Thats all a completely fanciful leap you've made there ... apprently springing from your imagination ... no one has said anything remotely like that here.

The only thing that has been pointed out here is that appreciation and a little thanks is nice and polite, and that presentation in writing can add to its impact and how the writer is percieved. That is good advice for anyone, with learning difficulties or not.

Thats an over-reaction Marat... bringing learning difficulties into it misses the point. If there are learning difficulties involved, then its for the person themselves to reveal if thats important for them, and if not then getting peoples feedback and reaction to how you come across can only be positive and helpful.

Looking at the almost total fluency in the OPs comments there is no obvious reason to anyone why he would not be able to understand the points made and apply them.

Yes, like many things in life it can be those presentational details that make the difference to how well you are perceived, and how seriously you are taken.

stub62, I know you may well have 'sodded off' (I do hope not) .. but you could have made less of a hash of all this ... a simple thanks for the various pieces of advice that were given would have gone a long way, as would showing that you had actually made use of the advice.

Yes, I'm sure that would work well .. anyway, its always good to revisit places and events taking different lenses, you get very different perspectives.

All good tight compositions, and plenty of interesting angles. You've got right in close so there's plenty to see in detail

I'd give No3 a small brightness boost, and I'd give them all an increase in sharpening.

No 2 is a brilliant effect! Almost looks like 'shutter drag'. I know you wanted to keep the reference point of the tower there, but I do feel the fireworks lose some impact as a result, and it would be better to crop in more, or have shot zoomed in more.

Quite a few differences ... although they both have strong supporters and users who love them!

K5iis has 16 megapixels / k3 24mp

Both have no aa filter over the sensor, but the K3 adds a new 'aa filter simulator' that uses sensor shake technology to simulate the effect of the aa filter if you want it.

K3 has an upgraded Prime Processor (I think) - this makes faster file write times and faster continuous shooting

K3 has upgraded autofocus system with more focus points and more control over focus point activation

K3 has an extra SD card slot so you can record to two cards at once

K3 has the 'flu' card capability, to allow wireless transfer of images to another device in order to copy files out in the field

Thats just a few of the key differences that I know of ... there are plenty of reporst here from users who have found one of the cameras better for certain things than the other. Oh, K3 is more expensive!

Gorgeous skies ! Really love the colours, and you've made a number of interesting sillouete shapes with the castle and hillside. 2 & 4 are the bst I think ... No one suffers from a 'blow-out' in the sky which is just a bit too bright to be believable (considering the ground is dark).

I like the sheep one also, great extra element to the castle adding another dimension.

Mark, regarding the Av mode and using AE-lock ... this does seem to work, and I suppose could be a practical way to get a quick, say one-off HSS flash. In general though I find manual working with the green button for metering the ideal practise.

I agree that with the flash on you need HSS activated to get the speed above 180th. Also, with the Pentax flashgun the only flash mode available with HSS active is P-TTL. I wouldn't have thought HSS operation was compatible with manual flash mode anyway, but it would be interesting to hear if any third party flashes do provide it in other modes?

You're very welcome, it was fun to do, and I am finding HSS flash photography very rewarding .... And yes, I'm lucky to have my little poser there ... But like most of the best models, she don't come cheap