Ted, is it me, or you set up your gear (or processing software) to higher than default saturation levels (vivid colours)?
My favourite is no.2 - with the water flowing down the waterfall, nice place. Probably it would look even better with blue sky (CPL filter?) - but it is beautiful anyway.

Colour again. It's warmer and still not too saturated.

I did, actually

Last weekend I went with my family to Kedleston Hall park. We planted some trees and walked the park - it was beautiful - the weather was fantastic, blue skies and sun I used mostly 16-45mm with CPL filter - my favourite combination.
Don't hesitate to tell me if you think they are rubbish (but at least please tell me why) or edit them if you have a good idea and time. However, I hope you will like them.

Scary tree:
[IMG]http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo284/misiek_knm/PU/imgp0758.jpg[/IMG]
I edited the RAW file to brighten shadows a bit.
19.0mm; Shutter: 1/1000s; Aperture: f/4.5; ISO: 200

Ivy-dressed trees:
[IMG]http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo284/misiek_knm/PU/imgp0717.jpg[/IMG]
45mm, Shutter: 1/60s; Aperture: f/5.6; ISO: 200

Quiet landscape. I thought about cropping from the top and from the bottom, but then it seemed to be a bit unbalanced somehow
[IMG]http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo284/misiek_knm/PU/imgp0674.jpg[/IMG]
38mm, Shutter: 1/180s; Aperture: f/5.6; ISO: 200

A natural wooden dragon. My wife spotted it.
[IMG]http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo284/misiek_knm/PU/imgp0730.jpg[/IMG]
20mm, Shutter: 1/180s; Aperture: f/4.0; ISO: 200

Waterfall bridge:
[IMG]http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo284/misiek_knm/PU/imgp0769.jpg[/IMG]
20mm, Shutter: 1/350s; Aperture: f/4.5; ISO: 200

I made much more, but uploaded just two or three more in there.

A bit late, but...

I made this picture with 55-300mm @ 300mm, hand-held (well, I crouched and kept my arms tight to the body). I cropped it first to about 1600x1060 - there was lots of water around. The lens is fantastic.
BTW, anyone knows what bird is it?

[IMG]http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo284/misiek_knm/PU/imgp0779a.jpg[/IMG]

K20D,
Shutter: 1/1000 sec., ISO: 200, Aperture: f/5.8

The dog is really beautiful - and has some wolfy look in the eyes! Plus, I like the colours of the picture - so warm.

I use Linux (Debian distro; Ubuntu is based on Debian) on my primary home PC. I also use MS Windows (XP on laptop, Vista at work) so I can compare. I really like Linux, however there some Windows applications you'd like to have and they won't work - ie I tried Silkypix demo version - without success, it was terribly slow. But then hey, it's free, it's really easy in use nowadays.

But then you have LOTS of free software, available to install. I'm not good in postprocessing / photo editing, so I do not use such programs extensively, but I mostly use:
* GIMP - for advanced editing
* gThumb (in Gnome environment) - for quick viewing, rotating, etc
* RawTherapee v 2.4 - for RAW editing
* Picasa (Google app) - there is Linux version - for photo management / Picasa albums upload

You can also use many other, of which I'd mention:
-RAW editing:
* UFRaw
* RawStudio
-Photo management:
* digiKam (KDE) - quite powerful - create albums, editing, tagging, etc
* KPhotoAlbum (KDE) - advanced image tagging

Anyone knows what are the disadvantages of using expanded dynamic range in K20D (apart from the obvious reduced ISO range)?
First I read the manual I thought that it was a good idea to switch the feature on, so I'd loose less details in shadows, but now I wonder if I was right.

Oh dear It reminds me my parents' dog (when I was a child) - once it jumped into the water expecting grass (the water was covered with some duckweed, it was completely green). The poor dog went underwater, get out after a minute or so and became extremely friendly. My mum wasn't happy, believe me

Nice shot

Karl, they're fab Right man, right camera, at right place and right time