Archive for June, 2010
Ruthven Barracks
We took part in the Scottish bikeathon in aid of Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research today. The route started in Kingussie and took us past Ruthven Barracks. These are the brooding ruins of a barracks where soldiers were based to patrol the Highlands after the Forty-Five to ensure that there were no further uprisings. They look […]
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Poppies
Still as part of the regain from yesterday’s fiasco, I am catching up on the pictures that I lost of the poppies. I do like the papery petals and blowsy nature of these big flowers. The top one was a shot from the E-520; the lower image from the GF1. Both images were essentially treated […]
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Sunlight through poppies
A bit of a disaster last night prevented me from uploading a picture to this blog. For the first time ever I had a card corrupted so that I lost all my images. Then combined with SmugMug unavailability it all got too difficult. This moring I went out and reshot some of the photographs that […]
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Cycling Home
It was a beautiful summer evening on the Broomielaw next to the Clyde in Glasgow. Lots of people were sunbathing on the new pedestrianised area: a good evening to be cycling home: A GX200 image, this was converted from raw in RPP and imported as a jpeg to Aperture, where all subsequent adjustments were carried […]
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Waiting for the train
Waiting for the train at Covent Garden tube station, she seemed somehow anxious. Worried about missing it, or not getting to where she wanted to? Who knows, but for a short moment she stood still enough for a slow exposure to capture her in the difficult lighting underground. This GX200 shot was shot at 35 […]
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Busking
Busking is a long and honourable tradition in London. However, I have rarely heard or seen such an adept performance as that of this quartet playing classical music in Covent Garden. They expressed a real sense of fun, for example playing Ravel’s ‘Bolero’ while parodying the dance. This is not easy to do if you […]
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Iris
After the disappointment of the irises in our garden we found ourselves in Edinburgh and rather on the spur of the moment decided to visit the Royal Botanic Gardens there. I hadn’t visited the gardens for well over a decade and it was a real trip down memory lane. However, their irises had stood up […]
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Battered by rain
Irises are lovely flowers and I got up this morning full of good intentions to photograph the ones that are just starting to bloom in our garden. Unfortunately, although the light was perfect – a dull diffused light which didn’t cast strong shadows – the flowers weren’t. A heavy rain squall had passed through in […]
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Leaden Sky
The contrast between a dark sky and a lighter foreground always creates interesting conditions. This image was taken on an evening walk up Station Road in Gateside. The sky contrasted against the vivid yellow of the oilseed rape field. In fact, they are really contrasting blocks of colour more than a detailed landscape. The major […]
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Elephant Parade
London was full of elephants when I visited. Sometimes they were lone tuskers, sometimes they were in small herds.y were ubiquitous. From standing by the Thames, through the famous shopping streets of London to the heart of Covent Garden the Sadly they were only artistic models, decorated and sponsored to draw attention to the plight […]
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One Picture, One Day 