Don
Yes I have read that somewhere but couldnt recall ther exact technique, it may have been Brian peterson or Guy Edwards. Thanks for the reminder.

Well, you could use a grey card and take your light meter reading off that. Not that I have ever done this.
I tend to use the zone system, there is a good tutorial here with a printable zone card at the end of it.

Yeh I was just focused on Wales or somewhere and some stunning mountain or seascapes. Oh Well
Actually I like the egg idea, particularly the omelette. Hopefully I have just bought a macro so we shall see.....

Mikew I suppose some B&W in the rain could look good, those atmospheric By 'eck its grim up north kind of images, and at least the k20 can cope.

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My apologies that was a hastily typed error and should have been Km, the Kx got the 5 stars.

I have all next week to take pictures. The weather forecast is appalling at least until Wed or Thursday, I dont have a studio setup. Where shall I go? Quandary time

Interesting, there is a similar review in Decembers Digital SLR photography magazine called Budget DSLR buyers guide.
Cameras reviewed:
Pentax Km (has nobody told them its discontimued?)
Sony Alpha 230
Olympus E-520
Nikon D3000
Canon EOS100D
Pentax Kx
Nikon D5000
Sony Alpha 380
Canon EOS 450D
Canon EOS 500D

The Kx came out very well mentioning good IQ, and colour reproduction. The AF works well and the and the metering system is good too. Noise is very well controlled with images at 1000iso showing very little noise.
The only downside being the battery life on the AA's.
The Kx got the 'Highly Rated' award and 5 Stars

The others
The Kx got 4 stars stating the AF is pretty basic and limits creativity (?)

Sony Alph 230 got 4 stars
Olympus E-520 4 stars
Nikon D3000 got 5 stars and the 'Best buy' award
Canon EOS 1000D got 4 stars
Nikon D5000 - 5 stars and a 'Best buy award'
Sony Alpha 380 - 4 stars
Canon EOS450D 5 stars and a 'best buy award'
Canon EOS500D - 4 stars

not sure why the Kx was the only 5 star camera not to ge a best buy award

The Independent 5th December

here

For me
I think it is a lovely composition, I like the way you have the curves of the fence and canal wall coming from the bottom left and the eyes flow into the image from here, rest on the boats and buildings and then explore the rest of the image but I do think it is either slightly too much contrast or over saturated, cant make my mind up which or both.