2 is quite lovely, having an almost impressionist feel to it and 3 makes a wonderful abstract.

Highly recommended. You won't be disappointed if it's anything like mine.

The pebbles and the upright timbers get my vote, but only just, since the whole set captures one's interest

The older F 35-105mm can also do surprising things like this. How nice to pull such unexpected goodies out of the bag when you went for something quite different. Is "the look" so surprising, since I presume the macro end is the long end?

Just shows what can be found if (a) you can get up early enough (b) you can climb up high enough and (c) you know what to do with it when you get there.

What fantastic reflections and lighting.

That is similar to a number of Meyer Optik offerings - especially for Exaktas. I think the designed purpose of the 'protrusion' is to act as a depth of field viewer because the metering and stop down is done by the camera when you release the shutter. They are meant to be wide open until that point so, without it, you can't check the DoF directly. The button is often on the right of the lens, so to hold it down AND press the shutter release involves some manual gymnastics!

Thank you Andy. It has produced mixed results to be sure.

How do you control the aperture on a flektogon? I've often been tempted but I only see the traditional m42 pin sticking out the back. There doesn't appear to be an A/M switch and they are not pre-set.

Thank you. That's what they will be called from here on!
I played about with various crops for this one precisely because of the darkness and (to me) this one came out best. I take on board the distracting highlights and I will see if they can be cloned out. That tilt screen on the K1 really lets you get down to earth level ! Here is another version (with partial removal of distractions).