The lens is a Peleng 8mm fisheye, theres a wealth of info on it on google, I'm really pleased with it, and a bargain for about £110. Which would also be the reason the lines are bent. All of the pictures are a bit cropped, and a bit cloned to remove the small amount of vignetting you get with the lens. I guess the colours are just thanks to nice bright sunlight, and a good bit o' fill flash! Oh, and the optics of the lens to! Yeah, Marks got much better, we were all impressed with the drop! The gap that matt and James did was very huge! Heres a photo of James(?) Munn just doing a gap up, but you can see the gap up, although it does make the larger cotton reel look smaller than it actually is. Thanks for the comments.