thank you all very much, appreciate the comments and will re-visit some of them to try and carry out some suggestions made. the last one is a surprise but a very pleasant one, thanks once again for your time and effort to look and comment.
over to Phil (swarf) now to keep us entertained with the next 5

Thanks David and Simon, it is quite pleasant in daylight as well. it is a good place for this as it is very quiet and you don't have to be concerned about being there on your own with camera. you can just concentrate on what you are doing and anyone that comes along seemed interested in what i was doing in a nice way.

now for the last, time to have something completely different, to make you think what the the heck is he on or maybe see what i saw, will be interesting

Tortured Soul

thanks for comments. Michael, not sure what caused that slight vignette and not sure how to correct without disrupting the rest of the image so open to suggestions on that. with the block in the street scene, i think now you have pointed it out i will probably try and cut the size down with a selection then clone the blue onto it in the hope of making it appear as one of the blind support timbers rather than reduce the image.
Phil,missed that concentrating too much on getting the other side as accurate as i could.
Nigel, a handy low wall to stick the gorillapod on, not done a lot of night stuff and i was determined to give it a go here as i always like this street at night.
will have to thank the shopkeeper for their blue light next time we go

last one tomorrow and the baton will be passed to Phil (swarf) look foeard to seeing his offerings.

just spotted the typo errors and no option to edit even straight after posting, has this been changed as i thought you had time to go back after posting

we go over the border to North Devon today, to Lynmouth. i have a soft spot for this place as i watched it's almost total destruction on tv in 1952 at 8 yrs old and could not believe it survived. totally different to Boscastle ,as bad as that was rescue services ,the media etc were there virtuaally straight awawy, it took 3 days for the army to get into Lynmouth
if you do not know the story you can google "Lynmouth and the great flood of 1952"
Sigma 17-70 @17mm f8 15sec. ISO 100

The Photographers Shop, Lynmouth Street

thanks for looking and comments. to have cropped higher would have meant wider lower as the groyne is on the lean and i did not want that so a compromise on my part.

i think the general consensus is shoot in raw and convert using software, gives you so much more leeway to get what you want

today we are off to Somerset, a little place called Porlock just South of Minehead on the A39

Groynes at Porlock Weir Sigma 10-20, f8, 5sec., iso 100

thanks for the comments, you could be right Chris i had a problem on another photo i put up elsewhere and after a lot of debate and retries it turned out i had been a bit heavy on the clarity slider, will have a good look in daylight tomorrow, Philip, all i remember it was a lovely day, in fact we had a great 4 days but i can see why you think that, just had a look at desaturating a bit but it ends up with the upper layers ok and the lower taking on a cyan appearance which i really don't like in skies, again will have another look at it in daylight. Nigel the wall is virtually black below the high tide line. i probably focused on the lighthouse and adjusted shutter speed to give a slight under exposure on the meter. not sure where i will transport you tomorrow.

thanks Barrie and David for your comments, not sure the colour would work David as the greens were not that varied and the sky was grey and flat but will have a look when i finish this.
on to number 2, the reason i took this was the figure in the scene giving scale to what i had always regarded as a very small lighthouse.

Mevagissey Lighthouse, Sigma 17-70, f8, 1/200th, iso160, exp. comp -0.3