Given the moody sky you did really well! I particularly like nos. 4, 5 and 7.

At my GP's request I am recording blood pressure to see how effective my new prescription is; interestingly I have noticed a significant improvement when taking readings after malt whisky, do you think he would prescribe that on the NHS instead?

Oh yes! Reflects how old I feel.😀

I can only think to contact Lee Filters directly. Having bought the SW150 system for the one lens, the f2.8 15-30, and an adaptor for others, I have found it quite bulky and struggled to find a mid-sized bag with enough depth, and wonder whether I would have been better off just with the SW100 system. By contrast I have a cheapo Cokin 82mm system which does for several lenses and fits unobtrusively.

Wow, the first shot of Pentire Point just featured in Explore in Flickr, a first for me!

It’s been too long since my last visit to Reeth when I stayed at The Buck inn, the prominent white building centre left of your photo, and The Kearton Hotel further up Swaledale. Beautifully set with the countryside coming right into the small town which you have captured so well, thanks for the nostalgia trip.

Thanks LennyBloke, I just noticed no. 6 has odd shadows either side of her face which look deceivingly like clumsy post-processing, so I have had a go at removing them so I hope it looks better:

I finally got to put this lens through its paces as a portrait lens yesterday at a (mostly ladies) garden party where I was asked to record the event and photo the guests, and boy did it deliver! This is not my normal milieu and I didn't want to intrude on everybody so a bit of a learning curve, and of course it wasn't like formal portraits so very difficult to control the settings and background. But compared to other lenses there was very little post processing involved other than controlling the highlights and shadows, it delivers gorgeous sharp colour straight out the camera. In fact for many it was a bit too sharp so to avoid some ladies' ire I had to soften slightly. Anyhow here is a handful of samples:

Thanks Peter, all credit to the 50mm f2.8 Macro lens which is beautifully sharp, I am so impressed with the level of detail when zooming in.

It is Pentire Point, a promontory of National Trust land just above Polzeath (which you see on the second pano which was on the walk back to the car looking west). The Rumps are on the left and a small island The Moules on the right.