Those soft repetitions and angles are lovely, yet bright enough to reveal the textures. Super shot.

You've really given us something to aspire to. Superb shot.

Xanthoria parietina. Bit of a mouthful and you are right Roger. It is an eye-smacking yellow. Beautifully isolated sample of one we are more accustomed to seeing covering the branches of hedges and a lot of trees.

You are right to be pleased with that. It's lovely.

1. Borage is also known as the bee bush since its flowers are irresistible to them. We can eat them too, as it happens. They make great salad decorations.
An approaching bee faces a problem, however, from that purple pointy bit. It has to grab hold but the point shoves straight into its tummy!



2. It has to hang on upside down and get its proboscis up into the receptacles on the pointy bit's sides but, as you can see, there isn't much to hold on to.



3. The result is so fast I couldn't capture it. The bee falls off, upside down and and downwards, so out of control it looks as if the flower has violently
ejected it ! This particular bee looks odd because it is flying backwards. Having fallen off twice, It is being more careful about how to proceed.



4. They get there eventually.



Taken with a Pentax K1 and a Pentax-FA 80 - 320. My copy is a really good one and I love using it for these pseudo macro shots.

5.

You can get a working Weston Master V for a tenner on E-Bay. What more do you want? Mine is still chugging along quite accurately and very happily.

On the odd occasion I've found to use anything other than the center spot, by the time I've faffed about trying to get it to change or work or hit the right buttons, the action has long disappeared. I accept that is down to me and lack of practice, but I can't see the point. Similarly, I've never been able to get my K3ii to work with a flu card and neither will the K1 work with Image Sync installed on my mobile. I therefore consider them all to be useless gimmicks. As far being useful cameras, both the K3ii and the K1 are wonderful machines that I enjoy using - but you can keep all the knick knacks, thank you.

4 is certainly very unusual and it works well whereas I found the others a bit too busy.

I'm in the same position with mine. I tend to use the Takumar 1.4 instead. As to the F zooms, the 35-105 tops the 35-135 every time by a huge margin.

Well done Derek. I hope it's the first of many for you.