Thanks all for your thoughts and comments - I have boosted the brightness on the two eucalypt images, didn't realise they were quite so dark. There is indeed a remnant of colour in the 'monos', and that was intentional.

The cropping - not sure what you meant there Bob? I placed the flower centre on one of the 'thirds' intersections, FWIW.

Wing Power

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Part of a metal round thing stuck on a building...

[IMG]http://i772.photobucket.com/albums/yy9/i_berg/Bush/_IGP1666-2R.jpg[/IMG]

(The building is a shed built in the late 19th century, with end walls made of cane-grass)

Second Class

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I suppose any zoom is hardly likely to compare favourably size-wise, with any prime, FA Ltd or not!

Flowers are more usually associated with their colours - so I have two in colour and their counterparts here.

Question is - how do the counterparts fare against their colour cousins?

Eucalypt colour
[IMG]http://i772.photobucket.com/albums/yy9/i_berg/Broken%20Drought/_IGP1970-1R.jpg[/IMG]

Eucalypt ii
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Wildflower colour
[IMG]http://i772.photobucket.com/albums/yy9/i_berg/Broken%20Drought/_IGP1960-1R.jpg[/IMG]

Wildflower ii
[IMG]http://i772.photobucket.com/albums/yy9/i_berg/Broken%20Drought/_IGP1960-1-2R.jpg[/IMG]

C&C welcome, as always.

A couple of images from what was once a natural swamp - it had been dry for 10 - 15 years due to lack of rain. Thankfully, this has been an excellent season. It won't bring back the many thousands of river red gums that have died, but these ones will pull through and flourish.

[IMG]http://i772.photobucket.com/albums/yy9/i_berg/Broken%20Drought/_IGP7115-1R.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i772.photobucket.com/albums/yy9/i_berg/Broken%20Drought/_IGP7113-1R.jpg[/IMG]

Both with the K10 and 50-135, in the rain (hence the bubbles on the surface).

C&C welcome, as always.

Er... that would make Oggy Stew - correct?

on the Muckleford siding, Central Goldfields - Kx & FA31, in the rain.

Waiting
[IMG]http://i772.photobucket.com/albums/yy9/i_berg/Victorian%20Goldfields%20Railway/_IGP1997-1R.jpg[/IMG]

Not for Resuscitation
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C&C welcome as always.

I agree with Peter, Zav.
I also think No 1 had potential, but you may have been better off getting a little closer to the fern?