As I'm not very keen on poetry etc, these are exceptional. Sad but with a tint of humour. Thanks for sharing, I really like them!

Well fed, indeed. What do they feed on, cats?

On the 3rd one, are you sure it was a focus problem not a slight camera movement or wind moving the branches? I read it was @300mm with f/8 so slight oof should not be that visible? And I cannot spot anything really sharp - or maybe it's just that late and my eyes lie to me.

The first one tells me clearly: Autumn coming.

Excellent again, Peter - and I like the crop as it is. There is some mystery hiding behind - maybe a monster from the deep?

Another day I've been to Belton House park,

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which is fairly close to me. While walking with my wife and son I noticed some ermmmm... berries? sun-lighted, so I tried to render it with the camera. C&C, ideas, modifications welcome

Pentax DA 16-45mm @45mm, 1/80s, f/4.0, ISO 200, EV -1
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Pentax DA 16-45mm @45mm, 1/50s, f/4.0, ISO 200, EV -1/3
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Your wish is my command But as Gareth noticed it's less sharp then - even though I applied slight sharpening (Unsharp Mask filter in GIMP, 5.0 / 0.4 / 0)

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The first two seem to be tad soft, but the last one is amazing - a dragon-bud I like the composition, it looks like the flower is peeking over leaves. And third one is also nice.

Thanks, I'm happy you liked them Fortunately the dragonfly was flying to and fro in a quite small area, so sometimes I got lucky predicting its way. But there was no way to use tripod when it was flying.

Now I know I won't dare taking any apart Thanks for sharing

Now we all here wait impatiently for your delivery. That's a bit unusual - I hope you'll find something really interesting there.

Oh my, identification aside, the first one is outstanding, first I saw it I felt an overwhelming, urgent need to duck