All quite lovely Gareth. Intimate describes the general mood well, and I admit to being partial to these types of views. Both b+w and colour work quite well - my favorites (at the moment) would be the first and last.

Great light in those birds' wings LennyB. And I like the compositions (or crops) too. The term 'murder of crows' got me searching, and I came up with this:
https://www.countrylife.co.uk/nature/collective-nouns-for-birds-68344
What a conspiracy of collective nouns!

Thank you for your comments.
David, I'm sure I'd have fun with a plate camera. My only experience though has been looking through and focusing on an 8x10's ground glass. Quite frankly, an exhilarating experience. The owner used it to great effect for collodion wet plate portraits of rock musicians.
LennyB, thanks for your thoughts and praise. PP is a huge part of my photography, and I love massaging those tones after having captured the images. The downside to that is that I'm somewhat dependant on my software (with which I seem to have reached a reasonable understanding), and thus also on Windows, which I'd love to abandon... I've spent countless hours with DT and RT but just cannot get my head around them, unfortunately...

Spring is on it's way (but let's not underestimate winter's last breaths), I know because I felt good looking at these.

A few from a short afternoon in Granville, during a recent stay in Normandy. Staying at a friend's place, everyone having tested negative prior to meeting up. Not many people out and about, but I think the very cold weather was to thank for that...

The seawater pool:

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And a very short walk through the old town - we had to beat the curfew - offered these two views:

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Beautiful little set David. 3 is the most striking to me, and 5 has great balance and wonderful light.

A graphically pleasing image Chris, nicely done.

Thank you all for your comments. The patterns were what attracted me, snake and gryffin head foremost! I had fun taking the photos but I knew I'd have to rely heavily on pp to coax a bit of life into them - it was a very drab day indeed (and we were headed home early the next morning, so no going back in better light).

I met these fellas during a walk around a friend's place in Normandy. They were not very talkative, but we reached an understanding, I think.

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The first two for me, they have the most character (to my eyes). Lovely set.