been an up and down year with photography having a fair few "can't be bothered" spells but looking back through found a mix that may be worth a look perhaps. hoping something tickles your fancy

1. January--St Cyrs by the Stroudwater Canal. Stonehouse Parish Church



2. February--Saul Junction on Gloucester/Sharpness Canal. the point where the old Stroudwater Canal joined it



3. March-- Arlington Row at Bibury , looking across the Rack Isle where cloth was laid out to dry. a very cold and dull day




4. April -- Broadway Tower, a folly built just off the top of Fish Hill above Broadway



5. May--holiday time, Brixham, Devon



6. June--A Play with IR, St Cyrs Church again as it suited the needs for an IR image for me having a building ,vegetation and water



7. July-- A Blue Damsel, using CIF and Tamron Adaptall 90mm Macro lens at Coombe Hill nature reserve between Gloucester and Tewkebury



8. August-- Psychedelia Alive and Well, extreme faux colour IR using NIK Vivesa



9. September-- A Local Landmark, waited ages for the sun to get down to get this



10. October-- The Mariners Chapel and Reynolds Warehouse, Gloucester. had wanted to take some night shots here for a while but always a bit dubious about wandering at night carrying a camera on a tripod around the docks



11. November-- Sunset on the Severn Vale from Coaley Peak. went out with just the 10-17 Fisheye looking for subjects for that but this sunset started to take shape so i waited until it was very low and took the shot not really knowing how it would turn out and was pleasantly surprised by the result. mostly a bit ofshadow lift and colour tweaking was all that it needed



12. December--Starling in the Sun, on next doors roof. they nest in her roof space and stay all year.

another excellent set of images , my favourites are the Chair and the Bike

your dedication and skill has given us an excellent view into this class of motorsport, thank you. the night shot is very good and probably rarely seen.

a very good selection there, Lenny. nothing poor about them

excellent set David "Let There be Light" brilliant in its simplicity, Clevedon Pier about an hour away and have never been and the Cotswold Window intrigues me, is it in Broadway? just going by the colour of the stone, a lot different to my end of the Cotswolds more grey this end. you have made Clevedon a definite trip for me this year.

so are you getting the F-- displayed on the rear screen and are you getting MF diplayed? try giving the contacts on the body a good clean and the mounting face of the lens assuming it is a polished base on the lens and not anodised or coated in any way as all the pins on the body have to be shorted out by it

algernon's link to the Kenko one had me searching Ebay and these are all over it . how they compare i'm not sure but may be worth a punt

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/KOOKA-KK-P25-Copper-Macro-Extension-Tubes-Auto-Focus-C...

as someone said before put it somewhere to dry out properly, rain got in behind mine on K511s but it did not take it out just made it look a bit weird . left it over a radiator and some gentle hair dryer treatment and it came back ok apart from some dead pixels over the battery indicator.

just note when you disable shutter release focus it disables CIF as well, should you wish to use it shutter release focus has to be enabled. found that out after thinking it had gone wrong when i switched to back button focus

an interesting set, never been there but definitely looks an interesting place to visit. the thing that spoils these for me is the "orange" lighting, if you shot in RAW and used photoshop or elements try applying Tungsten white balance in the first (ACR) window. this should give a nice dark blue sky and white lights any other colours you can usually pull back with individual hue/saturation adjustments once in the pp programme