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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds

...... you don't need me to tell you ......

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Shipping by...

MV Aastun; Gibraltar; 2006; cargo; 114m; 6100t.

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Mondays Critters

Dull days do not delay doggy day-treks! Due to having to ration my critter shots, the reverse photo of this pair is being held till next week.

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MOONdays

Two entirely different moons on two entirely different months.....

oh okay. Same moon.

Two entirely different phases of the one moon; in two entirely different months in the one year.

Midsummer above, midwinter below.

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Saturday Symmetry

Am going for the symmetry of scenery in this one. Blairmore jetty, Loch Long, looking over to the Trossachs.

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"Out of difficulties grow miracles."
(Jean de le Bruyere)

Himalayan Poppy

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Last Thursday of September - what awaits...?

This is not a simple ship.. She's special. The RFA Wave Knight lives up to the name; a replenishment vessel, whilst on Caribbean deployment, this lass was involved in two major illegal drugs discoveries.
Vital statistics; A389; commissioned 2003; fast fleet tanker replenishment ops; 196m; 18000t.

READ ALL ABOUT IT.

Tweaked the image so she could bask in the spotlight &*>

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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds

This one's even more camouflaged than the maggie. Afraid there was a bit of shake too - as it was very fluttery. Lucky to catch it at all.  Have to label it 'LBB' (little brown bird) as there is just not enough to distinguish it.

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Shipping by...

PS Waverley.

She gets about, does the not-that-wee paddle steamer. Read all about her HERE.

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Monday's Critters

You see my condition? Resorting to stuffed critters! She was a rescue ele from the IKKY SHOPPE - you know the one, big barn which makes like a tardis.

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SUNdays

Early morning sun through the kitchen window, falls on the fruit basket.

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Saturday Symmetry

You saw this bridge a wee while ago, but at a rather more jaunty angle.

This one is taking symmetry seriously.

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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. 
Hate cannot drive out hate; only Love can do that."
(Martin Luther King)

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Another Thursday upon us; got a bit caught up in post processing with this panel from a Chinese balustrade.

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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds

A pair of doves making the most of a brief morning's warmth.

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Shipping by...

MV Hanne Knutsen; UK (Aberdeen); 2000; Shuttle Tanker; 265m; 123581t.

Took this zoom shot as she hove into view.... then waited till she'd slipped past the roof top and took a wider angle on her...

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Monday's Critters

Gracious, I have realised that I have not introduced you to my sponsor Guide-dog-in-training!!!

Meet Isaac. Have been watching him from babyhood, through puppyhood and this picture shows him as he moves into a training foster home.

Still something of a pre-schooler, then.

Isaac, of course, is something of a celeb over on MENO blog, as I enlisted my Blogville furiends in voting as to which of the puppies of the litter I ought to chose to support.

In my heat it was Isaac and thankfully, all but one of Blogville felt the same!  There will be another update photo soon.

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SUNdays

Sunlight through leaves is always a joyful vision.

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Saturday Symmetry

It's those fishes again... but I loved the reflection of the roof struts. A liquid symmetry.

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Is there anything so smile-inducing as a gerbera in full bloom?... perhaps an elephant stuffy AND a gerbera together?
YAM xx

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Never think of Thursdays as boring...

Bowmore 'Lodge', now offices and training centre. Scottish Baronial architecture at its most Gothic impressiveness!

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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds

Okay birders, twitchers, binocular-wranglers... do you see it? 

Playing hide and seek and camouflage in the open is a juvenile magpie. It's looking straight at you.

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Shipping by...

It was a dark, dark, night. Not exactly stormy, but neither was it balmy. The graceful lady slid by - at quite some pace I must tell you!

The ship's speed and my own haste made for this waterfall of light.

Hand-held, full zoom night photography holds its challenges!

You don't need her stats. It would be rude to give them for royalty anyway &*>

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Monday's Critters

Remember these folks? Mama has her own calf (smaller tan and cream) as well as two Belted Galloway bullocks. The other lad took off, but these three were as curious about as as we were about them!

That's the last you'll see of them (at least for this year); have been scrabbling around for other critter picturrs... weather and access have been against me of late. Got a few more and am sure I can locate a enough to see the year out... or there are always the archives!

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SUNdays

Am recycling one from late last month which was taken with the Asus tablet... I was just so excited that there was even a hint of the sun appearing - wanted to capture it before it fled!!!

The sky was certainly silven; though I don't recall the clouds being quite so dramatic. Then again, we do get a lot of character in our skies here.

That gap between the rooves in the middle is where I get all my shipping shots &*>

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Saturday Symmetry

Harking back to the Amorphophallus Titanum event at Edinburgh Gardens... Aside from the symmetry of the 'star' itself, the other foliage lends form and the hothouse structure gives line.

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"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
(Leonardo da Vinci)

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An ordinary Thursday..? think again!

Remember the fishy on Monday? Took it places...
You can see these designs on a variety of products. Click through to RedBubble to see!

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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds

A Hooded Crow has got its eye on some morsel below.

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Shipping by...

Ocean Reliance; St Vincent & Grenadine; 1987; Research and Survey vessel; 85m.;1976t.