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Shipping by...

Well, this was an interesting one... Not all that large really, but still with the two tugs. Turns out this is the RFA "Wave Knight"... worth clicking that link!  I had taken several shots, but switching into mono definitely favoured this one.  Do you agree?

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Monday's Critters
.....resorting to archives again......tsk.... have 'tizzied' it up, for a point of difference.

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MOONday

Really?  Another month down?  Yikes.

Two of the same moon rise in January for you today.

Not super-sharp because they were taken through double-glazing at a disadvantaged angle...and, let's face it, the glass could be cleaner...

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Saturday Symmetry

Bright winter sun and a long draw on the lens gave this photo of the tug "Fidra"  and the control house at Leith docks a sharp cut. The Firth of Forth stretches out behind them and yonder dark hills are actually the Kingdom of Fife... nearly three miles away!  The poles giving the symmetry are lamps - well more like spotlights really...

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"The imagination is the golden path to everywhere.." 
(Terence McKenna)

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Anyway Thursdays are when it gets a bit strange...

Ocean Terminal is at Leith Docks. The Royal Yacht Brittania (decomissioned) now rests here as a tourist and events pavillion.  Around it an enormous shopping extravaganza has arisen.  Oh well...

Meanwhile, some of us have to really deal with the ocean... or at least some small part of it... as we make our way home.

Aboard the Gourock-Dunoon ferry. When perhaps one ought to have thought better of it...

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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 Father and myself had a fun time trying to find out what this one might be called. He did not recall ever seeing one before and we were quite sure it would be something exotic.

Meet 'The Tufted Duck'.

Yup.  That's all folks....

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Shipping by...

...the Cumbrae Ferry "Loch Shirra"... nowhere near Cumbrae!  This was a dreadful stormy day and I was waiting for the Gourock-Dunoon ferry myself, when this one chugged by, heading into Greenock.  Just to prove that there can be still and golden moments here on the Clyde, managed to capture this next one of the "Eilidh Anne", one of our local fishing vessels, in a fine winter's sunrise.

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Monday's Critters

Leash?  What leash....? A crisp winter's morning waddle for this pair of elders!

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SUNdays

The Fallen of the Commonwealth; a row of decorated fighters.

Newington Cemetery, Edinburgh.

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Saturday Symmetry

Jewish Section, Newington Cemetery, Edinburgh.

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"The world is full of magical things waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
(Bertrand Russell)

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Anytime Thursdays... a pick of peeks...

The building which featured last Saturday, but in a longer shot... and how about a skyline, just for good measure...

This was taken from Leith docks looking over towards the city centre... Edinburgh's East end, Calton hill.

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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 Greylag Goose enjoying brief winter warmth....

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Shipping by...

I apologise for letting the side down... I totally forgot to look up the details of that top one and cannot make out the name on the hull... sigh... nice shade of red though.  Next is the Cemisle, 'cousin' of the Cemfjord, which was lost at sea recently. Lastly, to make up for these two miseries, a beauty-shot of one of my favourites...

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Monday's Critters

A 'drive-by' shooting... the sheep almost disappear into the landscape!

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SUNdays

Clouds are not all bad, you know...

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Saturday Symmetry

This Victorian building at Leith Docks may once have served as an ocean terminus of some sort - and is currently utilised as the offices of Forth Ports PLC. Glad it wasn't demolished as it lends strong character to the waterfront.

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"It was one of those March days, when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold; 
when it is summer in the light and winter in the shade."
(Charles Dickens)

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Thursdays are a bit loose and fancy...

...as if you hadn't seen enough wintry pictures all over the net by now...

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

Caught this cormorant capering... everyone must take care of morning ablutions!!!

Technically, it is a Shag, the smaller cormorant species which is in 'amber' status here in UK. One of the few places its numbers are stable is around the Firth of Forth - which is exactly where I found this one.

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Shipping by...

Who is that peeking round the tree?

'Tis the mighty "Yeoman Bank"; Monrovia, Liberia; 1982; general cargo; 44,000t; 205m.

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Monday's Critters

NIGHT DUTY!... I happened to look out and spot this fellow in the wee small hours... extended lens and long exposure ensured the blur. Sorry about that - but then again, is this not how things tend to look when you have woken half way through a decent sleep and wondered where in the world you are?!

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SUNdays.

Looking across St Margaret's Loch, (Holyrood Park) to St Anthony's Chapel.

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Saturday Symmetry

Down here by the coastline, snow, if it comes, generally doesn't stay around for long.  There can be one or two exceptions though. The symmetry of nature and the man-tended lands are transformed...

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"Solitude is a place of purification."
(Paul Buber)

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On Thursdays, it's a free for all... a little series from around Leith Water and docks.

 

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Wings on Wednesday -
YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious of photographing birds.

The female Red Breasted Merganzer you saw a few weeks back turned up with a mate...

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Shipping by...

On the 24th November last year, these two ships crossed my particular horizon.

Ternvag; Denmark (Skagen); 2003; Chemical tanker; 141m; 12500t.

Bro Developer; Denmark (Copenhagen); 2007; Chemical tanker; 147m; 13000t;

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Monday's Critters

This fine, though ageing, pair of mutts walk early every morning and are always keen to say hello if met on the street. They were spotted through my first floor window on this damp and windy day as keen as ever to check out the pee-mail!

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SUNdays.

Glisten... Pre-Christmas sunrise over the Firth of Clyde... (NOT mono - that is the pewter colour Scotland can throw out!)