Many of you will be all too familiar with the views from the top floor of this house, but it seemed a good test for the zoom on the new camera.  Above is the tower at Upton-on- Severn (about 7 miles away), and below, in the other direction, Worcester Cathedral (about 10 miles or so).  It wasn't the brightest of days but I'm quite impressed by the detail.

I also took these flowers, which my lovely brother-in-law in Australia sent for my birthday ,with the macro setting.

And lastly, a couple of outdoors shots. First, one of the Malvern Water fountains - of which there are many dotted around the hills, where you can collect the mineral water directly from the source.  It's absolutely lovely, very cold and fresh. The wells come in many shapes and sizes, from Victorian edificies to plain stand pipes, this is a more elaborate one that stands on the terrace at the top of the town by the Elgar statue which I 've mentioned before.  Near it is one of the Malvern gas lamps - one of which is reputed to have inspired C.S Lewis to include the lampost in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

I haven't cropped or edited any of these as I'm still finding out what the camera does, but I'm really enjoying having a good working camera again.   Hope you don't all get too fed up with me sharing my efforts!