Two dog sculptures take up a position on a residential street – just a couple of streets away from Irvine Harbour. Seems an odd position, this is not a main thoroughfare. Why are they here? It’s a puzzle to me, but anyway they still bring delight.
Continue reading “The Twa Dogs”Nikon D7500 + Sigma f2.8 17-50mm @ 17mm ; f13; 1/125 sec; ISO100 – taken 8 April 2025.
I just wonder why the image a single tree has such an appeal for me?
This is my submission into Leanne Cole‘s “Monochrome Madness” for this week.
This week Ritva has set a challenge in the Lens-Artists series, to show minimalist photography in monochrome. It’s a great idea for a challenge and is the sort of photography that gets me thinking. I’ve taken one or two yesterday and also been searching my back catalogue for images that would fit the requirement.
So I’m looking for simple clean mono images with only a few elements that in some way have an aesthetic feel to them. I do like this idea.
more imagesNikon D7500 + Sigma 17-50mm @ 34mm ; f13; 1/100 sec; ISO160
Taken about a year ago when leaves were absent from the trees, when the sun was low in the heavens, and when it was not too chilly to venture out together for a little wander .
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 photosThis 33-foot-high stainless-steel sculpture at Port Glasgow is indeed a magnificent sight; a memorial to the centuries of shipbuilding on the Lower River Clyde and a means of honouring all those workers. It’s proper title is ‘The Shipbuilders of Port Glasgow’ but everyone calls them ‘The Skelpies’
Continue reading “The Skelpies”After the day’s toil
Here now on the water
Arms thrashing
Pulling with blades
Into the torrent
I 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”Just a few mono portraits of farm animals, in connection with this weeks Monochrome Madness challenge on Farm Animals hosted by Elke on her pictures imperfect blog. Thanks Elke!
more imagesJust off the coast at Ayr, there’s this wreck that attracts photographers. It wouldn’t attract anyone else. A combination of good weather, sundown and a low tide that reveals more of the wreckage can bring them out.
Continue reading “Kaffir Wreck”
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