Some asked to see a colour version of my last posting so I'll put one here. ( needs to be viewed large )

HDR from 10 exposures processed in PS CS2 .  The clouds were moving hence the sky, which rather spoilt the star burst I was hoping for from the sun at the apex of the arm - but one of those things with hdr you don't know exactly what you will get till it is processed.

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html