If you respond to overcharged criticism, you usually lose. Ignore the trolls.

In Norse mythology, troll, like thurs, is a term applied to jötnar, and are mentioned throughout the Old Norse corpus. In Old Norse sources, trolls are said to dwell in isolated mountains, rocks, and caves, sometimes live together (usually as father-and-daughter or mother-and-son), and are rarely described as helpful or friendly. In the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál, a scenario describing an encounter between an unnamed troll woman and the 9th century skald Bragi Boddason is provided. According to the section, once, late in the evening, Bragi was driving through "a certain forest" when a troll woman aggressively asked him who he was, in the process describing herself:

I haven't posted here for quite a while but it seems the group is strong and healthy with some good stuff being posted.

Cornwall is an HDR paradise, put it on your bucket list. All down the coast there are ruins of old tin mines with many many stacks like these all just waiting for the HDR photographer. You could spend months there and hardly scratch the surface of what is available.

This is a bracket of three (-2,0,+2) processed fairly conservatively in Photomatix then into Photoshop. Strong denoising in the sky but only about 25% denoising on the rest so as not to lose detail. Topaz Detail on the building but not the sky to enhance large and medium details. Then a small amount of unsharp mask and a little brightening. Hope you like it. All feedback most welcome.

Peter