30 June 2018

TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SIX e

Saturday Symmetry


Wall in the Scotsman Stairs, Edinburgh.

29 June 2018

TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY FIVE e

"Don't take life too seriously... you will never get out of it alive."
(Elbert Hubbard)


28 June 2018

TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY FOUR e

Last Thursday, at last...


Dornoch Cathedral, way up on the ceiling and in candlelight, no flash...

27 June 2018

TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY THREE e

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



... oh yes, there's plastic to be had - abandon the straw!

(see the little abandoned bundle bottom left of image...)

26 June 2018

TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY TWO e

Shipping by...


One of many tugs to be seen on the Clyde. It was being followed...

25 June 2018

TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY ONE e

Monday's Critters


Waiting for the release to the spring grass...

24 June 2018

TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY e

MOONdays



0500h April 30th 2018, through the Hutch's window. I love how the effect of our moist atmosphere makes it look like the moon has a layer of air!

23 June 2018

TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY NINE e

Saturday Symmetry


More of an asymmetry of masts at play here, which creates its own kind of pattern, pleasing to the eye, behind the balanced lines of the viking vessel.

22 June 2018

TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT e

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."
(Anthony de Angelo)


21 June 2018

TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SEVEN e

Thursdays. They come at us, one after the other. Relentless.


20 June 2018

TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX e

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


My local jackdaw couple back in April was showing all the signs of renewing the nest. "What's the one down below discovered? Could it be better than the straw and paper I've got???"

19 June 2018

TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE e

Shipping by...



The hazardous materials container ship,  Encounter

18 June 2018

TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FOUR e

Monday's Critters



In the lambing sheds. Waiting. 

16 June 2018

TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY TWO e

Saturday Symmetry


The roof of Waverley Station, Edinburgh, as views from the Scotsman Steps.

15 June 2018

TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ONE e


"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence and its only end."
(Benjamin Disraeli)

14 June 2018

TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY e

Is it? No... already? sigh... Thursday's here.


Several name changes for this hotel... currently The Balmoral. Nothing less than six hundred quid a night and add another twenty-five for breakfast... d'ya see the window cleaners?

13 June 2018

TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN e

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






















I was just desperate to get this male goldfinch in the Fudge's lens...

Through the double-glazing and the lens at the fullest stretch, as well as one of those moist atmospheric days that are unavoidable around here. It's amazing to get even these two poorling shots.

12 June 2018

TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN e

Shipping by...


The "Hebridean Princess", the one who passed the M106...

11 June 2018

TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN e

Monday's Critters


It's the season. Not a sharp shot, but no less cute!

10 June 2018

09 June 2018

TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN e

Saturday Symmetry



Looking over Waverley Station toward Princes Street Edinburgh. 

08 June 2018

TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN e



"Existence makes us all equal."
(Alice Walker)

06 June 2018

TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND TWELVE e

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



Before the buds...

05 June 2018

TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN e

Shipping by...



Remember the M106? I promised a duet - or perhaps pas de deux is the better description... or pas de bateaux?!

04 June 2018

TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND TEN e

Monday's Critters



The lambing pens

03 June 2018

TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND NINE e

SUNdays

Sunrise, early spring

02 June 2018

01 June 2018

TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN e

"From wonder into wonder, existence opens."
(Lao Tzu)