No.1 works for me, too - the composition and fishy effect seem to work well together, there's a nice flow from front left to the lighthouse at far right.

The last one is my pick of the bunch for the lighthouse tucked away and hanging on the edge of the land with nothing but the vast sea beyond.

No. 2 is an interesting idea but doesn't quite work for me, the composition doesn't have the flow from foreground to distance that's present in No. 1. There's also a distracting blurred line along the out of focus cliff edges, no doubt a product of the lens but once noticed my eye keeps being drawn to it.

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Well, did you manage it? Or are you currently suffering the "or..."?

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Neither did I. Then I got married. A year or so later I was told to learn to drive because aparently new mothers don't drive themselves home from maternity hospitals.

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Did anyone watch the Great British Photography Challenge on BBC4 last night? If so, what did you think of it from the point of view of:
1. TV informative entertainment
2. Photography

And do you intend to watch the rest of the series?

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Welcome back. Cycling by choice or because someone has told you that they need the car more than you do?

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Thanks. There were also a few camelias looking sorry for themselves.

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Please keep interesting weather and chilly fronts to your side of the country. Ever since I gave my wife the gazebo she wanted for her birthday, the weather has ensured that it has stayed in its original packaging.

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Or to put it another way, there is only one reason for a full frame sensor rather than medium format, it makes it cheaper...

I think there's more to having different sizes of sensor than just price.

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Last Monday was the annual visit to Minterne Gardens to see the rhododendrons and azaleas in their full glory. But after a weekend of wind and rain, a lot of the glory was on the ground. So rather than pictures of the surviving flowers, here are some of those that fell foul of the weather. And to finish off, there's a near abstract of a bush draped in moss.

The camera and lens were K20D + DA16-45mm - a couple of hours of pure nostalgia with my first DSLR and the lens that came with it. It has its technical limitations compared with the K3 + 16-85mm that would have otherwise come with me, but the feel of the camera and the lens that expands as the focal length shrinks brought back a lot of memories.

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Thank you. I am not alone in what I like!

Steve