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Placed 7^th in the challenge. In an area of a memorial garden, which is normally a blaze of colour but is now very plain due to the lockdown, this bright flower on a bush grabbed my attention.

Thank you wam7 & cjf2 your comments are very much appreciated.

Thank you, very much appreciated.

Absolutely right - a very pleasing display of images from a wide variety of genres, with the vast majority technically well executed and presented. A pleasure to see so little overuse of HDR/tone ...

Placed 9^th in the challenge. Libellula quadrimaculata - male.

Placed 3^rd in the challenge. Enallagma cyathigerum - female; green form. Many insects, like this damselfly, emerge in springtime.

Not sure where you are based but, just in case you have lost the details, a copy of the manual for the camera and all the relevant manual and software, including firmware updates for the camera ...

Placed 2^nd in the challenge. Enallagma cyathigerum - female; green form.

I totally agree with JahnG. If I enter an image that was taken using a film camera I always inform of the camera/lens used to take the picture and the scanner used to digitise the image. The only ...

Placed 1^st in the challenge. English Electric Type 1 Class 20 'Chopper' Bo-Bo diesel locomotive 20227 'Sherlock Holmes' in the historic London Transport livery at Weybourne Station on the North Norfolk Railway. The shed plate "221B" is fictitious, being the home of the famous detective.

Placed 10^th in the challenge. Privately owned Swedish built diesel railcar. Built in 1958 by Statens Järnvägar (SJ) for the Swedish railways; Class Y6 with the number 1212 and name as in the title. It started work on the Nene Valley Railway in 2012 after restoration.

Thank you. Not familiar with that one, so will give it a try as GIMP is a very good for more advanced post processing. Not sure how well it will work as there appears to have been no development of ...

Thank you for your suggestions. Already have GIMP on the laptop, and it works very well and is very much a Photoshop clone. Unfortunately it does not have a RAW converter, so you have to use ...

Thank you for your suggestion, I'll have a look at Photoline. Serif Affinity Photo is an excellent replacement for Photoshop, IMO, my wife and I both use it on our desktops, but it sadly only has a ...

Thank you for the suggestion. We already use Faststone purely as an image viewer as we were looking for something a little more versatile for post processing.

When we are away from home, obviously not at the moment, my wife and I use a small laptop running Windows 7 +SP1 32 bit. One of the problems these days is finding a decent quality 32 bit image ...

Placed 11^th in the challenge. Sitting on abranch of the tree in our front garden.