A beauty.

When I saw the poster/postie and the location I thought we'd be in for a visual feast. I am not disappointed. Cracking set.

A quick heads up, this weeks competition is Food glorious food.
I'd love to see your food and food themed photographs. Closes for entries midnight Sunday.

I'll be judging so anything could happen.
Best of luck
Nigel

Nice set, No. 3 is the stand out image for me also, followed by No.8

Morning (in the UK) Jonathan. I'm very much looking forward to some of your weather photographs.

Nigel

Lovely set, lovely to see. The Orange tip is the standout image for me also.

I have both lenses in question. Both are good.
18-135 very compact and great zoom range. Produces great looking photographs but not for pixel peepers, great performance in the centre of the image with edges following on behind, some way behind. Dependant on focal length the great centre part of the image can be quite a small percentage of the total image area. I do however like it. My lens came with a body deal, thought I'd sell it on but it's so handy I've kept it.

16-85 larger, heavier, nice to have the noticeably wider angle, much better performance across the frame but mine is not sharper in the centre of the frame than the 18-135. Sometimes I get to 85mm and get frustrated with running out of zoom, a down side of having both lenses I guess. In my opinion the 16-85 is the much better optic.

I also think this is a lovely portrait. Very nicely done.

A little bit cheeky but interesting. Having just come in from skinny dipping I wholly approve.

Heads up on this weeks competition I've just set.
I'd be delighted if you give it a go and give me a tough job of judging next Monday.

link[/link]https://www.pentaxuser.com/competitions/out-of-focus-726