A search of Google [UK] of ‘colour popping images’ today is returning my shot of Ping on page 2 of the hits:

So if you could all search for the image and select it a few hundred thousands times a day, between us we can move him on to page 1 🙂

This is the first time I’ve used my flash with the wide angle lens. I quite like the cutout effect. I took a couple of stabs at the first shot: I was trying something a little more sophisticated, with a reduced saturation, and an extra layer to mix the cut out effect with the unadjusted background. Not really worth the effort to be honest. The black and white looks better:

1/100 sec at F8, ISO 100 at 10mm

1/100 sec at F4, ISO 100 at 10mm

Some snaps from my first trip to Kew Gardens. I printed one of orchid shots using Photobox as an experiment, basically to see what something blown up to A3 would look like. Out of about 7500 pictures that I’ve taken in the last 2 1/2 years, I think I’ve only printed out about 3. Short answer is that it looks pretty good, though the gloss finish is sticking to the glass in the frame that I bought…