appears amiss you need to be able to spot it very quickly and correct it, so being familiar with your kit is fundamental.

The actual day's shooting is half photography and half the ability to control groups of people and keep things moving along. To make sure you cover every shot needed, then make a list and tick off each picture as you take it.

It's almost certain to be the case if Pentax produce a FF DSLR. The provision will be there to switch to APS-C so that crop sensor lenses can still be used.

Another out of time image removed. Please read the rules, but to summarise the Monthly competition is for new images shot in the month of the competition. So the July 2014 competition means images must be shot in July 2014.

The weekly competition has no time limitation.

There are lots of options on eBay, not necessarily those models but plenty that will do the job very well.

Both the 17-70mm and 16-45mm Pentax lenses are generally considered to be very fine, so is it possible that the focusing of the camera body is out? Or, if they were bought second hand, are the lenses both damaged or out of alignment in some way?

Perhaps that could be looked at, because if I had either of those lenses, and I do have the 16-45mm, I wouldn't be thinking of a Tamron to replace them.

This thread is already a sticky. The essence of sharpening is also in the six Beginners articles I wrote, to be found very early on in the articles section of the site.

135mm arose because it was the longest length that could be accurately focused using a Leica rangefinder camera. SLR viewfinders are more accurate with longer lenses than this.

I always felt it was too long for portraits.

Nice bit of photo journalism!

It's all part of Portmeirion Hotel and it's possible to rent any of these cottages just like any other holiday cottage. A toll is paid to enter the village as a day visitor.

Have a look on the internet and check out its history. The architecture was brought from all over the world and rebuilt here, from about the 1920s. Also remember "The Prisoner" was filmed here in 1967 or so, and the village became much more well known after that.

Following on from a comment by Horst, the lens I used for all the Portmeirion shots was the Pentax 18-135mm WR.