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How Wild is This?

I’m responding to the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge and this week Dianne is saying ‘Let’s Get Wild!’ She’s talking about ‘Mother Nature untouched and untrammelled, allowed to get on with her work without human help or hindrance.’ Well there’s not much left of that in the UK with so many of our wild areas busy with tourists and all the facilities introduced to accommodate them. Even our wildest areas are ‘managed’. Our own Scottish hills have largely been cleared of the natural forest centuries ago and many other areas were taken over for forestry in the last century. Only now are we making moves to re-establish some of the original landscape.

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!

Lost Horizon

WE haven’t seen the coast for a couple of weeks due to our local restrictions. So when we could we drove up over the hill to a parking place where we full panoramic view over the Firth of Clyde. It was so clear and looked so amazing that no camera could do it justice.

One Way or Another

Thanks to Amanda for setting the Friendly Friday Photo Challenge this week a challenge called ‘Two Ways‘. Amanda’s looking for two presentations of the same thing – two different ways. Perhaps photographs taken of the same place at different times, or a single photograph processed in two different ways.

It’s true that when you take photographs you have choices of when to take, how to take it, how to process it and how to present it. Here are a selection of my images that, I hope, fit the brief.

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Focus on Nature

Generally, 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.

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Rise and Fall

I rarely produce an image by combining photographs like this one. The two layered images are, of course, of the same aeroplane, taken at the Scottish Air Show not too long ago.

Dreams of a Loch

If you’ve looked at the posts of my images, you may realise that I don’t travel too much. Reasons for that are too complicated to go into, but you will see that nearly all my images have been taken close to home in the south west of Scotland.

Startling Symmetry

The search for symmetry, and the emotional pleasure we derive when we find it, must help us make sense of the the seasons and the reliability of friendships.
Alan Lightman

In taking photographs, I more commonly seek to change out of a symmetrical view. I try mostly to get an angle on the subject and to achieve some flow through or around the image.

A Quiet Place

It’s a place we often go to chill out and look at the sea. It’s over at the rocks behind Troon harbour – that’s Troon, best known for its championship golf course. We pass the harbour and stop in the small car park, looking out over the waves towards the Isle of Arran.

Negative Space – a challenge

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge 114

Reacting to Amy’s Photo Challenge, I initially found myself a bit lost – Negative Space??? I do have a tendency to fill the frame, but nevertheless had a look through my back catalogue for images with negative space.