Lovely set. I love the muted colours and composition of the first one, I would be tempted in 2 and 3 to warm the colour temperature a bit, did you use an ND filter on these as they can give a blue cast? Nice swirly water in 4 and beautiful green Cornish sea in the last. Worth the effort to be up early but it does wipe me out for the rest of the day!

I visited the Cotswold Lavender farm today (along with about 100 others!) and here are some results:

Well done, have fun!

Lovely spot, well balanced exposure.

Excellent, and well controlled exposure.

We recently had a new member with some nice macro shots and when someone asked for a camera recommendation he replied “an expensive one”! What he meant was a body that worked well with high ISO numbers and he never used flash nor tripod and of course nothing could compare with his Nikon D810 which he liked to remind us several times. I of course sat in smug silence out of politeness but I thought his manner arrogant. I know you of course wouldn’t fall into that trap but it struck me it would have been far better to just say “this is how I do it, there are many other techniques equally valid and effective but I find this works for me.”

Ps Good luck!

Hot enough now for you Gwyn? Bet you’re glad to have a shower! It’s all gone quiet outside, apparently there is a football match on the telly.

Pentax-Leica? What’s that about?

Yes, as a lad I was familiar with 35mm camera settings and became adept with a light meter so I thought a dslr would be the same but with a sensor where the film was. How naive! Quite a steep learning curve followed, and still on it. And we had never heard of bokeh then, just out of focus.

Well I haven’t anything to compete!