One of best (and educational)
parts of photography is the use of a tripod. Even with today’s high tech cameras with contra-weights and internal balancers that literally make tripods unnecessary, I still recommend using one. If not for the reason to keep the camera still, then for the reason that it allows the photographer to concentrate on the subject at times when you don’t have that much light available and when that flash is going to ruin the picture for sure. I hate flashlights. I hate indirect flashlights too.
Staying 
on topic: these pictures are shot using an aperture of F5.6. There’s a reason why I used that aperture and it’s ‘depth of field’. Actually, I wanted you guys see how my shovel hit that snow (on the left side). With a lower aperture, you wouldn’t have seen those marks.
N.B.: I use a Samsung DigiMax V3: it has great options to manually change aperture and all that, overriding the’easy/default settings’. I mean, why use flash and red-light reduction if you have a tripod?
You are so close to where I used to live.
Nice photos.
F5.6 is mostly a sweet spot for a lens, so you’re right choosing that one. Is that the maximum aperture value? It doesn’t go further than F5.6 to say F8 or F10?
Watch your white balance though.
Oh, exposure time? A few seconds, I guess, because the second has some stars in it.
You are so close to where I used to live.
It’s a long street yes :-).
It doesn’t go further than F5.6 to say F8 or F10?
I think the maximum (minimum, rather?) is F6.2. The minimum (maximum?) is F2.8.
(I’m saying minimum vs. maximum because the higher the number the smaller the amount of light allowed to pass through the lens).
Re: White balance… It’s set to ‘Auto’. I haven’t found a way to correct it. Manual doesn’t reveal anything.
Oh, exposure time? A few seconds, I guess, because the second has some stars in it.
6 seconds. The one with the moon ended up having 4 seconds (I think). The JPEG tags may reveal some more data?
My correspondent portland also grew up feet from the street which has a name but will not be named.
My correspondent portland also grew up feet
Portland? From the Truro region too??
He and I both had “religious” upbringings geographically speaking.
He and I both had “religious” upbringings geographically speaking.
Holy Bible. That’s one big Hill of a coincidence <g>.
I bet you could not have “picked two” surprise neighbours past better.