Nice, thanks. Great explanation - I can see it in my mind And fantastic results

I agree, the 1st one is spoiled a bit by the shadow. How do you 'remove shadow' with PP?

My favourite is #3, I almost feel the weight of the stones

Exactly, give him a blackboard and a piece of chalk

BTW, the black surrounding - is it post-processing effect or black table or?

True. I think that snow is mostly enjoyed by children anyway I like snow, but for a short periods only - like 1-2 weeks a year.

Thanks Tel

Congratulations

The frost on leaves looks fantastic.
And, as Stefan said, you still have some tag code remaining. It should look like:

[ IMG]http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo284/misiek_knm/PU/imgp0869a.jpg[/IMG]

Just without the space character between "[" and "IMG".

Actually, when you use photobucket, hover the mouse cursor over the selected picture you want to attach; you will see a small pop-up with image name and a few edit boxes. Select the last edit box (Img Code), copy the text from there and paste here, that's what I usually do.

I use NAS with mirror RAID on it, keep backup on a PC harddrive and copy the backup onto an external drive (WD) from time to time.

I'm not too experienced so don't take it too seriously, but I preferred them in colour. They seem to be too dark to me now. However... if I think of them as night pictures taken at a full moon... after reconsidering I like them in B&W too

I think I'd like the lens too But first I want to buy 100mm macro

What do you drive, a lorry?

After a thought... When I took back / middle seats off I carried 3-seat sofa and 2 armchairs in mine...