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 photosI believed that ‘ephemeral’ was a word that was something to do with ghosts – I don’t know where I picked that up from. However, Tina from the ‘Travels and Trifles’ blog, set me right with this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge around the word ‘Ephemeral’ which she explains means “lasting for a very short time”.
Continue reading “Fireworks”The sky is blue, the sea is calm, the air is pure. A heat mist obscures the distant shores. The temperature has risen – surprisingly so – unexpected for last April. Winter clothes are cast off. The scene sooths, uplifts. A day to be grateful.
Continue reading “Dreamy Day at the Coast”Found ourselves sitting in Burger King with rain hammering on the roof and streaming down the windows. Thankful for the refuge and some warm coffee.
Once the brutal downpour had expended its energy, we found the waterfront here at Port Glasgow quite deserted. After the storm this was indeed a peaceful place.
read more / more imagesLead image :-Nikon D7500 + Sigma 105mm f2.8 lens; taken at f6.3; 1/1000sec; ISO1600
I’ve been lucky to have joined my camera club’s outing to the Pinkston Watersports Park in Glasgow on a evening when avid kayakers were practicing their supreme skills in guiding their crafts through tumbling white water. It was a great opportunity to get close to sports men and women with the camera, certainly better than travelling to the great competitions that take place on more remote venues on rivers in the Scottish highlands.
read more / more imagesLead photo : At River Ayr Gorge, Failford:
Nikon D7500, Sigma 17-50mm F2.8; f8 1/60 sec; ISO100
Walking through the woods can be scary, and it’s more relaxing when there’s good light with sun shining through the branches. Still when I took the above image I’d already walked quite a distance and I felt quite on my own. For some reason I felt some unease and didn’t go much further.
Continue reading “Into the Woods”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.
This week I’m trying to pick out some of my all-time favourites in response to Tina’s Lens-Artists Challenge. And I should tell you why the are favourites.
I think in all of them I’ve felt I’ve managed to create something I was really pleased with. A number of them were surprises where a little drop of magic seemed to be caught. Like the bee on the globe flowers above, which I’d taken in quite low light and didn’t expect to draw anything out of the setting. And now it’s even the source material for the jazziBee logo.
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