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.
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Leaf and Wood
One More Image“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
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.
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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.
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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.
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Generally, a nature shot focusses on a particular subject, perhaps a bird, an insect, or a flower. To get a good image, it’s best that the subject in sharp focus, and often the use of automatic camera focussing is essential.
But even if it is a sharp image, there are some other strategies to help ensure the viewer will not simply glimpse at it and move on to the next image, but instead to linger and examine the image more closely.
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When I left the Gallery of Modern Art that day (link), I ambled down to the Merchant City Festival. Always an exciting event in Glasgow with all sorts of entertainment spread over a two week extravaganza.
Read more – more imagesSmoke and Mirrors
Scotrail Tests New Flux Capacitor
‘Smoke and Mirrors’ is the theme for Amanda’s Friendly Friday Photo Challenge this week, and that makes me think of magic and illusion. The opening image above is magicked up using photo software, of course.
Read More – More ImagesRise and Fall
I rarely produce an image by combining photographs like this one. The two layered images are, of course, of the same aeroplane, taken at the Scottish Air Show not too long ago.
Continue reading “Rise and Fall”The Gallery Hideaway
When I read Leya’s Lens-Artists Challenge was to be about ‘My Hideaway’, I had to scratch my head. The main place I successfully hideaway is inside the covers of a good book, but I didn’t believe I could do justice with photographs of my books.
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