the museum has an eclectic mix from 16th century wall paintings to the 50's / 60's. your ticket gets you free admission for a year from the day you visit. the building housed Bishop Hooper the night before he was burnt at the stake. some of the displays are awkward to photograph due to tight space so will go back.

40's Radio in the "War Effort" diplay



Delivery Transport



The Dursley Pendersen Bicycle (Headstock, Bars, Saddle) one display i need to try again



Original 16th Century Wall Paintings



Who Had One of These



50's Kitchen, must have been wealthy to afford Parnall washing machine and tumble drier



a couple from the Docks
A Mobile Steam Crane in as much as it ran on rails installed around the Docks



Bricks and Moire



A Lifting Crane



Kaskelot in Dry Dock

like 11 but they are all well spotted and executed as usual but with that one i just want see what is living down that hole. is that Severn or Avon mud, Bill?

surely the mechanical action of the lens cannot open beyond 2.8 , that is as far as it can go, so i would think that is what you are actually getting and the 1.2 is the electronics misreading it.

thanks for all the comments. i think with flowers a run through all the presets is fun and it does not take long to do. if anything looks interesting i will play with the adjustments until i think "that will do". no planning and would probably not be able to replicate it as i don't make notes on what i do, have been times when i wish i had

thanks for looking and comments. David, it took me a while to get the lens at what I considered a fair price as you do see some very ambitious pricing at times. I was also fortunate to get the matching 18F extension tube to make it 1:1 from its native 1:2.
I like the last one best myself and find when you get the right subject the Solarise effect (in Colour Efex) can give some interesting results, Painterly Petals was with Topaz Impression and Petals was Silver Efex. 1 &3 were just playing with hue/saturation in PS mainly

plus a bit of PP

Having a Sniff



Petals



In The Red



Painterly Petals



Solarised

strange and intriguing but brilliant, love the way number 5 is having a little smile to "himself"

the one thing with the Sigma is you can switch it to MF for use with "Catch in Focus", quite often useful in macro shooting. this is not possible with the Pentax 100mm lens as far as i know.

excellent set of images, wish our Jacks were so well behaved.

a good set there Derek, spider looks determined to keep its meal