And now for the link (Monkey!)

http://www.thelisters.co.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-2

Ok....

Nice shot with good colours and contrasts. Good details too. Now for the
'buts'....

Try to keep verticals vertical and horiszontals horizontal (unless you're
doing it for effect - in which case it needs to be exagerated in my opinion)
Try to keep any distracting objec ts away from the sides and corners of the
image. In this one you have the roof of a vehicle in the lower left corner.
Removing it would help considerably as it would emphasise the wall more.

Other than that a very pleasant shot!
Try signing up to a 'photographers website' where you can post images and
get feedback. www.usefilm.com for example. Be very clear if you do that you
are equally loooking for negative comments as well as positive though. Look
at others images to see what other people are saying too, and analyse what
you like about great shots you see, and why others rate shots highly.

But most importantly, enjoy yourself!

A.

The colors and composition are good.  Likewise, the lighting is nice -
very expressive of a certain atmosphere.  A very pleasant photo.
There's a good balance between the elements of the subject.  It's got
a good leading line that takes your eye into the frame.  Lots of
texture and mood.  Very nice.

The only suggestions I have are technical.  First, pay attention to
your horizon line, and try to make it truly horizontal.  Exaggerating
the tilt of the frame can be used to good effect (if not overused),
but being a few degrees off horizontal just looks a bit sloppy.  The
only other thing I would pick on you for would be the extra stuff in
the edges of the frame.  Consider cropping tighter (or zooming
in-camera) to eliminate things like the corner of the vehicle in the
lower left corner and the shape (streetlight?) about a third of the
way down the right side.  Always look around the edges of the
viewfinder, though if your finder doesn't provide full coverage, you
may need to crop later.

It's a very nice photo in terms of lighting and color.  I disagree with the
other poster who said it looked underexposed - it looked fine to me.
(Sometimes I wonder what exactly is "underexposed" and "overexposed".  Many
people define this pretty strictly according to the histogram, but
histograms aren't smart and certainly aren't artistic.  Very often these
terms are subjective, and I myself under and overexpose many shots
intentionally - to my eye, they are perfectly exposed that way.  This seems
to be one of those kinds of shots.)  The blue sky is lovely and it looks
like you waited for a low sun to hit the building facades, providing a very
pleasing "warm" light.  The detail is extraordinary.

I have a couple of issues with the composition.  I like your angle, I think
that looks much better than it probably would have face-on.  But there are
distracting elements around the edge of the frame, especially along the
bottom (red rails) and the bottom left corner (top of car).  (There is also
a lamp post on the right edge - all of this could probably be Photoshopped
out.)  As I view the shot, I want to see it from a higher angle, so that the
camera is more even with the top of the wall, and the tops of the buildings
don't disappear until they're much farther to the left (right now, the roofs
disappear about halfway through).  I don't know if it's possible to get more
elevated at that location, but if so, I'd go back and reshoot it some more,
trying some different vertical angles.

Your other photos are nice also.  Nice work - keep it up!

A point I have noticed too, is maybe I was standing too close, and zoomed
back a bit far, and hence, got that curving effect of some of the walls..
Rookie mistake, I guess...

Will look at the suggested websites and maybe get some more comments. The
other photos are really just family type things, but I do try and take
them properly.

The photo: http://www.thelisters.co.uk/displayimage.php?album=1&pos=2

That's impossible to take well, I think, because I wanted to get the long
lane going down to the river, as well as the river in the shot. But it
seems if I meter on the river, the lane is too dark, and if I meter on the
lane, the water area is too bright..

Is there a way to do this?