[silversnapper1]

Ok, back again now.

The gull - You have succeeded in your aim of a narrow dof and, as you say, it may well have been better with the birds legs included. I would possibly go as far as to say that if you were a little bit further away you could have used some of the wall as a lead in and still achieved a similar effect and improved the composition.

Newquay - You are on the right lines here again including the foreground interest but again I feel that your aperture should be around the f11 mark to get sharpness throughout the scene. You have mentioned sloping horizons previously and this affects all of the seascape shots and, as you know, this can easily be corrected.

The two images of the house - the first one is nicely composed as the house is around the top right third. Unfortunately, I don't think that the fence does a lot for this one as it takes your eye out of the scene. The second is not quite so well composed with only part of the house in the scene and, if you could have turned or walked a little to your right to get it in the top third it would have been a lot better.

I love the composition of the waterfall and the long exposure effect. Again, I think that it lacks a little bit of depth and a small er aperture (higher f number) would benefit it making the whole scene sharp.

Overall, they are good images in the making. You have the right idea but I don't think that any of us can know it all, I certainly don't, and these are only my opinions on the images. Hope that this helps.