Thanks for your comments Don. I seldom know what I’ll do with any particular image I shoot. Only very occasionally do I have something definite in mind. It’s a fault and one I struggle to correct but I enjoy coming up with an idea as I browse the files, or try to find something to fit a type of image I’ve seen elsewhere. Ps has a ‘torn edge’ filter. I watched a tut recently showing how to get a better result from that than the simple application of the filter gives. It looked good.

Thanks Fstop - and for referencing the truck. I thought it might need fading back a touch but both the boss and you say it’s OK. I’ll leave it as is.

Thank you, I’m pleased you think so.

Thank you Ellen. Nobody has mentioned the kilts of those two guys - a bit cold in the snow but the Scots are a tough breed - ask RG!
It was really quite an easy composite, something that went together quite easily. Opening the gate was the longest process.

👍 Thank you!

Good to know, many thanks.

Nice of you to say so Jack.

Thanks Mike.

You’re very welcome, thanks for commenting.

Thanks l-fox, pleased you think so.

Thanks Linda. For ten years I put around 30k images a year into Lightroom. They are stored on yearly external drives. I don’t do nearly so many nowadays but enjoy looking through previous years and conjuring up something. I am however getting withdrawal symptoms - need to get out on some shoots!

Thank you!

Yeah, this alt or option thing bugs me - as does command or control. Every time I listen to a tut we have to go through that bit for every move we make - why can’t there be universal agreement as to what we’re going to call the keys?!! My big iMac says alt (!) and the laptop says option. Can’t win!
Sounds like you’re fully up to speed with things though Linda, better get some external drives to dump those big files on!

'It is sweet and fitting to die for your country', says the sign across the front of this WW1 truck. I photographed it several years ago at a remembrance event at the local tank museum. The setting is a field just below our house that was snow-covered in 2018. Not seen much in the way of snow since. The figures were taken at the same or a similar event and the whole thing was put together a while back. Apart from having to open the gate, there's no great trickery involved, just a simple composite. I don't think the hue of the truck quite matches the rest looking at it now - I leave you to decide! Any critique is welcome.

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I can imagine that. A while back I bought a multi-lensed camera similar to an iPhone for size but with many more lenses. I’d followed its development prior to coming to the market. I thought this would be the ultimate answer for lightweight cameras and was convinced Apple or one of the others would buy up the technology for their phones. Whilst waiting for delivery I learned it had no SD card and would require frequent downloading. No good for the type of photography I do, it went straight back without coming out of the box. The manufacturer seems to have been bought up now.