Sorry - a bit late spotting this one. Thank you for viewing and commenting, Barrie.

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Philip

Why do Pentax charge such ludicrous prices for rechargeable lithium batteries?

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Philip

A big +1 to all that. Thank you David.

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Philip

I am here to learn and the exposure did not look right to me, and also the histogram has very little beyond halfway. That is why I asked if the photo represented the scene at the time of shooting - and thank you for answering that point, Techno. However, I do agree about reducing the impact of the foliage.

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Philip

Some have mentioned the dark foregrounds and, if they were mine, I think I would try to lift the tones there slightly, e.g. so that the foreground in #7 is similar to #5. The latter is my choice - the sky is wonderful and it is balanced (sort of reflected) by the colours in the foreground flowers.

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Philip

The photo seems to be at least a stop under-exposed, but does it represent how the scene looked at the time?

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Philip

As a result of my experience of many printers, both at home and at work (before retiring a few years ago), I use only HP and only OEM cartridges. Even the four ink models produce very good photo prints. I have an HP Photosmart printer from 2005 that still reliably prints well, up to A4 size, alongside a recent HP Officejet inkjet printer which, despite not being labelled as a photo printer, produces very good colour or mono prints up to A3. Both printers cost about £120 at the time. For B&W mono prints I set the printer to use the black cartridge only, with pleasing results.

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Philip

I like the buildings shots very much - dramatic angles, light, shadows and reflections.

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Philip

Stuey and Nigel,

Many thanks to you both for viewing and commenting.

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Philip

These were taken this afternoon using a 40mm Ltd on K-5ii, recorded as JPEGs, tweaked and re-sampled to 800px in PaintShop Pro X6.

1. The manor gate:



2. The manor house:



3. A sculpture of a discus thrower:



4. The entrance to the walled garden:



5. An overgrown old fence:



6. A tall pine tree:



7. Backlit young ivy leaves:



8. Backlit ash leaves:



Any comments welcome.

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Philip