The colour shots seem OK to me. The first B&W shot seems good too. The other B&W shots are lacking in contrast somewhat.

IMHO, the last colour shot is the best, very dramatic. I like it.

Lovely images of one of my favourite subjects.

I'll have to try one of those tripod thingies one day ( I have 3 and rarely use them)

It saddens me to have to report that the spider and most of her babies are no more.

We have 14,15, or is it 16 feral cats, all of whom except one live outside, we just feed them and have had them all rendered unproductive. As is the way with nature, they are all higher in the food chain than spiders.

I don't think I need say any more except, some of the babies, about 10 of them, have some how avoided becoming cat food and live on to become photographic models in future years.

The errant, and obviously hungry, feline is called Matilda, and rest assured she won't be doing too much waltzing for a while.

PS: For the cat lovers, she's fine, no ill effects.

PPS: For the spider lovers . . . there are plenty more.

Foe me, I love 'em both, but that's life, as they say.

Not a bad idea, it'd save me about 37€ a month for my monitored alarm system.

Isn't nature wonderful, a solution for everything.

You might have to wait for more than an hour before getting any comments and or criticism, but no need to wait, tell us what you think of your images.

What could you have done differently with #1 for instance? And, why is #15 your favourite picture?

BTW: Lens is spelled lens, and not lense.

Believe me, I do.

And someday soon . . . .

It's highly likely that you could fool the body by insulating the 'data' pin, but I think that might just turn the lens into a MF one.

Surely they already cater for the needs of 99.999% of most photographers's needs with their existing product line.

Optio's for the P&S users, K-r for the beginner/amateur, the K5 for the advanced amateur/semi-pro, and the 645D for Pro's.

I very much doubt that many existing K5 users would want to pay the premium that a FF body will undoubtedly attract, even if they currently percieve that they 'want' or 'need' one. Any FF body from Pentax is going to cost somewhere in the region of £3500 to £4500. At that sort of price, I certainly won't be buying one.

My wife spotted her first and in the semi-darkness I thought it was just another type of spider I hadn't seen before. These are very hurried shots with little merit other than as a record. I was more than a little surprised when I saw them on the big screen, to see all those babies.

Apparantly wolf spiders, and possibly others, do this with their young. They carry the egg sac around with them attached to their spinerettes, when they hatch, the spiderlings climb aboard mums back. Fascinating I think.

I photographed one a while ago that was on our house wall. Knowing no different, we nicknamed it Boris. We'll have to call her Beryl now I guess.

This is one of the wolf spider family, often known as the European Tarantula, carrying her young.

She turned up on our doorstep (literally) last night.