I think you got a very good price for a cracking lens. 2&3 are rather well timed but I like 1 best too for the lovely composition.

Welcome Adrian. Nice to have another Adrian. Regards, Adrian.

It's been a nice week, photographically speaking; won the weekly comp and got my 50th acceptance in the PPG:




I owe a big thanks to fellow users of the site. I've learnt an awful lot from here since I took up photography properly last Autumn, from the discussion and critique threads and from analysing a lot of excellent images here and in the links provided in your signatures.

Brilliant. Never mind the sparkler, how did you get the eyes?

Sorry folks, I've only just realised I should set up a comments thread.

Shame I can't enter myself - it's p******* down and I've not much to do.

Number four is terrific.

I like them all and my favourite is the magicians.

The ducks are a giggle. I like the otter - scope for a crop there?

She may have come across some of my relatives then - there was a street full of them. But they're gone now. (They did have tractors though, I'm not that old).

The colder the better for observing. I always prefer the Leonids and Geminids.

I had great times working in the hop farms and oast houses around Selling as a lad. And have consumed more than my fair share of Master Brew.

Saw plenty of shooting stars - but no good photos - too dewey out there. I did take a couple of long exposures but they came out pretty noisy so it's difficult to tell what's what. There are plenty of them discernible, but it's not worth posting. The peak was last night. An easier sight to photograph will be the moon and planets conjunction after sunset tonight. It's very cloudy here today so I'm not hopeful.