We saw a small white butterfly land in our garden. Very early in our year to see any butterfly, especially as the weather is unusually cold. And then the butterfly disappeared from sight. Where did it go?
Our daffodils and narcissi have been great this year. They flowered for a long time and now are looking a bit past it. All the petals are wilting. But look closely!
Continue reading “Orange Tip Butterflies”Responding to Tina’s challenge, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge – Taking Flight, though I’m a wee bit late here. But I remembered these two little propeller aircraft doing a superb air display down at Ayr beach during the Scottish Air Show.
What’s a beat-up Philadelphia taxi doing in Glasgow?
Was I lucky? I don’t know but back in 2011, I was wandering round Glasgow with my camera. It was a Saturday and had just dropped my wife off at her tutorial. And didn’t I just stumble on the making of ‘World War Z’? – the post-apocalyptic zombie action horror film starring Brad Pitt.
Continue reading “World War Z”So, here I am responding to Ann-Christine’s Lens-Artists Challenge – Striped and Checked.
I’m not doing well at getting new images at the moment so once again I’m falling back on my archives and even there finding very few ‘checks‘ – other than tartan. What else can I do but start with a couple of kilts? The hammer thrower above was taken at the Helensburgh Highland Games.
Continue reading “Checks and Stripes”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.
Read 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 imagesDuring our first lockdown back in the spring, the sun shone for weeks on end. Beautiful weather! It really took the edge off those difficult times. We could always get out for a quiet walk or tend to our small garden. In this our second lockdown — well, it’s November in Scotland — we’ve just had the wettest October for decades – and the clouds are still gathering.
Read more – more imagesGenerally, 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.
More ImagesWhen 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.
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