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It's here - Last Thursday...

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Wings on Wednesday - 

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

They were a long way off, these shelduck and gulls...

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Shipping by...

The Targale travels the globe with oil on board.

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Monday's Critters

I stretched Fudge's lens for this one... not because that was one massive bull, but because there didn't appear to be a road up to that gate...

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MOONdays

A bit hazy, but there she blows...

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Saturday Symmetry

Gotta love those old benches...

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"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
(Erich Fromm)

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...and here we are again folks... Thursday. Oh well, we can cross that bridge...

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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 was a special shot...

It is a female Siskin. They are notoriously elusive. It was a one-off moment.  

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Shipping by...

CHARLIE JACK(WK862) is a 4.95m fishing vessel made of Fibre glass in 1989 registered at SCRABSTER, Sutherlandshire... photographed  in Golspie harbour.

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Monday's Critters

Waiting for the pipe band... 

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SUNdays

Breakthrough at the
Rest And Be Thankful,
Argyllshire.

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Saturday Symmetry

Marbellous symmetry...

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"The fabric of existence weaves itself whole."
(Charles Ives)

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Goodness gracious me. Thurs-dee... see the sea.

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Wings on Wednesday - 

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

Eider are prolific round the Scottish shores.

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Shipping by...

One of the many small naval vessels spotted on the Clyde...

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Monday's Critters

Her Horness the Highland Heifer

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SUNdays

A bright day creates fascination on the ceiling...

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Saturday Symmetry

A suburban railway bridge in Edinburgh advertises itself to tall traffic with symmetrical style.

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"There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of Mankind, and we must all help search for it."
(Carlos Fuentes)

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Blow me over with a puff of breath - 'tis Thursday again!

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Wings on Wednesday - 

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

The daddy of the cygnets you saw here last week... with a few of the good ol' Scottish 'midgies' to keep him company.

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Shipping by...

I have lost my little book in which I record the ship details... and just can't quite make out the name on the stern. Suffice to say it's an oil tanker out of Nassau with the second name of Britannia...

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Monday's Critters

What fine lashes you have m'dear...

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SUNdays

You can tell by the trees this was not taken recently... but at least the sun was shining!

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Saturday Symmetry

Glasgow Central Rail Station. Nothing like a bit of girder-work and a row of turnstiles to get the symmetrical juices running!

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"May my soul bloom in love for all existence."
(Rudolf Steiner)

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Once more unto Thursday, dear friends...

...come out, it's quite safe...

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Wings on Wednesday - 

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

The problem with wee birdies in big grass is the autofocus disnae ken whit to do!

I could have switched to manual... but I kinda like this effect.

They are cygnets, by the way - we have a resident swan couple up at Bishop's Glen.

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Shipping by...

"Oh you kin tak' the low road,
or the high road...
but ah'll jus' float on by,
on the bonny bonny watters
o' Loch Lomond..."

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