Good capture. Is that your reflection in his eye?

I think that a bit of infill lighting or flash might have worked wonders here. I would have set the camera on a tripod, used a small aperture and low ISO for long exposure. Then waved a hand held torch around to illuminate all of the pipework/tubing and connectors, especially up in the dark rear upper corners, in combination with slow sync camera flash. You may need to tilt the Camera's on-boar ...

Too much carbohydrate! but I would like to photograph the rose.

Good composure, exposure and background.

Too much carbohydrate!

At that time we were using 5Amp and 15Amp round pin, non fused plugs, made from brown Bakelite I believe. When fitting such plus I remember my father holding his cigarette lighter beneath the rubber insulation, quickly pulling the last half inch between finger and thumb to strip back the insulation - a safety man's nightmare today! Those steel pipes tubes were referred to as Conduit pipes. Our ...

Waiting for their breakfast? The one on the right still has a lot of sleepy dust in his right eye!

Fantastic shot! I think it is a Hibiscus. For someone that thinks he is not very good with plants you have done a dam good job of this one; nice colours against a blue sky and I like the stalk running up through the shot, along the diagonal. You could make it even better if you clone out the distracting highlight at the bottom left corner area. Too late now but you could have used a bit of fil ...

Thanks David, that is interesting, my father was a chippy but I don't remember using a bezel, did you mean a bevel? which would sort of fit in with your explanation, if so did you need to anneal the non slot end of the sliding straight-edge, prior to drilling? I always assumed they were harened and tempered. Perhaps I have misunderstood. Yes, I would be interested in seeing an image of your dev ...

Great shot! Best viewed large; - where you can see that you've got it, with those amazing multi-facets of the compound eyes. Was this, ring flash, on-board flash or attached flash?