I love the robin, singing his heart out but they are a lovely set throughout

Am I seeing the illustration on the hoarding correctly?
They appear to be placed on stilts -- probably integral garages (or boat houses)

K5s are tumbling in price now as everyone is selling them (to finance the new boy on the street probably). It's a good camera - and it makes superb use of your old Helios lenses too!

lol - guess how I did the one that I put on the main gallery this evening? But with natural light instead of flash since nothing was moving about

Kris is right there. You cannot rely on the green hexagon. In fact it sometimes lights, with a bleep in different places depending whether you are focussing inwards or outwards. The best test is with live view, as described above. You'll be amazed what a difference the tiniest tweak will make. I also find that preset lenses are easier to use (preset to f22, for example) because you can focus wide open and then simply twirl the aperture ring and watch the (stepless) d.o.f. changing before your eyes.

These are really impressive. Having been 'inside' a daffodil myself I know exactly what you have pulled off here. Well done indeed. I'm guessing that most of the ring flash illumination went round the outside of the trumpet, thereby lighting the inside indirectly?

Breaking the rules indeed, but doesn't it work well ? That bank of flowers is lovely too - especially the cyclamen

Nice one (or two). Mega macro lens that one - yours clearly has the 1:1 attachment lens too. I hope Mrs wasp was still dopey rather than grumpy

Sorry - false alarm:
Dunno how but I was working in my archive, external HD and PU was searching the usual drive C/ pictures
It's an odd one because drive C = a couple of clicks and the external drive = a long, long string of clicking to navigate to its depths - not something to do accidentally

I just tried to enter a competition and discovered that the file I just edited and saved for the purpose simply won't appear in the "Browse" search window.
Every other file (incl the original) is present and accessible.
I saved a few others to experiment
No newly saved file is either present or accessible
Trouble is I can't discover which end is at fault. It still recurred with a complete reboot