Milk or water? Sugar or salt or neither? Jam, honey, sugar, golden syrup, banana or nothing (or all ) on top? Runny or thick enough to plaster a wall?

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Killing time with the Q-S1 + 02 and 06 while waiting for Mrs L to emerge from a medical appointment. It was only a little bit of woodland and in a semi-urban setting but still had many of the elements of a big wood except on a very small scale. And spring had sprung. Leaves bursting everywhere and lots of different greens before they all merge into one generic, tired colour. Even the ambient light was green after filtering through and reflecting from the greenery.

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I offered to make sandwiches and a flask of coffee and put a garden chair in front of the TV so Mrs Lubbyman could get the full experience of hanging around waiting for the events of the day to start while still in the comfort of her own home. She was not amused .

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Like a good TV drama series - slow and quiet start, pace gradually builds up, culminates with a fast and dramatic finale . The final doses of jollop didn't taste anything like as bad as I'd been led to believe - I've had beer that tasted worse. As for their consequences, I've had worse stomach bugs - at least it was only one end of the digestive tract and I wasn't feeling grotty throughout. And for light amusement on the final day I listened to the song of the colorectal surgeon (look it up on Youtube).

Just one thing I forgot to do on the Big Day - ask the bloke with the probe whether he was using a Pentax lens....

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Lubbyman is happy today. Having failed the bowel cancer screening test a couple of months ago, I've just been told that the results of the subsequent internal examination (ooo-er matron :shock are negative. So you can expect me to be around for a while yet . And in spite of all the claims that 'the NHS is broken', this part of it definitely isn't - I was very impressed with what I experienced.

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Thanks, yes that's definitely a protrusion. Perception's a strange thing. I was sure that it was a protrusion in the original image - until I glanced at it again and it looked like a hollow. And after that it jumped from one to the other quite randomly. Perhaps I need new glasses ... .

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Just noticed an interesting visual ambiguity in the picture - is the big red circular thing a protrusion or a hollow? It's a well known optical illusion, of course. But I've no idea how to light a picture such as this so as to make it unambiguous .

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Stupendous! Composition, lighting. focus, transition to OOF areas, all spot on. Ultra-macro at its best .

Did you go hunting for a spore capsule in just the right state or was it luck? (I know, I know, that's an unfair question...)

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Thanks. No objection at all to you playing with it, Peter. I was wondering about lightening the candle and leaving the pillars as in the original but didn't have time to try it (the set was processed as a distraction during the run-up to a medical appointment that I wasn't looking forward to ).

Thanks. Yes, you may be right about the darkness around the window. What I'd really like to do is to bring up the candlesticks and cross, I hardly noticed them when pressing the shutter button but seeing them on screen they seem to be rather more important for the picture than I realised at the time. And you're right about the last picture looking like it needs a clockwise rotation. I had aligned the top of the candle (as the centre of the picture) with a vertical grid line, but having looked more closely I'm now thinking that the candle is slightly bent.

Now that the medical appointment is over (and with a rather better result than it might have been) I'll have another go at this set - and also some more pictures from the cathedral .

Steve