Wonderful series. You must have been really chuffed to be able to follow the process.

Right place - right time

If I knew what one of those was .................?

It might be spring madness but it's worth it!

I just wish Bristol was a lot nearer to the Midlands!
If that was a taster, the main course must be sumptuous.

Just press the green button! Then try and find an M or A series 28mm - people fight over them on Ebay.

#2 is my favourite -- it's a really nice composition

For macro, just don't get hung up on auto focus - it's next to useless. The best MO is to get an approximate manual focus and then rock your entire body forwards and back to find the most effective focus point. An A series 50mm on the end of tubes is an ideal combination, as David has shown, above. If you can find an A series 50mm macro then you will get stunning performance from the macro end AND the everyday, normal 50mm end. It's an expensive beast but worth every penny.
Sticking with the A series, the 35 -70mm is a good walkabout lens. It also comes in two flavours - one is a push- pull zoom and the other has a traditional zoom ring. They are both very good (and better than the 18-55).

They may well be hard to photograph but the final one is the best of the lot IMHO. The first one where they are canoodling is a standard (but nice) swan pose. The other one is telling a story - big time.

And Yes, I still have a Weston with its invercone and it works a treat. It cost an arm and a leg way back then.

The second one is lovely