My TAKE: December 2016

31 December 2016

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY TWO c

Saturday Symmetry

...are you ready???

PARTY!

30 December 2016

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ONE c

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

(Hal Borland)

29 December 2016

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY c

Last Thursday. No. Make that FINAL THURSDAY. For 2016 anyway...

28 December 2016

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN c

Wings on Wednesday -

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

Psssst... pass it on...

The year is nearly gone!

27 December 2016

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN c

Shipping by...

A festive ship for the festive season. Model found in the Halifax Art Gallery.

26 December 2016

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN c

Monday's Critters

Psssttt .. didya hear?

It's nearly the end of year!

25 December 2016

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN c

MOONdays

By the liiiiggghhht

of the Chrsitmassy moooooooooooooooon

I wish you LLOOOOOVEE

And an extra sppoooonnnn

(for all that pudding...)

24 December 2016

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN c

Saturday Symmetry

Hope your Christmas Eve is bright with Love!

23 December 2016

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN c

"Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence."
(Plato)

22 December 2016

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN c

It's Thursday. What is more, it is the Thursday before Christmas. Are you organised?

Among the shore-borne kelp, an orange ping-pong ball. Or fishing float that got away...

21 December 2016

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND TWELVE c

Wings on Wednesday -

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

"Did you hear - Christmas is on the way!"

Jackdaws pair for life and show preening affection.

20 December 2016

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN c

Shipping by...

HMCS Preserver, Canadian oil replenishiment ship. Protecteur Class. Docked at the Canadian Navy Atlantic Fleet base on Halifax harbour.

19 December 2016

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND TEN c

Monday's Critters

A place in the sun...

18 December 2016

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND NINE c

SUNdays

Early autumn and the baling's done... view of Arthur's Seat from outside Edinburgh.

17 December 2016

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHT c

Saturday Symmetry

Apppealing colours... Halifax Harbour Boardwalk. Unfortunately the wind was of ice, so not sitting around!

16 December 2016

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND SEVEN c

"March on and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."
(Khalil Gibran)

15 December 2016

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND SIX c

Thursday's can be fun; yes they can.

14 December 2016

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND FIVE c

Wings on Wednesday -

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

As you can tell, had to stretch the lens for this one and even then managed to miss the facial detail. It's a chaffinch, spotted in Northumbria last spring.

13 December 2016

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND FOUR c

Shipping by...

The Svitzer Montreal;
Montreal 2004; tug: 31m; 145t.

Halifax Harbour.

12 December 2016

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND THREE c

Monday's Critters

A modern sea-shore sculpture - donchya jus' love the doggy in the goose boat? Another little doggy bottom left.. not to mention all the other fun critters!

11 December 2016

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND TWO c

SUNdays

The sun glinted off the aluminium 'tiling' of the Kingston University arts building...Ontario.

10 December 2016

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND ONE c

Saturday Symmetry

This was a drive-by shooting whilst being shown round Perth Ontario - I trimmed off all the traffic and peeps. After all, it's the church siding symmetry we're interested in, is it not?!

09 December 2016

TAKE THREE HUNDRED c

"If you are living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement!
Seek to understand others - and help them understand you."
(Martha Beck)