If I can just squeeze this in. It’s been a difficult week, I’ve been tired out but now coming back to myself. The subject ‘Wings’ was set by Beth of the Wandering Dawgs blog, who hosts the Lens-Artists Challenge #376.
The subject took me back a number of years to a visit to the red kite feeding station at Bellymack Hill Farm in the Galloway region. There every afternoon, food is put out and dozens of red kites appear for their daily.
More photosRain-soaked raptor stands
Tethered to his perch
Calm, content
Awaiting his flight time
It may not be the biggest rock in the world but it’s the only volcanic island you pass on the sea voyage from Belfast to Glasgow. When all those Irish immigrants came to Scotland before, during and after the Great Famine, Ailsa Craig was always the marker of the halfway point.
Whenever we had a family day-out at the coast, we came over the hill beyond Maybole village and our young eyes were awed by the sight. “Look! there’s Ailsa Craig!” was the cry, but my Dad said “It’s ‘Paddy’s Milestone’ – the nickname for the rock dating back to the times of those early Irish travellers.
Continue reading “Big Rock”Last week, I tried to cover symmetry and show some images that showed this reflection about an axis. Now I’ve been prompted By Donna at Wind Kisses blog to consider Asymmetry. Well, I know one thing is that such images shouldn’t be symmetrical but should despite that show some balance.
more imagesSymmetry – the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other across a line, a plane or around an axis.
Sofia of photographias blog challenges us to show images that illustrate symmetry …..and more than that those images which show how symmetry is “an important tool to compose strong and appealing photos”.
Continue reading “Symmetry”(from Oct 2016)
Down on the rocks near Troon harbour, I looked for seabirds – anything at all. I could see eider ducks, oystercatchers, cormorants and gulls – plenty. Then looking back into the sunlight, I just spotted a little movement on the flat rocks. A family of four little Ringed Plovers were ‘coorying doon’ out of the wind behind a wee ridge. The strong sun behind them wasn’t going to give me a good shot, so I moved in a great half circle round to get the light directly on to them.
“And here they are!
“Bringing them into this world wasn’t exactly easy. Remember, we had to start back at the end of winter. Well, that bit at least was fun. My bristling feather display was really something else, wasn’t it?
Continue reading “Work in Progress”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.
More imagesMy 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.
Read more – more imagesSo, 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.
Continue reading “Making my Day Unique”
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