That looks sharp enough to me as well.

I've got a selection of these - send me which e-mail address you want them sent to and I'll send you them.

You just paste your image into the border.

You can alter your filtering in Internet Options, so probably changing the level of security will do the trick.

If you plan to publish the photographs then you will have to pay a fee, but for most amateur photographers this won't be an issue.

Taking an image of a NT property from publicly accessible land would be OK, even a private owner can't control what happens off their property.

I agree it's a bit off as in one sense when people donate property to the NT, often to satisfy Death Duties, it amounts IMHO to a kind of state theft, but that's probably another issue altogether.

I wonder if you are our most remote member!

Welcome to the forum!

To be fair to the NT, I've never had any problem arranging indoor photography by appointment.

Outdoor photography is fine anyway.

Totally agree!

Nice images and we must get there and see for ourselves.

The nearest coffee shop is quite small, but you'll see it if you look a few degrees to your right as you face the steps, about 10 feet away!

Actually I'm not so sure there was anything beautiful about this episode. A couple of people making a commotion about nothing might well attract the attention of security, who are there to do job. Effectively security were being baited and it wasn't a pretty sight.

This is a million miles away from anyone reasonable being prevented from taking photographs, which is what would normally be of concern here.

If you fix a newspaper to a wall and set up your camera on a sturdy tripod, focusing very carefully and making sure the camera is square to the subject, then you will be able to judge the sharpness at different apertures. Compare it to another lens that you like to give a more scientific result.

Use the 2 second delayed action to avoid camera movement of any kind.

The images you have posted are difficult to judge as the method of resizing you have used will also be a factor, as will the amount of Unsharp Mask given. If you aren't sharpening your images in Photoshop or similar that may be the problem. All digital images start off slightly soft.

If you don't use Photoshop then dial in +1 sharpness in camera instead.