96,000 miles? That's what the cars I BUY have on the clock! My friends who have bought new or nearly new cars 'on tick' are always complaining about little things going wrong, and the expense of warranty-compliant servicing and parts etc.

That 'new car smell' is nice but it sure is expensive!

Spectacular beast, superbly captured.

I agree with Paul's first comment re context if it's a documentary shot, but I can't agree that this 'is the wrong type of subject for artistic photography'. That's too much of a blanket statement and it's offered up as if it is fact rather than opinion.

There is - in my opinion - LOADS of potential for artistic photography in that structure. I think you just need to get in there and start isolating parts rather than necessarily showing the whole thing with no context. There's a potential treasure trove of texture, pattern, rhythm, and juxtaposition of form in there waiting to be unlocked.

The Grebe shot is a likely competiton winner Dan, well done!

Well - you've already achieved that with your Allium picture which you use as your avatar.

Flash photography is simply an annoyance to other people and kills the atmosphere in museums and cathedrals etc. It's a shame that as Steve says, this sometimes means all photographers are penalised, as people don't realise we can turn our flashes off.

You need to do it in Photoshop - or alternatively upload to Flickr and link to the medium size image. But this site only gives you an hour to go back and edit your posts so it's probably too late.

The extra skins would go straight in the bin, but luckily I like the brushed steel of the 'naked' camera - especially with the orange lens ring.

That's good news as it should be possible to tweak the levels to bring out more detail and modelling in the petals. Can't really see it at the moment though, unless I squint and angle my monitor!

Yes, I prefer a more regular aspect ratio too, and there's a little too much dead space on the left. Perhaps it would have been better composed with the flowers to the left, so the sharp one is nearer the middle? It leads the eye to the edge of the shot as it stands.