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The Thursday Challenge this week is "Old"...  what scope!!  How about this then?

(It's also "Last Thursday - the day when things can go haywire, or are just plain peculiar!", but the spiral in these sends my head buzzing anyway, so why do any tinkering with it??!)

15th Century stairs in Craigmillar Castle,  near Edinburgh.  Taken with the Uniden.

Image copyright `  © Yamini Ali MacLean

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Wings on Wednesday -

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

I noticed that at the beaches and here, at the Gateway of India, there were specific railings and feeding areas for the pigeon population.  Honoured citizens it seems!

Taken with the 'Nik' on auto everything.

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The Tuesday Tease

"Drat - a girl can't even tidy the rear feathers without that YAMarazzi sticking her lens in..."


Do you have an insight to the thoughts of this bird?




This Black Kite was way up high - I climbed 7 flights of stairs and put the 'Nik' on sports mode with 15x zoom in order to capture this shot.

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Monday's Critters

...it's a bit fuzzy because this fella and his pal were moving fast, so not much time to get the 'Nik' on focus and zoom to capture the expressions that were going on!!!  

There were two of these 'teenagers' (pardon me) monkeying around and creating quite a bit of havoc among the crows.



I have a wee stockpile of critter piccers which I am just going to go ahead and put up in order each week.  So you'll be seeing a  bit of India for a wee while longer.

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MOONdays... oops, having begun a SUN series last week, I find we are on the last Sunday which I call MOONday - sorry!  The air series will continue next week.  Here is one for Australia taken with the Uniden up at Woko.  Moonrise on a winter's evening.

image copyright `  © Yamini Ali MacLean

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Saturday Symmetry

The deodar trees are tapped for resin.  Many are deeply scarred, yet still grow tall and green.

One could not get over the sense of weeping...










Taken with the 'Nik' on auto.

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"White is not a mere absence of colour - it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red or as definite as black..."  
(G K Chesterton).

Taken with the 'Nik' on macro mode and auto exposure.

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The Thursday Challenge - landscape/mountain etc...  well have posted a few mountains lately!  So have used one from the archives which was taken with the Uniden up in the Sayadhri hills...