Nature Spot
Cinnibar Moth caterpillars look like tiny hazard warning tapes sending a signal to birds that they’re not for eating. They don’t taste nice and contain poisons.
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Greenock Customs House
Monochrome Monday
Wouldn’t you like to work in such an impressive, stately building?
I created this image about a year ago. It is really three photographs merged together as a panorama wrapped round a cylinder. A version taking away any perspective is shown later.
When Black Lives Matter hit the headlines again last month, I looked back on this image in a different light.
Continue reading “Greenock Customs House”Victorian Gothic
“There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Some of the amazing Victorian architecture on the Roseneath Peninsula, Argyll and Bute.
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Common Darter Dragonfly
Back to nature
A real predator of the animal kingdom. This dragonfly is, indeed, quite common in the UK. I’ve heard it said that their faces look like a smiley clown but at the same time, they are quite vicous predators too. I saw one just drop unexpectedly to the ground and then saw it had taken hold of a sizeable spider, just like a hawk landing on its prey.
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Nature spot
I came across these black caterpillars a few days ago, all clustered together on a patch of nettles – not the most attractive organisms either. I didn’t know what they were – I mean which butterfly or moth species they belonged to.
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Monochrome Monday
Robin Flapping
I’d love to say I intended this shot, but I was simply taking a portrait shot in very dull light when the wee bird took off. It flies in the face of the ‘rule’ that every nature shot should be as sharp as possible right across the bird. But it gives me ideas about what can be done with a slowish shutter speed to add a bit of dynamism.
Another Robin photo
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