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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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Spotted in the Park

An unusual aspect of a fallow deer resting, one of a herd in our local country park.

Orange Tip Butterflies

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!

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.

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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.

The Geometry of Sound

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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.

Walking Ways

Just walking yesterday

with some sunshine!

Some light on my walking ways.

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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.

Bracken in Winter

Well, the sun is out today … at least a little, but recently we’ve had some dark days. The days are shorter nearing the solstice. Even the recent news about vaccines hasn’t lifted the mood much. And my outing to the country park didn’t produce much in the way of photographic opportunities either. I still saw something I hadn’t seen there before – a large grey heron gliding down the centre of the narrow river staying one metre off the water surface with barely a flap of its wings, and disappearing round the bend. It appeared all too suddenly and much too fast to capture.