The first one in particular has an impressive spatial depth and clarity, and a quality that comes through from the lens. Landscapes are not the most obvious natural habitat for that focal length .... now I want to see Pentax come up with a 20mm D FA*!

A belated thank you is in order, sorry guys .... Thanks Philip, Andy, Sry and Peter for your comments here. Sry, I look forward to seeing something from your M135, which no doubt rivals my Tamron for IQ from that era of lens design.

Philip, HOCIR ? I'm afraid I was lost with that, not even an internet search came up with anything .....

Thanks Derek, this sort of thing always gets my photographic spirits up after a spell of doldrums (when it turns out well!). It's a fairly tight focus length on aps-c, but it's fun trying to find squeezed angles and having to move to fit things in, so a worthwhile lesson in excluding the extraneous.

Yeah, that's my closed left eye. It was a very shiny sign with a mirror surface.

Looking again, if I'm going to keep doing this sort of self portrait with such a sharp lens I think I will need to search for a new tool in PhotoShop ....."Wrinkle Blur" !!

Sat Nav got it wrong then. Lucky it didn't tell him to drive right across the stepping stones!

It's a beautiful series of photos though, and a great taster of such a rewarding area, that's probably worth adding ......

Thanks, it's a good way to force some thinking when framing and positioning, that's for sure. That old 135mm has been one of my best finds, in a scondhand shop complete with the adaptor. Because it has the manual/aito aperture switch, it gets more use with basic manual extension tubes for macro things.... Very versatile!

That 1st bird image is fabulous! One things for sure, if I ever went to Wales I wouldn't come back with any shots like that!

Really good to see the K1 and lenses being put through their paces Mike.

Beautiful colour tones and rich exposures bring a depth to these scenes. My favourite is the last with the two people because of the strong low angle and shadows

I think the problem is that the surfer ones look like the results we might expect from a photographer who was inept, and unable to focus or understand shutter speeds ..... We know that's not the case, but we are still stuck with the actual images, what they look like and the impression that conveys. So that overides the appreciation of them as an ICM creative result.

I guess this means it's sort of one extreme or the other that will have the real impact, not a halfway house approach.

Of course 10 and 11 are really lovely!

Don't know, must be a really ancient one, like from around 2009! Lucky for me guys, the K7 is holding up....

Thanks Rob, glad you liked them.