Cathedral Arch and Boucherie are my favourites, but Blown Render has potential for showing the 'soldiers' (bricks on end) above what must have been a door or window underneath. That one might be worth trying as a mono too?

A good series for mine. There's nothing scruffy about any of these images.

I thought the ones around La Mancha were the best!

Emma, the second shot is head and shoulders above the others for me. The BW processing really suits the sky.

Thanks A-G - on reflection that focus would have been better on the coloured stump part, in the 1st.

I will have a think about the abstract one - I want that to be better than what it is. The more I look at it now, the less I like it...

Thanks for looking.

Andrew,

These are very pleasant trees in every respect bar one - they shed large limbs without warning. It's a habit they share with other eucalypts.
Thus, they tend to be better in parks, and not around houses.

Thanks Rodrigues - the camera is a K10D, and the lens a Pentax FA50 f1.4.

Cheers Mat, thank you.

And Andrew - there's the best of both worlds here - bloody cold and bloody hot!

Wot? Is it over 40 degrees C???

I revisited this yesterday, this time with the FA-50 on the Kx.

Dead wood
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Late return
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Ribbon
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Forgotten beauty
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Rotunda
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3 and 4 are a nod to Pauly's work, while 5 is a nod to images Kris had posted at an earlier time.

Thoughts and comments welcome.

Any thoughts on these please? Do they 'work'?

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relief - tree-trunk, e. citrodora
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Thoughts and comments welcome.

The coastal shots and the one of Beaumaris Castle are superb Simon, esp. given they are through perspex.