Thank you again!
I thought I'd finish with one of my favourites - a 'right time, right place' shot!
Again with the good old Z1-P on Velvia and a Sigma 70-300 APO. it was published in an AVA photography book on Lighting

Early morning November 2001 Richmond Park;

Agreed. Keep meaning to go out on a proper fungi foray - probably missed the best this year though

Wonderful - I think...

Thanks Simon and Barrie. I must have another go with the digital camera.
Barrie - I found doing multiple exposure easier with the old Z1-P. It had a multi-exposure feature that was easily accessible.

The digital cameras have the feature buried in the menu system, and once selected its easy to inadvertently cancel it!

Here is day 4;



Means a lot to me this. I was staying in a retreat place and this was in the garden. A night-time shot with full-ish moon. Taken just after midnight

When I came across this image, I was wondering why haven't I tried it with digital - especially as one can keep trying and see the result straight away!

Thanks David and Gary. I actually like the composition and punch of the first one but need to have another go at getting the shadow depth and colour better.

Ok - day 3. An in camera effect - a double exposure. This was taken back in 1997 with the Z1-P and 28-80 lens on Velvia 50
First exposure - focussed at -0.7stop. Second exposure - deliberately out of focus -1stop

Thank you again for your comments. Its interesting that the first one of the viaduct is preferred by the majority; I thought that the HDR effect would have been less to taste. I agree with you Simon - I had tried wrestling a bit more with the colours but went round in circles making it worse, Will have to try again! Having said that, the colour version of the second one has slightly naff colours in the brickwork IMO.

I agree that the foreground of the second image could be cropped a bit as it is dead space. As far as cropping the foreground on the first one is concerned, that is more open to debate it would seem.

And sorry Adrian - obviously no joy yet in being able to move back?

Yes - this is very good. Isolated against space. As gwing says, its difficult not to associate this with a spacecraft and the antenna pointing toward earth on the side! That MX-1 seems a very capable little camera to me!

Thank you for your comments - and I could have done all 5 based around this pier! However, I thought I would go for variety - not just in subject but also in technique and type. So here goes for today - a 'love it' or 'loathe it' subject - HDR !

3 images of Balcombe Viaduct - at sunrise with the low sun casting shadows through the arches

image 1 - I was initially just going to post this one - 3 shots bracketed;



However, I thought the next image in colour and B&W would actually be good to post as well - a 5 shot HDR
image 2;



image 3;



All exported from LR to Photomatix Pro and back to LR