So here I am, back on-line again after a short illness – also recovered from the Euros!! – and things are about the same as they were before – feels restrictive despite recent changes. And so I’m grateful for Anne Saddler setting the Lens-Artists Challenge this week and her chosen topic, Black & White, is a favourite of mine. A subject I can get my teeth into.
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Green and Blue
Nature’s colours
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.
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An unusual aspect of a fallow deer resting, one of a herd in our local country park.
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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”Two Take Flight
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.
World War Z
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.
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Favourite Images from 2020
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.
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All Action
I’ve been lucky to have opportunities for sports action over the years. I don’t know if I’ll be doing so much sports photography in future – I have ideas of making changes – so I thought I’d put together some of my better action images to date.
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