All excellent but my favourite is no.4, and if zoomed in, in effect cropped, I see perfect balance of bokeh and subject. IMHO. Wish I could get such sharp shots.

Thanks Spad for the tips, I may well have a go when the weather improves!

Woops, on't tripod ( did try handheld too but not sharp at below ~15th sec ?) , ISO 800, f13 and shot;

4 sec for No. 1
2 secs for No. 2
3 secs for No. 3.

It was a bit of a trial run with this lens and I wanted to keep a high f stop hoping for more starlights (which didn't quite workout) , and took a few at different shutter speeds. Then chose which I liked best, I will admit to just lifting the curve ever so slightly to the shadows. However they look good (to me) SOOC but I thought maybe too dark for here in the forum??

K1 mkII and 28-105mm dfa WR SOOC, all comments welcome

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Number three does it for me, the grass and leaves plus a bit of sky too.

Neil,
I used 1 & 1/2 stop underexposure, 1/180th sec and IIRC still on my tripod, I took many shots, some with a Grad filter but when the sun went behind clouds or down fully I removed it. This one probably had the grad filter on, f11, manual, ISO 100, metering=multi-segment, White balance = cloudy, custome image set to 'Bright'.
I tried various exposures and then pick and choose, highlights typically get blown but wondered if I could play in PP, all shot using Liveview BTW with 2 sec timer, this shot was SOOC.

This evening at Mountbatten, Plymouth with K1 mkII;

But you have only just joined the forum? A hello and goodbye then..... sorry to see you leave Pentax. No offence intended or mischief.

Love the Street shots and the last one of the stars - would be nice in colour too showing the stars different colours.