Thanks for the positive feedback
I've only ever really shown my pics to friends and family before so I've always basically ignored any praise, and assumed the worst!
I was actually really disappointed with pic number 2 as I tried to get it from the front a few seconds before, but new camera syndrome hit and I had it in all kinds of the wrong modes!!! I bought it specifically for this trip to avoid carting my SLR round, but never really got much time to get used to it.
I shot in Raw+Jpeg and these are just the jpegs with a little bit of processing. I'm still on hol so did it on my laptop on the beach, once I get home I'll start with the Raw files and maybe post up a few more to see what peoples thoughts are on them.
Thanks for the tip for night time building shots, I was intending to go to B+H and buy a tripod while i was there, but never got round to it
I do feel like I'm starting to get the hang of the technical side of things, it's just trying to put it into practice consistently that I'm struggling with now
thanks again for the feedback/advice