Nice, now I'm feeling hungry!

My experience is that doing things for free just generates more people looking for things for free. There has to be a very good reason if I do something and don't charge, which I do sometimes do.

Great place to visit. Don't forget Blists Hill as well, part of the Ironbridge museums.

Projection mapping.....interesting of course but nothing to do with the subject in hand.

I thought this had been put to bed, but the reason for what is being observed, for what it's worth, is that the viewing distance is wrong.

Only short sighted people will be able to do this easily, but get a large (say A3 or bigger) print with the widest rectilinear lens that you like. Looks odd? Now move the eye closer and closer and when you reach the correct viewing distance it will all look perfectly normal.

This is why Rolleiflex close-up portraits seem to loom out at the viewer.

All this talk about lenses changing perspective is a misunderstanding of what is happening. Only viewing distance changes perspective.

It's a terrific lens, and I shoot most of my general images with it.

There are lots of users on this forum and EPZ.

This is very true. Not all marques do this, which contributes I think to some of the "shoot RAW" articles that appear widely. Pentax JPEG output is right on the button.

PS to find this competition, should you be new to the forum, go to the top pull down menus and select Gallery>Competitions and then the one you want to enter.

You've got the theme, so let's see those images that say Blue. Any questions, ask here, but if any discussion then starts here then I will not read it until after the judging, as per the convention.

Good luck!

I'd happily agree with that.

The 85mm f/1.4 was the film format lens of choice for portraits for many people. The 55mm f/1.4 is the modern APS-C equivalent. But 50mm is close enough.