Is it fully submerged or are those tufts poking through the surface tension? Just wondering how it breathes?

All of these have been good - and they're getting better

That first one really brings out the determination of those hardy souls that built those walls. Straight up, straight over and on ...........
I never cease to boggle at their work, especially when it's there in front of me.

Love the way you've isolated it

You will get a lot of ideas from the UrbanExploration lot at 28 days later link

#3 is absolutely timeless. If it had been done in sepia only the bit of the locomotive's number would have given it away.

Didn't know you had a Helios 44/2 but even they tend to have the main subject in focus. Looks like the shutter managed to fire while the lens was still in motion - do you have it set up to permit this?
One tree FOUR cows and two crows

I have wondered about this in relation to Photocrowd. You see two images that, to all intents and purposes, are of similar quality. One gets raved at and the other ignored. On the other hand, their manner of annonymous rating in competitions, with thousands of raters judging them, appears to be reasonably robust. Another gambit I have seen is for someone to swamp the daily feed with image after image (to fix a style in one's mind?) and then enter a competition with a similar one at the final moment.

For me, the sweeping lines in No.5 are quite lovely and it's good to see the A70 - 210 at work (must get mine out some more).

You've put it onto my wanna go list