Just recently got back from a holiday in Madeira and have finally got round to sorting out everything, took over 950 photos and narrowed my them down to 25.  Put them all in a gallery rather than post them all here.  All taken with a D50 with either a 50mm F1.8 or a Nikon 18-200 VR.

http://rcram.bounceme.net/madeira2007/index.html

One more as well, a friend thought it would look good in black and white, so I obliged, does show a bit vignetting though.

http://rcram.bounceme.net/madeira2007/ReflectionsofaTree(DSC_3541)B&W.jpg

Thoughts, criticisms etc?

Ive been holding off getting a flickr account for some reason, might see about signing up for one later on today and getting them uploaded.  Might be my job for lunchtime at work

Got the reflection one on the last evening we were there, just wandering about the grounds and got it, quite pleased with it myself.

Im sooooo lazy right about now ... just had two crusty rolls filled with .... topside beef, danish salami, fresh mozarella and fresh coleslaw ... topped off by a Frijj - Fudge Brownie Flavour ... actually feel a bit sick now!   :mrgreen:

Love the cliffs one

As Mrt says put a couple directly into the thread for all the lazy people

Apparently theyre the 2nd highest sea cliffs in Europe something like over 600m whatever it is its a long way down lol

I was expecting cake but that looks even better, some nice pics there matey.

These are not orchids!

http://rcram.bounceme.net/madeira2007/slides/Orchids%201%20(DSC_3015).html

Easy way to tell, orchids have a single stem in the middle and six petals, the lowest is often modified to become a platform for insects landing. They do not have separate stamens and style. I have seen these things, they used to grow in my garden a very long time ago, just cant remember their damn name. The second flower pic is a slipper orchid which is so obvious that it couldnt be anything else.

The rest are orchids though and overall the pics are nice.

No, but all those plant pictures were taken in an orchird garden http://www.madeiraorchid.com/ so I just clumped them all together, Ill change the name if it makes you happy lol.

I was expecting cake but that looks even better, some nice pics there matey.

lol the Madeira cake over theres nowt like what we get here, more like a small round brown stodgy thing, our Madeira cakes better lol.

Some nice snaps there, though the colours look a little flat & washy to me.
Thats probably just me though as Im a fan of Vibrant colours.
Pity the peacock wasnt being proud

Some do look a little flat, but then Ive not done any post processing on them bar the odd dust bunny removal, and the borders of course.

Aye if the peacock had been proud that would have made some good pictures but it wasnt playing ball, still quite happy with what Ive got off it though.

My criticism would be a distinct lack of nubile yound semi-clad yound ladys. :-/

I like your thinking, however I didnt want to get arrested lol