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An Evening at the Coast

Well, we haven’t been able to go off on holiday for a long time now (there’s just reasons for that – it can’t be helped). Most of my photos are taken within 25 miles of home. But even then I can still escape the norm for a while. This week a group of friends and myself took our cameras down to an old haunt on the Ayrshire coast – to the village of Dunure.

Here it is in Black and White

So here I am, back on-line again after a short illness – also recovered from the Euros!! – and things are about the same as they were before – feels restrictive despite recent changes. And so I’m grateful for Anne Saddler setting the Lens-Artists Challenge this week and her chosen topic, Black & White, is a favourite of mine. A subject I can get my teeth into.

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How Wild is This?

I’m responding to the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge and this week Dianne is saying ‘Let’s Get Wild!’ She’s talking about ‘Mother Nature untouched and untrammelled, allowed to get on with her work without human help or hindrance.’ Well there’s not much left of that in the UK with so many of our wild areas busy with tourists and all the facilities introduced to accommodate them. Even our wildest areas are ‘managed’. Our own Scottish hills have largely been cleared of the natural forest centuries ago and many other areas were taken over for forestry in the last century. Only now are we making moves to re-establish some of the original landscape.

Green and Blue

Nature’s colours

What with the blue of sky and green of leaves, blue and green are common acquaintances in nature. The view of my regular lockdown walk down the right hand side of the river (above) was taken on evening last week. But I looking through my archives and find some other examples of natural blues and greens.

Like this Common Blue butterfly. It’s not long emerged from its chrysalis and is sitting here upside down on a reed stem taking in the heat of the morning sun.

A small butterfly but the male is so blue and when you see them fluttering by you feel there’s something magical happening.

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Spotted in the Park

An unusual aspect of a fallow deer resting, one of a herd in our local country park.

Orange Tip Butterflies

We saw a small white butterfly land in our garden. Very early in our year to see any butterfly, especially as the weather is unusually cold. And then the butterfly disappeared from sight. Where did it go?

Our daffodils and narcissi have been great this year. They flowered for a long time and now are looking a bit past it. All the petals are wilting. But look closely!

Two Take Flight

Responding to Tina’s challenge, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge – Taking Flight, though I’m a wee bit late here. But I remembered these two little propeller aircraft doing a superb air display down at Ayr beach during the Scottish Air Show.

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World War Z

What’s a beat-up Philadelphia taxi doing in Glasgow?

Was I lucky? I don’t know but back in 2011, I was wandering round Glasgow with my camera. It was a Saturday and had just dropped my wife off at her tutorial. And didn’t I just stumble on the making of ‘World War Z’? – the post-apocalyptic zombie action horror film starring Brad Pitt.

The Geometry of Sound

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Checks and Stripes

So, here I am responding to Ann-Christine’s Lens-Artists Challenge – Striped and Checked.

I’m not doing well at getting new images at the moment so once again I’m falling back on my archives and even there finding very few ‘checks‘ – other than tartan. What else can I do but start with a couple of kilts? The hammer thrower above was taken at the Helensburgh Highland Games.