Rod Herdman

Beautiful. The red flowers add nicely to the image.

Great shots Mike. I agree with ozdean, #7 (or #4) are my faves. Cheers

You were indeed privileged to have such a view !

Wow, sorry to hear it's a genuine fault as these original *istD cameras are a treasure and not often coming available. Ii it possible you could access the bent pin with some fine tweezers to ...

What a lovely spot, nicely done!

Hi cjf2, many thanks for your comment. Honestly the standard is so high I'm genuinely happy not to come last !!

I have a number of Pentax film cameras from the years (PZ-1P, Z10, P30, 2xK1000) but the one I use to shoot film now is a Spotmatic ! I do have a hankering for the film KX though . . .

Placed 23^rd in the challenge.

Placed 52^nd in the challenge.

Placed 76^th in the challenge. Eurofighter Typhoon RAF Museum, Hendon

Nice shooting. interesting that you process in Silkypix, then stitch with ICE. For pano's, I have always sticthed first with ICE and then processed the resulting jpeg in Silkypix (ICE recognises ...

Placed 28^th in the challenge. Bournemouth tethered balloon

Well that wasn't what I expected . .   very good though !

Pretty artistic.

Those are certainly good images, well done :-)

Thanks Tom :-)

Placed 3^rd in the challenge. St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City

I have the SMC-M version. To be honest I rarely use it. but when I do, I've always been happy with the results, it's sharp enough for my K5IIs.

Placed 40^th in the challenge.

That's a nice shot. I don't know what the colours were like but I suspect it's benefitted from the BW treatment.