Thanks for the replies.

Anvh - for you a wider angle shot below

haydnw - I hadnt briefed the subjects to stay still and so it took about 30 exposures to get the shot.
The work here is drilling 3 metre holes in which steel anchors are grouted in place and then rockfall netting installed.

I have not been taking many pictures of late, something I intend to rectify, but here is one I took at work a couple of weeks ago.
K20d 4 secs at f9.0

Also looks to me as though its had some cloning done on the horizon around the head / beak area perhaps to remove a stray tree or bush which would have lessened the impact?

I also have a Manfrotto 190XPROB, when I bought my K20d I was looking for a decent sturdy tripod with plenty of availability of different heads and reasonably portable, the legs are very adjustable. This tripod fits the bill for me and is well priced.
I take it everywhere and strap it to my rucksack when heading into the mountains.
You could buy the carbon fibre version but they are quite pricey and I am still fit enough to carry the extra weight.
You may wish for a taller tripod occasionally in which case another model maybe better but I think for normal use this is a good option.

Nice
red Arrows were in Gibralter on the 17th I believe I was hoping to be there long enough to see them but got sent back to UK early

Health and safety is taken pretty seriously in Spain.
That aside though, they have chopped the easy access end of the walkway off so as only climbers can get access, to get to the far end where access is easier you have to walk through a few railway tunnels and then descend a steep slope, cross a river and then climb a steep slope so the average tourist is not likely to get there.

A steel cable has been installed for the full length to bolts so as long as you have a harness with 'Cows Tails' you can clip on and if it did collapse you would probably survive.
The second picture is a self portrait on my first recce here where I am not wearing a harness and the 12 second timer kept timing out before i made the climb over the gap and I had to keep trying faster until I got the shot. The first picture was the second trip where we did the walkway wearing harnesses and abseiled off at the far end.

Pentaxkid37
I do have some more pics though all of the same bit of work really, I will post a couple more if I get chance.

George L I dont disagree with you and thanks for honest opinion, I was a bit lazy and didnt bother with photography until I missed the sunshine, but i shall try a little more with conrast and levels.

No sunshine this day, but it was my last chance to get some pictures.
Not much PP, just a little saturation boost and some unsharp mask as far as I recall.

Camino Del Rey - El Chorro Spain

Not such a great shot but its such an amazing place I though you may like to see it.

I think its pretty difficult to get in with getty these days and beginners to stock photography are unlikely to succeed.
Alamy on the other hand will accept photo's from anybody. Having said that, they do of course have quality control, to pass initial QC you need to submit 4 full size images which are put through Alamy's rather mysterious Image quality tests.
The trick with getting through this is not to get creative, submit 4 boring images which are technically perfect, in focus and preferably having been taken using a tripod, do not sharpen the image, do not submit anything where you have used any deliberate speed blur or D.O.F. isolation or anything, the IC testers at Alamy will not allow for this no matter how good a shot it is, they wil follow procedure and it will fail.
Once you have passed initial IC the you can send in the more creative stuff. From here on they test either one shot or 1 in 10 per submission (cant remember) if just one shot fails they will reject the whole batch no matter how good. So its probably not a godd idea to send in a hundred shots together but send in batches of 10 or so at a time.

For beginners it may be easier to use Photographers Direct.
Here you submit shots for initial QC and from then on it all gets easier, you only submit shots in small file sizes, the potential buyer is put in touch with you and you strike your own deal.
The also email you with requests for shots, though many of these are rather obscure that you are unlikely to have in stock and the offered fee is unlikely to pay for a trip to Rome to photograph an asian family outside the vatican, for example. These can be filtered so you get more relevant requests, but they are still not often viable.
However, it is a good easy system for beginners to Stock to get into until ready to move up to Alamy or whatever