not tried this befoer but as it was a "super" i thought i should have a go.
tripod, Sigma 170-500 @400 f8 1/500s mirror lock up, live view, remote release , shadow/highlight/mid contrast adjust, light sharpen and 50% crop in ps

i just get the whole url showing ,how do i change that to text of my choosing?

how do i create a link to flickr in my signature

what pp software do you have QC?, Elements you can >image>transform >distort or Photoshop cs5 > Select all> Edit> Transform> Distort. there will be enough movement to straighten that little bit if you want to. the corridor is my favourite followed by the Church (3), i think the sky makes it work for me.

like it

all look very ,very good to me, has the back one in 3 blown it like the panning in 7

thanks for the replies, much appreciated. with 1 & 2 she was one side of the high street and i was the other because of the min focus distance of the lens. when i got home there was a head just where the end of the guitar was, must have got there just as i clicked and i did not notice, all i could was crop it off, not skillfull enough to cut and paste it from one to the other.

first time i had seen the dancers, Border dancers apparently. the red and green are to denote the felt making history of Stroud valley's and the blacked out faces come from days gone by when it was used as a disguise against prosecution for begging.
have no idea why those women were on stilts but the little kids loved them.

a new experience for me using 2 old m42 lenses and all that entails,so a real learning curve.
they are a Helios 4-44 58mm f2 and a Photax 135mm f3.5,definitely outside my comfort zone this focal length with something like a 3 meter min focus distance, the 58 i was happier with but still a lot to learn and think about.

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well done, excellent range of subjects well shot

i like it but i think how and what it gets printed on will determine more whether it ends up looking like a photograph or a painting. i would print on watercolour paper with a dry brush filter overlay or on canvas to use as
smudge says, a piece of art. after all no reason the camera cannot be used as a painter uses a brush. remember the most expensive photo in the world at one time was sky,river and grass but looked like 3 lines of colour with no real definition.