Yes, my old 16-50 was notorious for this. My method was to have AF on, half press the shutter and manually turn the focus ring (quick-shift) to and from the extremes a few times. Lens would eventually wake up.

It went on for years like this and never failed entirely.

I would be inclined to clone out the leg ? on the right of the picture.

The first is an absolute cracker.

Great detail.

Hi Bill, glad to see you are keeping busy.

The last three get top votes from me.

I love the treatment of the first.

Two prayer books. The tripod looks more like a candle stand I think.

The last is my favourite too. It is a work in progress as I intend to get it printed at 24x16. it involved sitting on the floor holding the camera on a bench and looking at the LV screen to get everything as level as possible. As soon as I lifted my head up a fraction too much it created a shadow in the light from the window behind me. I had the whole church to myself the whole time I was there. As it is sited on private land and has no car park or proper road it does not get many passing visitors except locals and the odd sheep.

If any of you are film buffs....the graveyard was used for the burial scene in the recent film "To Olivia".... a very sad bio of the writer Roald Dahl.

It is looked after by the CCT as you suspected. No services are conducted there.