I kindof thort it wudof been!

How teachers can hold their heads up and claim to do a good job is beyond me these days. Some of the spelling and grammar you encounter is abysmal.

Those are gorgeous. I've never seen that variety before.

So many verticals and horizontals making several compartments are all held together by that simple, overall colour scheme. Super composition.
Going back to it, I just noticed there are two of everything - something else to make it hang together so well.

If lockdown has an up side it's got to be the time and motivation to get all your lenses out. From what I have discovered, this
one has at least three variants (four if you include the K 135). Of the Takumars, the final version with eight aperture leaves is
reckoned to be the best. I put it onto the K5 to give that an airing too. It produces wonderful, richly saturated colours and it is
sharp from the largest apertures. None of these are above f4.

1. Who says weeds are unattractive? This lot, lined up in a crack, make quite a nice composition.



2. There have been a few bluebells of late so here are some white ones and some pink ones.



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4. Remember that this is a 135mm and certainly not a macro lens. The minimum focusing distance is just over five feet.
I intentionally went for the solitary bee on the clematis but I wasn't even aware of the ant on the peaone, which was
shot from about 12 feet away. It's resolving power is considerable, even wide open.



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My apologies for all the flowers recently but I'm stuck with the back garden. It at least lets me use my collection of
old glass.

At least they left you a few to photograph. The clover is a nice one. Common as muck and much more lovely !

I presumed that you had more foodplant and so could rescue the stem bearing the egg - we've got bags of the stuff round here. I keep looking for caterpillars on them but no luck, even though there are orange tips flying.

Mention of bees and sawing and hammering: Mrs. wozhere bought a very pretty, woven cane 'bee hotel' filled with dozens of short lengths of bamboo cane. It had a hook to hang it where the solitary bees might find it. So I hung it up.

Then it peed it down with rain for the last few days and the insides of it became quite wet and not a place where any bee would go to lay its eggs! I have therefore made a bespoke bee hotel to house and protect the first bee hotel from the rain and damp.

The glue is still drying so I will post before and after images in due course.

I presume you have removed temptation? It's a long fellow for sure! Those liquid blobs are quite remarkable - more so with the backlighting.

Welcome to PentaxUser Ken. (should have put that on your intro post). The K1 is a nice camera and if you are going to use the 500mm you will appreciate the flippy screen!

Hope you have lots of pictures too - welcome to a very friendly bunch of people.