And again here Gwyn - these are so much better than the Redwood Rays attempts of mine . Well done.

6 and 7 capture it for me Mike, but that's not taking anything away from the whole series.

Well done Kris (and congrats on the happy day from 3 months ago!).

Good to see that you are getting to grips with the colours and the light Gary - they are indeed different! I like the way you've captured the 'big sky' over there.

That's actually quite interesting - thanks Gareth and Tim for pointing it out.

I've reset the image in question, and even the original raw file looks to have quite 'nervous' bokeh in that region of the crop.

I've then gone to the next image in the series, and lo! Same stuff! Lacking in inspiration for now, the best suggestion I can offer is that it may be a combination of focal length, aperture / dof, and the particular background pattern created by the leaves on the willow trees behind. The camera clearly doesn't like it. It's the same lens / camera combo I've used in many other scenarios (some of which were posted here as jpg crops too) - none of those was affected.

Hmm - maybe a K5 might solve this...

Edit - Tim: Congrats on the new i-Pad - happy:

From our West coast, mid-September...

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C&C welcome as always.

I can see why you were dancing around James - you should be happy.

Sharpness and colour are what strike me also.

Both with 50-135 Gareth. The 202 mm is the 35mm equivalent.