Perhaps try two different photo's then. One with the stars over the low distant hills and just water in the foreground and a second photo of the building and sink hole during the morning, day or early evening, whichever suits your artistic taste best as this subject looks like it would be a very interesting subject in its own right. Probably suit monochrome as well. Just a thought!

Maybe some kind soul might loan you a nice new KIII Mono to experiment with.

A tad pricey @ £269.00 plus postage but then they don't appear on the market all that often. link

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Interesting set of images from a camera with clearly great potential for those who love monochrome. Many, many years ago I enrolled on a short photography course at college which concentrated on black and white images and processing. In those days with such an abundance of colour film, Kodachrome slide film and the like, I wondered why anyone would seriously want to shoot in boring black and white when we saw the world in vivid color. That course opened my eyes in more ways than I could have imagined to a whole new dimension in photography and image representation. I've never looked back since!

Very nice Spad. Maybe a touch of light painting on the building and sink hole to give them a bit more definition and interest but not so much that would over power your night sky.

Second installment of this series for anyone interested:- link

Lovely images indeed from a hidden gem of a lens that IMHO equals if not betters the triotar. I can't swear to that of course as I don't have a triotar to compare it with. I do have the 135mm Primotar though and I love it. I'm also fortunate to own two copies of the really lovely little Primotar 50mm f2.8 zebra pod version of its smaller sibling which can produce equally lovely results. I suppose I should sell one... maybe perhaps...!

PS Simon's UTAK (on Youtube link ) describes it as one of his best worst lenses.

Congratulations Gareth.

Oh, and don't worry about your credit card, its sole purpose in life is to be hammered!

Anyway, money is only as good as what you can swap it for. Enjoy your new toy.

It's gone now. Does that mean your Go Fund page was a success then?

Both lovely photo's in their own way. Mike's looks sharp and clinical but Lot's has lovely muted colour with a mysterious other worldly look about it. Couldn't say one is better than the other as they both have their own distinctive merits.

https://www.lcegroup.co.uk/Used/Pentax-300mm-f4-DA*-ED-IF-SDM_370101.html

For anyone who may be interested.