04 March 2015

TAKE NINETEEN b

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...

03 March 2015

TAKE EIGHTEEN b

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;

02 March 2015

TAKE SEVENTEEN b

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!

01 March 2015

TAKE SIXTEEN b

SUNdays.

















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

28 February 2015

TAKE FIFTEEN b

Saturday Symmetry




Deep mid-winter brings short hours and dim days - yet colour emblazons the sky on some kind of death-wish machine at Princes Street Gardens German Fayre... I feared for the finials on Scott's monument!!!

27 February 2015

TAKE FOURTEEN b

"Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing... bravely face whatever it offers."
(Morihei Ueshiba)


26 February 2015

TAKE THIRTEEN b

Last Thursday - where it gets a little bit weird...




















A weary old stump in the Castle House gardens... attractive enough in its raw state, it 'polarised' up rather effectively in Fotor.

25 February 2015

TAKE TWELVE b

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



The common crow. Rascals they are.


Taken at Largs foreshore.