Lucy's Mill Weir

I've been wanting to try a "soft water" shot for a while now, and CH suggested that the weir by Holy Trinity Church in Stratford might be a good place. So we pottered over there this afternoon, only to discover that the light was too strong - I couldn't stop down far enough to get a long exposure. Luckily, by the time we'd walked into town and had something to eat the light was fading, so we went back and this time I had more success.

For a first attempt I'm fairly pleased with this, but I'd like to try again on an overcast day: in some of the shots I took today there was a strange halo effect around the finer tree branches, which was difficult to minimise in editing, and I suspect it happened because I was working at the very extreme of what this lens can do. The other thing about shooting at f/25 into a reasonably bright sky, of course, is the discovery of just how much dirt there is on your camera sensor.... but I'll probably recover from the trauma of that eventually!