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Favourite Images from 2020

A New Year! A fresh start! – Well, I feel it’ll take a bit longer but we can all hope for an improvement in our circumstances as 2021 progresses. I wish you all peace, prosperity and good health for the coming year. While the last year has been hard, I’m very clear that others have had a truly dreadful time and I feel I’ve been very lucky.

Walking Ways

Just walking yesterday

with some sunshine!

Some light on my walking ways.

Images below

All Action

I’ve been lucky to have opportunities for sports action over the years. I don’t know if I’ll be doing so much sports photography in future – I have ideas of making changes – so I thought I’d put together some of my better action images to date.

Lost Horizon

WE haven’t seen the coast for a couple of weeks due to our local restrictions. So when we could we drove up over the hill to a parking place where we full panoramic view over the Firth of Clyde. It was so clear and looked so amazing that no camera could do it justice.

Leaf and Wood

“A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn’t it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?”
Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

One More Image

The Smallest Ever Fire Engine

Amanda challenges us to come up with our version on photos of Red and Green for this week’s Friendly Friday Challenge.

I look through my files and trust me to find something different – I know it’s not a seasonal choice but I hope a red fire engine on a green lawn will count ok.

And at the time I noted down the story of the said vehicle and I retell this below for your interest/amusement. (However, if you can’t be bothered, I won’t be offended).

Bracken in Winter

Well, the sun is out today … at least a little, but recently we’ve had some dark days. The days are shorter nearing the solstice. Even the recent news about vaccines hasn’t lifted the mood much. And my outing to the country park didn’t produce much in the way of photographic opportunities either. I still saw something I hadn’t seen there before – a large grey heron gliding down the centre of the narrow river staying one metre off the water surface with barely a flap of its wings, and disappearing round the bend. It appeared all too suddenly and much too fast to capture.

Swan Sculptures

My last post about the Long-tailed Duck, that unexpected visitor to our local park, led me to recall one of my earliest visits to the park pond with a decent DSLR camera.

Making my Day Unique

Nature Spot – linked to Friendly Friday

So, just yesterday, my good friend Donald (not that one, another one) said “Why don’t we go to the pond at the park and take some bird photos?…… socially distanced, of course”. It may not sound a truly attractive suggestion but in the middle of lock-down when we’re not supposed to go out of our local area, it seemed a good idea just to get out the house.

Whilst Walking

This week I reckon I took the road less travelled. Usually I head off down to the river, through the woods towards the castle and the fields beyond. So this week I headed in the other direction. I found myself walking down the wee roads that pass by garages and back gardens towards the park.