I like it, this made me laugh! Rockafella?

Good shot, good colours! Interesting!; it looks a bit like a cross between a shield bug and a lilly beetle.

I like this very much; it has a rustic feel about it but I would have been tempted to crop out or clone out, the modern house at the left of the picture and would have cloned out the modern road sign at the left of the tree bole. Regards Colin

I like it!

I still take pleasure in using my trusty 'Sheaffer' fountain pen with italic nib and black ink. My pen was a 21st Birthday Present and has seen me through engineering studies and exams. I learnt a simple fast Italic Script from a 'Puffin' book; 'Better Handwriting', published 1954 and reprinted 1955. Coincidentally this book was loaned to me about 1957, when I used an 'Osmeroid' fountain pen ...

A picture of just one, of those lost skills of yesteryear!

Bloody good shot! If this were mine I would certainly use it for a Christmas card. Regards

Good photograph of the tones and textures of the wood and knocker, effectively emphasized by Black and white treatment, more apparent when viewed 'Large'. Perhaps you didn't capture a photograph of the Knocker image because the image wasn't being displayed by the IPad at the exact time of your shutter release or because your camera lens was not exactly perpendicular to the IPad screen at the ...

(I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition...)[/quote] Sorry, no inquisition intended, I was just thinking about the direction of forces and compressive/tensile/shear forces on the door and hinge components! Regards Colin

My immediate reaction was "That's Bloody Good!" This is spoilt only by modern day man's white calibrated Depth Gauge, I don't think 'Constable' would have included it and I would try to clone it out. Regards