Hi Donna, I think you will find the Scandinavians responsible, their countryside is covered in timber buildings with that red coating. Lovely photo with the leaf colours.

Nice composition. So why is she covered up when he isn't?! And I wonder what they both find so fascinating in the urn.

Certainly is worth sharing; shame I'm the only other one to date to have thought so. It really would benefit from the webite being able to cope with larger panoramic images so we can see them clearly! I agree, this is lovely. You can see it larger if you click on the photo to open on separate page and then zoom in with ctrl and +

A beautiful classic autumn shot

That's a great picture with lovely background setting the owl off.

A super image of a great example of 1930s Egyptian cinema style, the facade looks basically sound so it would be nice to see it imaginatively restored. Zooming in I see what you mean about the stitching, do you think it's because of the wide focal length? It might be worth a free trial of one or two specialist programs, I got good results from ptgui: www.ptgui.com and lost less margin after cro ...

Impressive sharpness for hand-held. Nice lighting.

Nice picture. How do you manage to get a large area to remain focused? Macro is a bit of a black art at the moment :| Check out 'focus stacking' for technique. But 20 - was it combined in RAW? Must have been a massive file.

This is a great picture - so glad you weren't tempted to render it B/W!

Wish I was there! Such a difference to a London cafe where there's no conversation, just everyone texting.