Thanks to Egidio for setting this week’s photo challenge. Egidio takes us out into the wild places of the US with his marvellous images illustrating the environments that recharge his batteries.
For myself nothing helps me reset more consistently than a trip down to the sea – just down to the Firth of Clyde. This involves a 20-30 minute drive depending on my chosen spot.
more imagesI’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.
Continue reading “How Wild is This?”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.
Continue reading “Lost Horizon”Thanks to Amanda for setting the Friendly Friday Photo Challenge this week a challenge called ‘Two Ways‘. Amanda’s looking for two presentations of the same thing – two different ways. Perhaps photographs taken of the same place at different times, or a single photograph processed in two different ways.
It’s true that when you take photographs you have choices of when to take, how to take it, how to process it and how to present it. Here are a selection of my images that, I hope, fit the brief.
More ImagesIf you’ve looked at the posts of my images, you may realise that I don’t travel too much. Reasons for that are too complicated to go into, but you will see that nearly all my images have been taken close to home in the south west of Scotland.
Read more – more imagesIt’s a place we often go to chill out and look at the sea. It’s over at the rocks behind Troon harbour – that’s Troon, best known for its championship golf course. We pass the harbour and stop in the small car park, looking out over the waves towards the Isle of Arran.
Read more – More ImagesA still evening and the sun is thinking of going down. Just a slight pink tinge to the far sky. It’s an ancient castle or rather the remains of a 16th century tower house built on the cliff at Greenan, near Ayr – and a scene of inter-clan fighting around 1600 AD.
Continue reading “Two Views of a Ruin”
It’s Saturday. The country park is busy; I get the last parking space. People are not abroad sunning themselves on beaches, or going en-masse to shopping malls: cinemas and sports clubs are shut. But they can come to the parks and many have done so.
I need space and so walk the quiet peripheral trails, looking for some natural compositions. Walking through the woods, lush green above; moving along the river: torrents from recent rains.
Continue reading “In the Deep Wood”
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